IN the heart of Kuala Lumpur’s busiest precinct, thousands of delegates stream through Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre weekly, wrote a columnist in The Star media.
While the public sees grand exhibitions and global summits, a quieter transformation is unfolding behind the scenes: a shift from scale to sustainability.
Under its general manager John Burke, the centre has evolved from simply tracking waste to embedding environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles into its core operations, as well as coming up with a long-term climate roadmap stretching to 2050.
“We were always tracking waste and energy,” the column quoted Burke. “The difference now is that sustainability is embedded into how we operate.”
The centre has tracked waste, water and energy consumption since it opened in 2005.
However, Burke admitted that in the past, it was more about monitoring than implementing change.
Read the rest of the column piece here.
