Sunway partners with EU on sustainability initiatives

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Sunway Group and the Delegation of the European Union to Malaysia entered into a strategic partnership to advance a broad range of joint sustainability initiatives.  This landmark collaboration between the diplomatic mission of the world’s largest trading bloc and one of Southeast Asia’s leading conglomerates marks another significant milestone in both entities’ commitment towards a net zero future.   WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Sunway Group and the delegation of the European Union to Malaysia have entered into a strategic

00:11partnership to advance a broad range of joint sustainability initiatives.

00:23The diplomatic mission of the world's largest trading bloc and representatives of one of

00:27Southeast Asia's leading conglomerates inked both entities' commitment towards a net-zero

00:33future at the landmark collaboration ceremony on Monday.

00:40Delegation of the EU to Malaysia Charged Affairs and Interim, Timo Guzman said the EU is glad

00:46to partner with Sunway Group to raise awareness on sustainable practices in Malaysia.

00:51We have worked with Sunway Group on a number of occasions over the past years and it has

00:58deeply impressed us how the Sunway Group in many cases has found ways to transform day-to-day

01:08practices, day-to-day operations within its scope into sustainable operations.

01:16And what the Sunway Group is doing with Desamentari, which is basically only a stone's throw away

01:23from where we are right now, is a good example for that.

01:27Sunway Group Executive Director of Chairman's Office Ong Pang Yen added that the partnership

01:32between the EU and Sunway reflects the spirit and importance of the United Nations Sustainable

01:38Development Goals, or UNSDG, in particular SDG 17 Partnership for the Goals.

01:47Financing SDG is identified as one of the critical areas if we are to move the needles in SDG.

01:56Can you imagine who wants to fund all these things?

01:59Corporations can't do it all.

02:01But thankfully, I must say, there are a lot of like-minded corporations and institutions around

02:06so we don't have to do this all by ourselves.

02:09We have to join hands so that we can achieve more together.

02:13EU delegation SDG 17 very clearly states developed countries must help developing countries because

02:20they have developed for so many years.

02:23That is their, I won't say obligations or responsibility, but that is very much something

02:28that we would appreciate from countries, rich countries, to help us reach this interim gap.

02:36Guzman and Ong signed a letter of intent to formalise this partnership at a signing ceremony

02:40in Sunway City, Kuala Lumpur.

02:43It was witnessed by Sunway Group CEO of Digital and Strategic Investments, Evan Chia and Embassy

02:48of Belgium in Malaysia, Deputy Head of Mission Perik Masol.

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