Kota Kinabalu: Adverse impacts of climate change on Sabah include reduced rice, palm oil, latex yields, decline catch in fisheries, prolonged drought, displacing people, increases in natural disasters, diseases, heat stress, reduced habitat quality, species extinction, and surge in electricity power demand.
About 100 participants heard this from a presentation by Forever Sabah, an NGO supportive of Sabah’s transition to a diversified, equitable, circular economy.
The audience comprised members and representatives from various nature-related NGOs in Sabah and individual conservationists and grant providers including supporters from Brunei Darussalam thronged Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) on Aug 28 to attend the first ‘Sabah Nature Gathering’ hosted by its Borneo Tourism Research Centre (BTRC).
