27 February 2025
In the 4th Webinar Series on Climate Change Projection for Disaster Risk Reduction in Asia Pacific Region
with Malaysia, on 27 February 2025, Dato' Ir Mohd Zaki bin Mat Amin (Director General, National Water
Research Institute Malaysia) reported that by 2100, climate change in Malaysia is projected with increase:
(i) annual surface temperature between 1.85 -2.08 ,
(ii) annual rainfall between 14%-25%, and
(iii) sea level between 0.71m-0.74m.
These figures imply that if Malaysia does nothing to mitigate climatechange, its regions will experience
more occurrences of drying rivers(e.g., Bukit Merah in February 2022),pluvial flooding (e.g.,Selangor,
December 2022), and fluvial flooding (e.g., Batu Pahat,August 2021).
In view of this projection, other speakers from Malaysia sharedinformation on some ongoing initiatives. Mr Ambun Dindang
(DeputyDirector General, Malaysian Meteorological Department) said
that his department considered climate change projection data in monitoringand forecasting severe weather due to
monsoon surges. Ms Lavanya Rama Iyer (Director of Policy and Climate Change, WWF-Malaysia) said that
the World-Wide Fund for Nature in Malaysia has integrated climateresilience and governance into their programmes.
Gs. Dr Norfashareena
binti Muhamad (Head, Southeast Asia Disaster Prevention Research Initiative) said that their disaster databases
integrated climate change data and made it available for local scale application.
Furthermore, Dato' Ir Mohd Zaki bin Mat Amin said that the Government of Malaysia expects to release
two relevant documents in 2025 - the Climate Change Act of Malaysia and the Malaysia National Adaptation
Plan (MyNAP).
Members of the Area Theme 4 of the Advanced Study of Climate Change Projection (SENTAN) also
spoke in the webinar to explain the project,the technologies and tools, and the studies on climate change
projections. The speakers included Prof. MORI Nobuhito of Kyoto University, Dr NAKAEGAWA
Toshiyuki of Japan Meteorological Agency, Dr MURATA Akihiko of Japan Meteorological Agency,
Mr MORI Noriyuki of International Center for Water Hazard and Risk Management, and Prof.
TACHIKAWA Yasuto of Kyoto University. Dr IKEDA Makoto and Dr Gerald Potutan,
both from ADRC, co-facilitated the event.
(Reference)
4th Webinar Series:
https://www.adrc.asia/sentanpro/202502/webinar04.html</p
SENTAN Program:
https://www.jamstec.go.jp/sentan/eng/
(2025/03/06 15:40)