Green Practices Guideline for Services Sector

AGRICULTURE Malaysian Organic Scheme (SOM) or Malaysia Organic (MyOrganic) is a certification that recognises farms that practice good agricultural practices and organic farming based on Malaysian Standard MS 1529:2015. IMPACT: 253 farms have been certified with MyOrganic certification with an area of 2,045.60 hectares. Emission avoidance: 114.77 Gg CO 2 eq SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF FOREST Forest certification scheme that allow the annual allowable cut in the Permanent Reserved Forest (PRF) is capped at 85 m 3 /ha for the period of Tenth & Eleventh Malaysia Plan. IMPACT: Malaysian Criteria and Indicators for Forest Management Certification 2001. Emission avoidance: 20,307.50 Gg CO 2 eq CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY AND ECOSYSTEM SERVICES RELEVANT INITIATIVE: Malaysia’s Protected Area (PA) Network TARGET: Increase the Protected Area to at least 20% by 2025. IMPACT: Protected Area increased from 2.757 to 3.171 million ha between 2014 and 2016 FOREST ENRICHMENT PROGRAMMES AIMS: • Improve degraded forest sequestration capacity • Enhance connectivity between forests through two distinct initatives EXAMPLES: • Central Forest Spine (CFS) Programme in Peninsular Malaysia • Heart of Borneo (HoB) Programme in Sabah and Sarawak 17 GREEN PRACTICES GUIDELINE FOR SERVICES SECTOR