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Carbon & Climate
Malaysian youths file climate lawsuit against government for failure to act on deforestation
The judicial review application at the Kuala Lumpur High Court demands urgent action to halt escalating deforestation and to honour the country’s decades-old pledge to maintain 50 per cent forest cover.
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