The post-2015 development agenda and the new Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) aim to raise the material standard of living, build infrastructure and alleviate poverty in Asian developing countries. They also highlight the important role natural resources – materials, energy, water and land – play in human development and the waste and emissions that occur across the whole lifecycle of natural resource use. There are specific goals that address environmental pressures and impacts of economic growth and human development. Goal 6 for water, goal 7 for energy, goal 8 for resource productivity, goal 12 for materials and waste, goal 13 for emissions and climate and goal 14 for land. The international community has agreed on indicators for monitoring progress against goals and targets of the SDGs, many of which relate to environmental pressures and impacts.This short report gives a quick overview of Malaysia’s performance against the sustainable development goals (SDGs) that address natural resource use and emissions, using a set of indicators to measure this performance. While most countries have established data sets for economic and social domains there is often a lack of environmental data, which this snapshot addresses. The data and indicators for the snapshot are taken from the Indicators for a Resource Efficient and Green Asia data set established by United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) office for Asia and the Pacific under the SWITCH-Asia regional policy support component funded by the European Union.
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