Softening climate change


Waste not: A new recycling station has been set up for people to drop in recyclable items at Automall in Karpal Singh Drive, Penang. — ZHAFARAN NASIB/The Star

WITH worsening climate change conditions expected to bring more devastation, Penang is looking into planting 600,000 trees to soften the impact.

State local government committee chairman Jagdeep Singh Deo said although the state had Covid-19 in mind, the recent floods which saw a few states and parts of the country deluged with flash floods, showed that the real enemy was climate change.

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