{"id":1765,"date":"2025-10-16T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2025-10-20T05:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T03:30:58","slug":"from-osaka-to-kuala-lumpur-360-sustainability-in-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/from-osaka-to-kuala-lumpur-360-sustainability-in-action\/","title":{"rendered":"From Osaka to Kuala Lumpur: 360\u00b0 Sustainability in Action"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Returning from Expo 2025 Osaka, I joined a full week of sustainability and innovation events in Kuala Lumpur\u2014IGEM, KL Sustainable Summit, and Malaysia\u2013Japan Environment Week\u2014where regional leaders and ERIA partners advanced actionable strategies on energy, circular economy, and urban governance. These engagements underscored ASEAN\u2019s growing capacity to turn sustainability dialogue into measurable impact.
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Fresh from #Expo2025<\/a> Osaka \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5, I engaged in a dense cluster of#sustainability<\/a> and #innovation<\/a> events at #KLCC<\/a>, Kuala Lumpur \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfe: #IGEM<\/a> 2025, the inaugural KL Sustainable Summit (#KLSS<\/a> 2025), and the #Malaysia<\/a> \ud83c\uddf2\ud83c\uddfe\u2011#Japan<\/a> \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5 Environment Week, which fosters both strategic and technical #cooperation<\/a> between the two nations.

The #ASEAN<\/a> Energy Business Forum 2025 (#AEBF<\/a>\u201125) and #NEEC<\/a> 2025 brought ministers, policymakers, and industry leaders together on actionable #energy<\/a> strategies.
Alongside, #ERIA<\/a> \ud83c\uddef\ud83c\uddf5-led initiatives are shaping regional approaches to marine plastic mitigation, while #circular<\/a> economy and waste valorization discussions highlighted cross-national #collaboration<\/a> and innovation.

From my expertise, the Mayor of Kuala Lumpur Dr Maimunah Mohd Sharif<\/a>, former Director at UN-Habitat (United Nations Human Settlements Programme)<\/a> \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf3, is attempting a \u201cWalk the Talk\u201d shift in municipal sustainability #leadership<\/a>\u2014performative in ambition. Beyond KL, she shapes #ASEAN<\/a> urban agendas through the #ASEAN<\/a> Governors and Mayors Forum, amplifying #Malaysia<\/a>\u2019s regional leadership, with outcomes that will require careful #monitoring<\/a> to confirm tangible #impact<\/a>.

This week showcased 360\u00b0 navigation across policy, #governance<\/a>, and #innovation<\/a>, reinforcing how dialogue, #strategy<\/a>, and action converge to create measurable #sustainability<\/a> impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Returning from Expo 2025 Osaka, I joined a full week of sustainability and innovation events in Kuala Lumpur\u2014IGEM, KL Sustainable Summit, and Malaysia\u2013Japan Environment Week\u2014where regional leaders and ERIA partners advanced actionable strategies on energy, circular economy, and urban governance. These engagements underscored ASEAN\u2019s growing capacity to turn sustainability dialogue into measurable impact.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1766,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[285,277,347,223,180,331,110],"class_list":["post-1765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-digital-cities-en","tag-asean","tag-eria","tag-igem","tag-innovation-en","tag-japan","tag-kuala-lumpur","tag-malaysia","grid-sizer","latest_post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1767,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1765\/revisions\/1767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kerizconsulting.eu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}