Malaysia: Report on Summary of Information on How REDD+ Safeguards are Addressed and Respected

Malaysia understood ‘addressed’ as law, regulations or policy that will ensure REDD+ safeguards are considered while respected refers to how these safeguards are applied when REDD+ activities are implemented. For Malaysia, the REDD+ activities and safeguards are complimentary. With this understanding, Malaysia divided the Cancun safeguards into three broad categories as follows:
a. Governance – National and Sub national responsibilities
b. Social – Sub national obligation with monitoring at National level
c. Environmental – National and Sub national responsibilities
The approach REDD+ SIS in a practical way, where we first understanding the complexity of forest issues, the jurisdiction, assessing the forestry, biodiversity environmental, climate change and other related laws and policies. There are 20 Federal laws and about 30 States laws covering from environmental, trade of endangered species, social and well being of workers. At least seven policies are directly related to the Cancun safeguards. Then we matched these with the requirements for REDD+ SIS and tried to fill the gaps.
Download the report: https://redd.unfccc.int/uploads/2_220_malaysia_redd_2B_sis.pdf