SC's next capital market roadmap to power up green investments, align with 13MP, NETR
SC chairman Datuk Mohammad Faiz Azmi said this will give momentum to capital mobilisation for transition, adaptation and climate resilience financing.
'We hope to increase the amount of green investments to support our energy transition and to help prepare for a hotter future,' he said in his welcoming address at the Eco-Business Conference 2025 today.
Mohammad Faiz had previously highlighted that this year, the SC will begin the process of shaping views and insights over the long term, including vision and objectives, in developing CMP4, which succeeds CMP3 (2021-2025).
At the same event, he said the National Sustainability Reporting Framework (NSRF) was launched in September 2024 to ensure consistent and comparable sustainability reporting by corporate Malaysia and to align with the IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards issued by the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB).
'Our efforts have already earned Malaysia international recognition by the IFRS Foundation for being one of the first adopters of the ISSB standards in Asean.
'This year marks the first phase of NSRF implementation involving large Main Market issuers above RM2 billion in market capitalisation — some 130 companies — and we will see the fruits of their work next year when the annual reports are finalised for 2025,' he added. — Bernama
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So even if you may have created a POA for future situations where you become mentally incapacitated or become unable to manage your own affairs, the POA will become invalid and become a useless document. Other situations when your POA becomes revoked in Malaysia are: if you give written notice of the revocation, or if you die, if you become bankrupt and the court makes a receiving order against you; or if the person you authorised has renounced the POA, or has become of unsound mind, or dies. There are countries where they have a type of POA that will still be valid even if the person who created it becomes mentally incapacitated, known sometimes as an Enduring Power of Attorney (Australia, Hong Kong) or Lasting Power of Attorney (UK, Singapore). But Trevor said Malaysia does not yet have laws that enable an enduring POA, so it is not an option that you can use here. 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