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By increasing environmental initiatives and implementing environmental damage tariffs we can create a more environmental friendly economy that benefits business and population.

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1.  Shamiha Khadija Saan (0327340)
2. Zhang ShiYue (0336207)
3. Zhang YiDan ( 0333625)
4. ZHAOLINGMAN（0341230）

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Environmental initiatives impact on Malaysia's economic growth and business sustainability.

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As we are amid a pandemic, the government is slowly descending into a debt crisis with public deficits by funding healthcare and wellbeing development where such environmentally-friendly initiative sustainable practice may fund the present and future fiscal expenses of Malaysia. In the past and presently Malaysia has faced a cluster of environmental issues which includes the popular topic of transnational haze, contamination calamity in Johor, and illegal deforestation or emission from vehicle sources. Medical health experts have explained that respiratory diseases develop through environmental pollution factors. According to the WHO(World Health Organization), a reputable agency of the UN(United Nation) who are in control of the international public health has stated that nine out ten people all over the world breathe polluted air and have wheezing issues.

Comparing Malaysia’s attitude towards the environment with other ASEAN, Asia-Pacific or neighboring country using the measure of EPI(Environmental Protection Index), Malaysia has significantly scored low coming in 68th position worldwide and 6th in the neighboring zone with a score of 47.9 while the neighboring country like Brunei and Singapore has scored 54.8 and 58.1 respectively. The comparison between the neighboring countries is significantly low and It's not appropriate to compare the European or developed country's environment quality with Malaysia as they place higher importance on their environment protection since they spend 1.6 percent of their government spending compared to Malaysia only 0.7 percent as seen in the article reference and the location of their country. Whilst the EU countries are much more economically developed to spend such amount on the environment.

Another fact to take account is that Malaysia has taken great initiatives in the past such as a ban on single-use plastic, Smoking in public areas, and encouraging CSR of MNC to implement environmentally friendly initiatives such as water-wastage or energy conservation. However, Malaysia is also heavily bounded by its privatized or fuel/oil, rubber, and private industries where the production of those goods causes environmental deterioration whereas the revenues or income collected from them contribute significantly to the fiscal revenue of Malaysia so it’s difficult to completely comply with environmental quality initiatives. To make drastic changes such as aggressively converting to electric vehicles for example will hurt the national oil and fuel company Petronas.

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Malaysia focuses more on bio-diversity rather than environmental factors like pollution control, no Haze Act has been implemented like Singapore.   There are no sustainable or focus on environmental friendliness programs from the government such as importance or strictness on taxation and tariffs on goods that cause environmental damages or mandatory recycling/littering summons like Singapore's strict protocols.

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The research aims to identify environmentally friendly initiatives that assist economic growth and sustainable ones in Malaysia. In the current globalization era, environmental awareness has been an issue of concern in the supply chain. By implementing ecological practices, companies can be more sustainable. Green initiatives have been implemented in most supply chain management organizations that cover economic and environmental aspects such as transportation, logistics, manufacturing process, and product design. Implementation of Environmental Management Systems in Malaysia requires all organizations to comply with ecological and all applicable laws. The Green initiative was put in place to enhance the business world's reputation. The integration of green supply chain and EMS elements serves to balance the economic and social factors and, as a result, minimize the environmental degradation. The objectives of this research are to determine:

1. How the pollutant threat and environmental quality deterioration is affecting Malaysian companies and population.

2. How well is Malaysia doing in terms of environmental initiatives compared to other ASEAN or neighboring countries in the environmental aspect?

3. Recommend initiatives that are sustainable, feasible, and beneficial to Malaysian economic growth

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1. Which method appropriate to motivate Malaysians and the government to implement environmental policies.
2. How green initiatives can assist in the country's fiscal budget.
3. How international, political, social factors affect Malaysia’s economic growth and sustainability on Environmental Initiatives.

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Independent: Initiatives
1st Dependent: Environmental Initiatives
2nd Dependent:  Economic Growth

- Carbon Tax
- Pollution Control
- Penalising Environmental Issues.

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Pollution and Environmental causes have been a universal issue among developing countries, especially in Malaysia considering the country’s main economy is heavily based on the oil, rubber, and wood industries which are big contributors to the deterioration of the environment by proxy of their production phase.

Approaches such as mitigating this issue could be solved by implementing environmental controlling incentives, establishing authoritative policies in the forms of carbon taxes, goverment subsidies in green energy and technology without heavily impacting the country’s overall economic growth. While Malaysia’s budget for the environment vastly expresses on protecting biodiversity, little has been pursued by the government on pollution and environmental quality protection.