AS HOME TO some of the globe’s fastest growing economies, Southeast Asia is no stranger to rapid urbanisation and industrialisation. The skyline of cities like the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur demonstrates the economic success that the region has recently enjoyed.
Many companies in the region have started to recognise the need to balance development and growth with sustainable practices, and that long-term success isn’t possible without a healthy planet.
One corporation in particular is setting a model example for Southeast Asia and beyond: Malaysia’s Sunway Group.
A WASTELAND TURNED WONDERLAND
National Geographic naturalist Nick Baker discovers how Malaysia's first ever green integrated township Sunway City, transformed from a wasteland into a wonderland, with Sunway Group founder and chairman Tan Sri Dr. Jeffrey Cheah.
SUNWAY UNIVERSITY
The Jeffrey Sachs Center on Sustainable Development is formed out of a partnership between the Jeffrey Cheah Foundation and the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) in 2016; a strategic collaboration to advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Built on the Millennium Development Goals set previously by the United Nations, the 17 goals encompass a sweeping agenda to free the human race from poverty, realize human rights and gender equality as well as to heal and secure our world. These goals were introduced at the UN Sustainable Development Summit on 25 September 2015 to stimulate global action over the next 15 years.
A WALK WITH TAN SRI DR. JEFFERY CHEAH
National Geographic naturalist Nick Baker discovers how Malaysia's first ever green integrated township Sunway City, transformed from a wasteland into a wonderland with Sunway Group founder and chairman Tan Sri Dr. Jeffrey Cheah.
NATURE'S CAPITAL CITY
National Geographic's naturalist Nick Baker explores the picturesque Sunway Iskandar - aptly dubbed Nature's Capital City. a1.800-acre township in southern Malaysia that seamlessly blends modernity and nature.
Find out as Tan Sri Dr. Jeffrey Cheah shares with Nick his inspirations behind the development of Sunway Iskandar with education at it's core.