ROUNDTABLE 3:
SUSTAINABLE ECO-RESOURCES &
BIODIVERSITY MANAGEMENT
Venue: Tun Sri Lanang II
Convenor / Discourse Leader:
Dato’ Dr Dionysius S.K. Sharma
Executive Director & Chief Executive Officer, WWF-Malaysia
&
Ms Rili Djohani
Founding Board Member & Executive Director, Coral Triangle Centre (CTC),
Discussants:
•Datuk Dr Beatrice Beth Baikan
Environmental Advisor & Consultant for the Sabah Palm Oil Industrial Cluster / Managing Director, Sustainable Environment Planning &
Management Consultants Sdn. Bhd. & Board Member, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS), Malaysia
•Mr Darrel Webber
Director-General, Roundtable in Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), Malaysia
•Mr Romeo B. Trono
Country Executive Director, Conservation International - Philippines
Recommendations
keywords: sustainable community livelihoods, food security, resource-use management
1. CTI Platform
2. Good national and
international framework /
guideline
• Need for more interactive roundtable dialogue
sessions catered to specific stakeholders
• Implementation of solutions must be in accordance
to ‘weighting’ based on competing stakeholder
interests
• Recognise the need for adaptation in designing
sustainable solutions
• Recognise the need to balance development &
environmental conservation efforts
• Learn from RSPO platform / experience
• Recognise transboundary issues, needs trans-national
partnerships
• Need to recognise linkages between issues and
solutions
• Consider case studies for best practices to be adopted in
other sites (science & technological & management
innovations)
Recommendations
keywords: sustainable community livelihoods, food security, resource-use management
3. Climate Change Adaptation
• Need to have a dedicated CCA Platform for dialogues
• Identify & include climate change resilience issues
4. Business Models for Remote
Islands
• Utilise & apply for existing “sustainable funding stream”
through identification of issues and link innovative
solutions from different sectors; e.g. carbon trading, energy
saving solutions, sustainable protection & eco-tourism,
good marine and coastal spatial planning
5. Education & Awareness
campaigns
• CTI Campaign - Current program for the
development of an interactive CTI website – to
increase public awareness – fund raising activities /
opportunities – events - etc...
• Need for more capacity building
• Need for more research / data & information for
better decision-making
• Undertake project for sites “zero pollution – very
polluted – clean environment” as case studies