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ABOUT THE CONFERENCE
Asia , as the world's largest manufacturing hub, is emerging as the nexus in promoting green technologies and eco products.
¡®Green Economies' , are being launched by many countries, whereby policies, investments, and spending are restructured and reallocated towards the reconfiguration of businesses and infrastructures to deliver incremental returns on capital investments while simultaneously reducing greenhouse gas emissions, waste pollutions, natural resource consumptions, and social inequalities.
UNEP's Global Green New Deal outlined a series of policies to revive the global economy by addressing these issues: energy conservation, carbon reduction, eco-friendly infrastructure, information, and technology developments, and natural resource protection.
The Malaysian government, through the National Green Technology Policy has identified Green Technology as the driving force for the acceleration and promotion of its Green Growth Low Carbon economy.
Green Technology will ¡°facilitate the development of knowledge¡.. and a dream that one day we can live in a clean, healthy, and high quality environment, where cities, townships, and communities are built on the fundamentals of Green Technology.¡± (Prime Minister of Malaysia )
The Green Technology and Products Conference, in recognizing this worldwide trend, is hosting the region's largest Green Technology event bringing in together 600 participants and renowned local and international experts to discuss Green Technology policies and strategies, while promoting the Green Technology and Products Objectives to:
- Create awareness of the importance of Green Technology, Eco-Products, and Services for national green growth;
- Provide a forum for the dissemination of R&D findings and applications of Green Technology;
- Create and provide business-to-business opportunities in Green Technology and Green Purchasing;
- Generate market demand for Green Technology and Products through the promotion of green purchasing and values;
- Promote Malaysia as the regional hub for Green Technology.
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