 Bolehkah anda menikmati pintu supaya orang tak pergi ke dalam dan di atas? Saya pasti bahawa pintu akan terlalu dekat. Selamat datang, Minisah. Dr. Peter Hulgam, DG of C4, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen. Selamat pagi. Ia adalah para saya yang terbaik untuk mempunyai ini yang paling marah untuk saya. Saya berada di Jakarta, kemungkinan yang cantik di Indonesia. Sebenarnya, saya sangat gembira untuk dapat menghubungi semua anda pada kesempatan yang sangat spesial di Kuala Lumpur di Sumit Asia 2014. Kami bersama-sama bersama-sama untuk pertama kali di Kuala Lumpur Asean. Untuk mempunyai kesempatan yang cantik, untuk menghubungi negara besar di Kuala Lumpur dan orang-orang, saya akan menjelaskan kemungkinan saya kepada Keputusan Indonesia. Terutamanya, untuk kemungkinan yang sangat spesial di Kuala Lumpur, Keputusan Keputusan Indonesia untuk menghubungi kemungkinan dan kemungkinan untuk mengubungi Keputusan dan kemungkinan yang cantik, Pn. Sukifili Hassan, Pn. Ministeri Pemimpin untuk menghubungi kemungkinan yang sangat spesial dan beri saya peluang untuk bercakap. Saya juga ingin berterima kasih Pn. Peter Hogan, Pn. Director, Pn. Sifor, dan kemungkinan yang sangat spesial untuk mengubungi kemungkinan yang sangat spesial untuk mengubungi negara besar di Kuala Lumpur. Sebelum saya mengubungi kemungkinan saya, saya ingin menghubungi kemungkinan saya, terima kasih kepada semua anda. Saya juga ingin mengharapkan kemungkinan saya, berharapkan kepada semua anda untuk mengubungi kemungkinan dan kemungkinan yang sangat spesial pada hari yang sangat berkembang. Di bahagian kemungkinan Keputusan dan kemungkinan yang sangat spesial dan di bahagian saya, saya juga ingin mengharapkan kemungkinan saya dan kemungkinan untuk berkongsi kemungkinan dan kemungkinan dan kemungkinan yang berkongsi untuk berkongsi kemungkinan dan kemungkinan. Seperti bahagian kemungkinan global, saya mengubungi kemungkinan yang sangat spesial pada hari yang sangat spesial pada hari yang sangat spesial pada hari 2014, di bawah kemungkinan yang penting untuk mengubungi kemungkinan yang sangat spesial untuk berkongsi kemungkinan di Kuala Lumpur. Saya juga ingin mengharapkan bahawa hari ini mempunyai kemungkinan dan kemungkinan besar untuk mengubungi kemungkinan untuk mengharapkan bahagian kemungkinan tanpa berkongsi kemungkinan dan kemungkinan klinik, kemungkinan terdapat, perusahaan dan kemungkinan turun, kemungkinan kecemasan dan kemungkinan. Dalam sebuah konteks yang sangat berlalu, saya harapkan Sambit ini akan menerima kita supaya region Asia kita dapat bergerak ke depan. Di dalam pengalaman perniagaan perniagaan dan perniagaan perniagaan yang berpengalaman kepada perniagaan dan perniagaan di Asia Selatan. Jadi saya sangat berharap bahawa Sambit 2014 akan dapat berubah perniagaan perniagaan dan perniagaan untuk menerima perniagaan perniagaan dalam tahun untuk datang. Di dalam pengalaman perniagaan ini, saya akan berharap berkongsi kepada orang yang telah berubah, yang berharap berkongsi untuk menggunakan Sambit ini kerana saya tidak sepatutnya melihatnya. Sambit ini juga akan menerima kita, yang berguna dalam kejadian yang lama dan yang berkongsi untuk menggantikan pengalaman perniagaan yang berlaku, dan juga untuk mengajar perniagaan yang berlaku untuk mengalami kawasan yang penting untuk menggantikan perniagaan yang berlaku dengan keputusan, inovasi dan kemampuan perniagaan yang berlaku, yang akan mengalami pengalaman kemampuan kemampuan seperti pengalaman 3R, pengalaman re-use dan pengalaman dan pengalaman pengalaman kemampuan untuk kemampuan perniagaan yang berlaku. Puan-puan, wanita dan wanita, kawasan yang penting kita berlaku adalah untuk mencapai kemampuan yang berlaku untuk mengajar kemampuan perniagaan yang berlaku untuk kemampuan perniagaan yang berlaku. Sejauh ini, dua sumbangan yang telah diberlaku pada tahun 1992 dan 2012 pada kemampuan perniagaan yang berlaku untuk kemampuan perniagaan yang berlaku. Puan-puan perniagaan dan perniagaan Puan-puan adalah salah satu pula penting untuk mengejarkan kemampuan yang berlaku kerana kemampuan perniagaan dan perniagaan dalam kontek kemampuan dan perniagaan yang berlaku dan kemampuan perniagaan yang berlaku. Ia adalah salah satu pula daerah yang terkenal pada tahun 2012 dan dianggap pada tahun 2012. In this regards, efficient use of natural resources is paramount important factor of green economy because it will enhance our ability to manage natural resources' sustainability. Also reduce negative environmental impacts, increase resource efficiency and reduce waste. At present, the wall population is 7 billion and it is predicated that it will reach to 9 billion by the year 2050. Obviously, the rise in population will have undesirable impacts to use the natural resources, particularly our critical forest and plant genetic resources as well. Here I would like to highlight the critical role of environmentally sound technology, research and development technological transfer to developing countries and technological innovation including in support of green growth in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication. Besit, I would like to say the importance of linking financing technology, capacity building and national needs for sustainable development. Nowadays, achieving our common goal of sustainable development has been the greatest challenge to our mankind particularly to the governments. The key issue here is now governments and financial institutions will set policies which can facilitate and encourage green economic opportunities and green innovation and green growth in Southeast Asia. The overarching challenge is to create enabling policies to help scale up the existing solutions and to promote innovation for future enhancements. In this regard, I would like to say that individual countries cannot overcome the inter-connected problems such as extreme poverty, drought and hunger, development gaps between the poor and the rich countries, economic instability, social inequality and environmental degradation and so on. We all know that it is vital to continue effective international cooperation so that we realize to full achievement of the development goals while maintaining the principle of common but differentiated responsibilities as the foundation of the current and future global development efforts. Here, I would like to emphasize the key role of forest in seeking development because forests not only give us environmental protection functions but also provide numerous ecosystem services and therefore we have to protect and conserve forests to our utmost priority. It is also very important to position forests and landscapes at the core of ongoing policy making processes in the region related to green growth, poverty eradication, sustainable land use, climate change mitigation and adaptation, full security and nutrition and the achievement of the ASEAN Community 2015. Moreover, highlighting the role sustainable landscapes can lead to the achieve our hope to environmental sustainability, equitable economic development in an economically competitive and ecologically dynamic region. And to narrow down the development gaps among ASEAN member states. Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, while I have this opportunity, I would like to share you the progress made in Myanmar politically, economically and socially. Here, probably you may have witnessed yourselves. Myanmar is now under the progress of transition and democratic nation and transformation, transformation economic modalities that will pave the way to construct a democratic and developed country. Now we are actively working with the world's communities to achieve the socio-economic development while conserving environment and changing economic path from brown to green economic development path. Similarly, significant progresses in the areas of peacemaking process, educational and agricultural development. Then use settlement, diplomatic ties with the other countries, forest and environmental conservation and rural development have been achieved. In this regards, I would like to share you our happiness of receiving positive reflections and growing recognitions on our political, social and economic development by the international communities. Promogating of Environmental Conservation Law 2012. Development of EIA and SIA guidance. Exercising, log-export ban, strengthening sustainable forest management, expanding protected area network, forest law enforcement, governance and trade, flekti, and Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative, EIDI, is a significant effort to make balance between development and environment for green group. We also initiative reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation red plus in 2011. As a part of our efforts to reduce deforestation rate, strengthen sustainable forest management and enhance forest ecosystem services. EIDI plus red nets robot was successfully developed in June 2013 and implementation of red plus robot is in progress. Myanmar is a signatory to many international conventions, agreements and treaties including UNFCCC, UNCPD, UNCCD and CHUTU protocol. It reflects that the government of Myanmar is fully committed to climate change mitigation, sustainable forest management, restoration of degraded forest ecosystems, biodiversity conservation, combating desertification and rural development activities. Accordingly, these activities are being implemented as they are high on our development agenda of green group. With regards to conservation of natural resources including forest and wildlife, Myanmar forest policy, the forest law and the protection of wildlife and wild plants and conservation on natural areas law are in place and are being exercised as a legal framework all over the country. Besides, environmental conservation law was also enacted in 2012 in order to regulate issues related to environment. Likewise, Myanmar National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan, MBSEP, was formulated in 2011 and this framework is also comprehensive that it serves as a guiding document for biodiversity conservation, natural resources management and the sustainable utilization. Within this context, we have been trying our best to manage our forest resources on the sustainable basis for improved humanity and social equity while reducing environmental venerabilities and associated riks. I am hoping that this summit will be able to improve, provide platform for ASEAN countries to engage in bilateral and multilateral exchanges with their global counterparts, business, executives, civil societies and development partners in the pursuit of new green growth pathway for development in the region. For an environmentally sustainable future, we need to value our natural resources and ecosystem services to better inform policy and decision making especially since ASEAN region is a hotspot of unique biodiversity and ecosystems. Myanmar family believes the green growth initiative in Southeast Asia will contribute the property as well as to the sustained economic growth enhancing social inclusion, improving human welfare and creating opportunities for employment and decent work for all. Why maintaining the healthy functioning of the earth ecosystems? Excellencies, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen. According to the summit agenda, I have learned that that will be a panel discussion on green growth in Southeast Asia within this broad context. I am convinced and also encourage that after my intervention, there will be a panel section and for this important section, expat from various phase of studies, are here and with us and they will be contributing the environmental protection, governance, sustainable resource management and the development of sustainable landscape of green growth in the ASEAN region. Lastly, but not the least, I would like to express my profound appreciation and gratitude to all the organisers, partners, international organisations, speakers and participants for their tremendous effort to successfully hold on this summit. I firmly believe that we will be able to achieve reserve oriented outcomes at the end of the summit. I look forward to work together with you all of you in the future. I wish you all and the Forest Asia Summit 2014 will be very success. Thank you very much. Thank you very much indeed, Your Excellency, for your speech this morning. And now, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce to you His Excellency Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Environment and Water Resources of Singapore. You have the floor, sir. Thank you, Excellencies, ladies and gentlemen. I am standing between you and your cup of coffee so I'm going to try to keep this short. I hope to leave you with three points. We have a problem, but the first point is that the root of this problem is misalign commercial interests. The reason companies burn forests and engage in unsustainable degradation of our land is because of short term profits. The second point, the main victims of this in fact are the local indigenous people living on and adjacent to those lands that are subject to such environmental vandalism. The third point is that there is therefore an urgent need for governments, for non-government organisations and for local communities to insist on transparency, to collaborate more effectively, to pursue investigations and to prosecute those responsible. So, those are the three points I wanted you to remember. The rest of my speech, you can accept and take at face value. We are here today, as I said, and because we have a problem. And there are three key reasons why this problem matters. First, the loss of biodiversity. Second, the huge emission of greenhouse gases. And third, the negative and real impact that these practices have on our local communities. The forests of Southeast Asia make up about 5% of the world's total. But I think many people don't sufficiently appreciate the fact that there is greater biodiversity in the forests of Southeast Asia than there is in even the Amazon or in the African rainforest. And there is certainly greater biodiversity even in a tiny spot like Singapore than the entire continental United States. So, the point is if we mismanaged the rainforest in our neighbourhood, this is a loss not just for us, but indeed for the entire world. But we know, unfortunately, that Southeast Asia is losing rainforest at an unprecedented rate. A 2013 publication in the journal Science revealed that the amount of forests lost globally from 2000 to 2012 is approximately 2.3 million square kilometres. To put this in context, this is about 3100 times the size of Jakarta or indeed 1.2 times that of the entire Indonesian. The forests in Southeast Asia are not spared from this worrying development. And it is basically being driven by economic interests. Logging, pulp wood, clear cutting have also led to extensive deforestation. But it is not just the loss of biodiversity, but also the impact on global climate change. Deforestation contributes at an alarming rate to the emission of greenhouse gases. In fact, a 2010 REDD report suggests that the majority of Indonesia's greenhouse gas emissions actually stems from land use activities. 37 per cent of it due to deforestation and 27 per cent due to peat fires. In fact, deforestation occurring on peat lands, especially peat lands that have been cleared by burning, releases a disproportionate amount of carbon dioxide. I saw a recent study. In fact, this was research conducted by C4. And it estimated that in June last year, when we experienced the worst episode of haze so far in Southeast Asia, in June last year, the estimate is that about, let me get the figures correct, about 171 megatons of carbon dioxide equivalents of greenhouse gases were emitted to put that 171 megatons in context. That represents about 10 per cent of Indonesia's reported annual greenhouse gas emissions for the period from 2000 to 2005. So, it's ironic that we spend, and I'm on the climate change circuit. All of us negotiators have a very big footprint because we jet all over the world to release more hot air in our negotiations. But I find it ironic that we argue about shaving a few percentage points in international commitments. Yet, right here in our neighbourhood, we're releasing such copious amounts of carbon dioxide. So, we need to be frank about it and to accept that we do have a problem. And in fact, the whole issue of sustainable development of forests is a complex issue. Because in addition to being a source of biodiversity and of providing pulp and logging, we have to contend with the competing issues of land development of agriculture. And it is also a supremely ironic that even as we clear our forests and even as we emit more carbon dioxide because we need more land for agriculture to feed our people. But ultimately, this is self-defeating because as climate change progresses and the sea levels rise, we get more drought and we get more floods, nature will take revenge on us and in fact, our agricultural systems will be put at risk. So, that is why if we continue on this current trajectory, all of us are in trouble. I started off my speech by asking you to just remember the three points, which is that the root cause was commercial, the main victims are local and that the solution requires collaboration, effective, decisive action on the parts of governments, NGOs and local communities. Let me just expand a little on that. Last year, Southeast Asia experienced one of the worst episodes of haze ever and the negative impact that had on our economy, on our livelihoods, on our environment and most importantly on the health of our people was unprecedented. Despite this happening in June, and we would have thought we learnt a lesson but the brutal truth is that in fact, in January and February this year, the fire burning season began even earlier, taking advantage of a drought which occurred in our region. So, so far the signs are not promising. The haze affected Singapore but it is important to remember that there are far more citizens in Indonesia and Malaysia who affected far worse than my fellow citizens in Singapore. Businesses also suffered losses. Workers could not get work sites, even wafer fares were affected because the air in their plants was contaminated. Airports were closed, accidents occurred and we all know that in fact the external cost of such a disaster the far exceeded the short term profits that the companies would have made. And for too many years our region has grappled with this recurrent challenge without making much progress. We cannot and should not blame traditional slash and burn agriculture. Slash and burn agriculture has been occurring for thousands of years but we didn't have haze on this unprecedented level before. The reason we have it is because of industrial scale deforestation at an unprecedented level. And this happens because the short term gains are too compelling whilst the companies are not liable for paying for the damage that they cause to the external environment, to the larger economy and to the people who are most affected by their actions. So the question then which confronts us is can we realign the interest? Because you see my friends it's important for us to realise that to call a halt to development is not possible. It's not viable. Every nation, every group of people has a right to development, has a right to growth, has a right to feed his or her family. So the question is how do we grow our economies and how do companies make profits but in a sustainable way and in a fair way. I would leave you with three final thoughts. The first is that people have rights. They have rights to jobs, to growth, to health and to security and to long term safety despite the threat of climate change. Second point is that companies have responsibilities. Companies have to make a profit. Without a profit you don't exist but you've got to make your profits in a way which accounts for the impact that you have on the local communities and on the environment and the really viable, sustainable long term companies are those who can account for this completely. The third point is transparency and that is where NGOs and the more responsible companies come into it. We now live in a day and age satellite photos being available almost real time of drones being able to grow of cheap air quality sensors of an always on always connected world of the internet. We've got to turn those eyes and build a system of transparency which makes people accountable for their actions and companies operating in such a way I'll give you an example. Unilever has committed that it will track the source of its palm oil all the way down to the plantation and therefore it sends the message that it wants its sources to be derived from sustainable practices. We need to start to wake up and to operate in such a transparent world and if we do that I believe it is possible to develop to make a profit to be responsible and to look after our people only and only if we do that then can we fulfill the goal that President Susilo Bambang Yudo said just now which is that we're not making decisions just for the present but to leave a legacy a viable legacy for the next generation to come so I thank you all very much for the honour of being able to address you and to speak so frankly for all of you I look forward to your deliberations and most important to your actions to leave a better world for the next generation thank you very much