Climate Conferencing at the Malaysian Parliament.

It seems like the oscars of the climate civil society in ASEAN, with Parliamentarians, Civil Society, Think Tanks and Academics brain storming ways to integrate climate thinking into policy participation.

Nadia from Klima Action raised a powerful point.

It was great to meet old friends from the civil society as well as Leader of the Opposition in Singapore, Mr. Pritam Singh, ex NMP Anthea Ong among others.

As a stakeholder engagement specialist, the forum itself is the message. Wicked problems are inherently Multi stakeholder, and elected politicians have more pressing elections to win at intervals. Climate matters when constituents reel under a flood or a heatstroke and agrarian patterns change and lead to job losses.

Climate financing, the topic of my PhD was raised again and again, as climate resilient infrastructure needs money and money moves things.

‘This is the most political band in Malaysia because it asks to remember’- Eddin Khoo, 11th July 2024 during his jazz rendition at Simply Jazz, KL

A sublime evening of music and memory, as if the performance is an act of keeping an idea of Malaya alive, a pre May 13th 1969 one?

The song had Merdeka Bridge in Singapore, it used to be there yet is remembered through songs and these performances. It is a poignant register of history, a sonic one.

A music performance which is an act of remembering and of resistance. Mantap!