A Call to Action by the Penang State Government to Embrace Sustainable Development Goals
By Laurence Loh
November 2018 LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
In light of the unprecedented environmental challenges faced by Planet Earth (the UN says Climate Genocide is coming and that the planet has only until 2030 to stem catastrophic climate change), two critical initiatives by the Penang state government should have made the front pages. The first was articulated by the mayor of the Penang Island City Council, Dato’ Yew Tung Seang, in his speech at the “Towards Zero Carbon City” seminar held on September 26 – that the state’s...
Laurence Loh
is an amply awarded architect whose most noted project is the world-renowned Cheong Fatt Tze Mansion in Penang, which won the Unesco Asia-Pacific Heritage Awards in 2000 for the “Most Excellent Project”. In 2008 his restoration of Merdeka Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s Stadium of Independence, was conferred the Unesco “Award of Excellence” and his restoration of Suffolk House in Penang, the only surviving Anglo-Indian Georgian mansion in South-East Asia, was accorded the Unesco “Award of Distinction”.
