Ipoh has favourable conditions to be a “Doughnut Economics City”, says Prof Tan Sri Dr Jemilah Mahmood.

The Sunway Centre for Planetary Health executive director said Ipoh already possessed a viable environment for the “Doughnut Economics” concept as outlined in the 2030 Perak Sejahtera Development Plan.

The Doughnut Economics concept is a framework for sustainable development that integrates environmental boundaries with complementary social and economic well-being concepts.

Among the environmental boundaries are climate change, land conversion, pollution, ozone layer depletion and biodiversity loss, while the social and economic concepts include gender equality, health and housing.

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