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Triple Bottom Lines assessments ensure Sustainable Development
will be reachable. Triple
Bottom lines focuses on aspects of environment, economics and
social. Sustainable development
are required to ensure a country, nations and the earth growth
in term of economics, peoples
knowledge, development in term of infrastructure, buildings and
even information technologies
are reachable without harming the environment and maintaining
the biodiversity for our future
generations. Current environmental issues such as Global
Warming, sudden changes of weather,
rise in the sea level and frequency of natural disaster such as
flood occurring are in the alarming
rates which are being caused by uncontrolled and unsustainable
development.
Sustainable development should include a cleaner environment,
sustained level of economic,
perfect balance for society growth, reduction in the waste
production and pollution, where the
natural resources and biodiversity should be protected. Even it
seems to be something impossible
to be done in real life, but with proper knowledge, planning,
management and control.
Development in all aspect can be sustainable.
Sustainable Development objectives are to maintain the
biodiversity, natural environment, air
and water quality, plants and animals species for our future
generations where all aspects can
develop and grow. Sustainable Development also focuses on
reduction on the usage of energy,
reduction on waste and pollution. Green Building requirements
and standards are being
developed to make building development more sustainable.
Environmental Impact Assessment
and management plan are required to ensure sustainable
development is reachable forconstruction, plantation and mining
activities. All those are done to ensure the objectives of
sustainable development can be reached.
Lots of development, either on going or future planning is not
sustainable at all. Huge plantations
are being done, without the proper concern and balance between
environment, economics and
social aspects. Thousands of hectares of land are being
exploited and converted into Oil Palm
Plantation in Sarawak, where Oil Palm production had become one
of the main factors to
determine the economic status of Sarawak. Even with
environmental Impact Assessment (EIA)
being done, the impacts towards the biodiversity and the
environment are either overlooked or
covered so the huge plantation project can still continue.
Entire world are moving towards Sustainable Development and
greener building and designs.
Changes in any aspects require time for implementation and
adaptation. Society in huge require
time for adaptation to the new requirements and ideas. Lots of
architects and engineers had
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started to in cooperate green building technologies and
understanding in their design. Slowly,
Sarawak is moving towards sustainable development.
Sectors and industries like energy supply in Sarawak are still
not sustainable. Sarawak Energy
Sendirian Berhad still use coal power plant to produce
electricity to some main areas in Sarawak.
In Miri, gases are being used to produce electricity. Burning of
natural gas and coal are not
sustainable at all, even with the increasing number of
hydroelectric dams being built in Sarawak,
the energy produced from each of the working dams are still
insufficient to produce the energy
required by Sarawak. Dams constructions are not sustainable
also, as dams require a very huge
area to hold the water, lots of biodiversity and natural
habitats for lots of forest living things are
being destroyed in the process of building dams.
In Sarawak, the developments of bio-diesel are still in the
research stages, where lots of
Universities had researchers working full time to produce a
sustainable bio-diesel. Bio-diesel is
one of the solutions to reach sustainable development.
Recycling, reuse and reduce activities in Sarawak, are not that
common yet as most people will
only recycle materials which fetch high price such as aluminium
and metals, while low pricing
materials such as paper are not really being recycled properly.
Usages of plastic bags are still
very common for Sarawakians, even with numerous educations,
exposure and free
environmental friendly woven bags are given by lots of huge
shopping complexes, government
and non-government agencies, but it is still not widely
practiced by most Sarawakians.
