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REPLY TO THE MALAY MAIL

I refer to the front page article in The Malay Mail today highlighting the National Football Development Programme in a way that was inaccurate at best and deceitful at worst.

"Hang your heads in shame!" screamed the front page headline of the paper, centering their sorry excuse for a journalistic exercise around the Mokhtar Dahari Academy, where the NFDP players are housed and train full-time -- except that they're not.

The basis of the article was how the fields in the Academy was left to deteriorate and rot when it was supposed to be the training ground for the cream of the crop in the NFDP, the most talented football players below the age of 17, ready for the world of professional football.

Matter of the fact is that these players have yet to even begin training in the Academy in Gambang. The Mokhtar Dahari Academy is not operational yet, full stop. If the writer would understand the structure of the NFDP and even bother to check with my office on the facts of the programme, he would know that the base of the NFDP players train at the various rapidly growing Akademi Tunas (for ages 7 to 12 years old) and the National Sports School, State Sports School and Pusat Latihan Daerah (for ages 13 to 17 years old) in all the states in the country. Meanwhile the "Projek 2019" boys who NFDP Project Director Lim Teong Kim is trying to groom for the Youth World Cup are now schooling and training full time at 3 National Sports School being SSBJ, SSTMI and SSM Pahang. This set of players for the Project 2019 programme gives NFDP an opportunity to work with a bigger pool of the top U13 prospects who will eventually form the squad vying for a spot in the U17 World Cup in 2019.

NFDP only utilises the fields in Mokhtar Dahari Academy to organise various age group tournaments, selection sessions and coaching courses normally from mid year onwards on an annual basis.

If the writer had bothered to ask anyone involved in the NFDP, he would have known that the ministry is about to award the tender for the second phase of construction for the Academy, and that work is about to start to include staff quarters, hostels, additional training pitches and a common building (for administration, management, and application of sports science among others).

Meanwhile, the maintenance of the current fields will be taken care of by NFDP beginning February 2015.

If he had bothered to do his homework, he would have known that the Academy won't start operations until 2016. If he had actually asked someone, he wouldn't have said that the pitches are currently used by the NFDP U-13 team and four teams from the Education Ministry in collaboration with FAM, because as far as I am aware, being the Youth and Sports Minister after all, the NFDP U-13 team does not train there. Also, the teams at Sekolah Sukan Malaysia Pahang prefer to train at the Academy pitches rather than their school fields.

Since the launch of NFDP by our Honourable Prime Minister in April last year, NFDP has been continuously introducing new methods and practices in order to raise the standards of coaching in the country. With every change, comes more demands and responsibilities which may not suit some coaches and this situation probably resulted in coaches leaving the programme. I am of the opinion that this is normal in any organisation that is trying to effect changes in the way we do things. We are setting new standards and casualties are expected.

While 'The Paper That Cares' was quick to brand NFDP as "false hope", the programme has earned praises from the football world including top European academies such as Sevilla, Real Madrid, Dinamo Zagreb, QPR, Spurs, Reading, Ipswich and BPL giants Chelsea.

A cursory glance at the NFDP’s Twitter and Facebook account would show that our grassroots development is well on track.

I would assume that 'The Paper That Cares' would actually care about getting their facts right. I suppose I've been proven wrong.

這週單打在摩洛哥打進四強
直接被退出馬德里的會外單打

排名不夠高的時候
很難決定單打會進哪些比賽
大都是像這樣
最後一刻才知道賽程
不想因為雙打卡住單打比賽
這幾年也就較少參加雙打賽事（雙打一打進四強，單打就會卡到自動被退出賽事）

Automatic put out Madrid QLi singles coz Rabat was in singles semifinal.
When your singles ranking are not top 30 you have no choice where to play and always schedule change at last minute😆 so thats why I can't play too much doubles in case I got put out singles alike this time.

Climate Change Emergency
每年我參加氣候會議時，只要時間可以，都會參加一場由各個宗教團體在氣候會議會場聯合在一起的祈福許願或遊行活動，不同宗教會用不同方式來祈禱，希望能影響更多人，雖然我不是天主教徒或是基督徒，但幾次的活動中，可以感受到不同宗教界的平和與憂心，都會透過各種方法來提醒世人。
一早收到世界基督教協會，看到這個 Climate Change Emergency 氣候變遷緊急的宣言，Emergency 在我們風險管理中很重要，也有應急管理 Emergency Management ，不只是救護車上的 Emergency 而已，我們真的要非常體認重視這問題了。

幾年前我曾訪問過吳偉立神父，大家可以從 Podcast 聽這段聲音
https://open.spotify.com/show/1ryyVpjRt6faqRT1YfsWif…

彭啟明

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Statement on the Climate Change Emergency
25 November 2019

World Council of Churches

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Bossey, Switzerland

20-26 November 2019

Doc. No. 04.3 rev



Statement on the Climate Change Emergency

But the earth will be desolate because of its inhabitants, for the fruit of their doings.

Micah 7:13

Recent extreme weather events of increasing strength and frequency around the world together with further studies conducted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have jolted many into belated recognition that the climate crisis is not a distant prospect, but is upon us today.

From Hurricane Maria, Tropical Cyclone Idai, Hurricane Dorian and Typhoon Hagibis which caused loss of lives and left widespread devastation in Puerto Rico, in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, in the Bahamas and in Japan respectively, to ongoing bushfires in Australia and California, to unprecedented flooding in Bangladesh and in Venice, and to the very recent landslide following exceptionally heavy rains in Kenya, the impacts on our communities - especially the poorest and most vulnerable among us – and on the bountiful Creation that God has entrusted to human beings as stewards – are now all too tragically real.

The latest IPCC special reports on climate change, land, oceans and cryosphere confirm that climate change has become a top driver of hunger all over the world, and project rising sea levels of up to 1 metre by 2100 due to melting glaciers, water scarcity affecting nearly 2 billion people and more intense sea-level events such as storms and flooding, if warming is not kept at the safer limit of 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels.

Moreover, exceptionally destructive fires and the encroachment of industrial agriculture and mining, have greatly increased concern about runaway deforestation in the largest remaining rainforest ecosystems – the earth’s lungs, the home and heritage of many Indigenous Peoples, and a critical resource in confronting the threat of climate change. Especially in the Amazon, in the Congo Basin, and in West Papua and elsewhere in Indonesia, this resource is, often deliberately, being squandered at a perilous rate.

Children, young people and ordinary citizens have made public demonstration of their outrage at the lack of any adequate response by governments to the gravity of this global crisis, and against the backsliding by some governments. Children have been obliged to mobilize and to raise their voices to demand what adults have failed or refused to deliver – fundamental changes to our economic and social systems in order to preserve God’s Creation and their future.

Indeed, a recent research report shows that governments are currently projected to produce 120% more fossil fuels by 2030 than can be burned if the world is to limit warming to an increase of 1.5°C

In particular, the United States’ formal notification of its intention to withdraw from the Paris Agreement – despite the increasingly disastrous impact of extreme weather events in the US itself – seriously undermines the best hope the international community had secured for a multilateral global response to the climate crisis. This is an abject failure and abdication of global leadership, at precisely the historical moment when such leadership is most needed. It will embolden other backsliding states. It impoverishes and imperils all of us.

The protests against widening inequality in Chile, triggering the move of the 25th Conference of Parties (COP 25) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) from Santiago to Madrid, underscore the importance of holding together the goals of sustainability and equity, and ensuring that the costs of transitioning to a carbon neutral economy are not borne by those who already have few resources. In other words, there can be no real transition without socio-economic justice.

The time for debate and disputation of established scientific facts is long over. The time for action is swiftly passing. We will all be held to account for our inaction and our disastrous stewardship of this precious and unique planet. The climate emergency is the result of our ecological sins. It is time for metanoia for all. We must now search our hearts and our most fundamental faith principles for a new ecological transformation, and for divine guidance for our next steps to build resilience in the face of this unprecedented millennial challenge.

The executive committee of the World Council of Churches, meeting in Bossey, Switzerland, on 20-26 November 2019, therefore:

Joins other faith leaders, communities and civil society organizations in declaring a climate emergency, which demands an urgent and unprecedented response by everyone everywhere – locally, nationally and internationally.

Expresses its bitter disappointment at the inadequate and even regressive actions by governments that should be leaders in the response to this emergency, especially inaction to stop fires and deforestation, the destruction of Indigenous Peoples’ ancestral lands and livelihoods, and attacks on ecological defenders; the weak commitments made under the Paris Agreement; and measures that place additional financial burdens on poor communities.

Calls on COP 25, taking place in Madrid on 2 to 13 December 2019, to:

- set the groundwork for committing to more ambitious cuts in greenhouse gas emissions as part of Nationally Determined Contributions with a view to attaining carbon neutrality by 2050 and limiting warming to not more than 1.5°C;

- ramp up commitments by wealthy nations to provide sufficient, predictable and transparent climate finance to low-income nations for adaptation and resilience-building;

- strengthen the Warsaw International Mechanism for Loss and Damage to include finance to support people and communities affected by the impacts of the climate emergency; and

- promote actions to engage and learn from Indigenous Peoples in and beyond the UNFCCC process, protect biodiversity, combat deforestation, encourage agro-ecology and construct circular and redistributive economies.

Invites UN system partners, consistent with the critical research and policy advice emanating from UN sources, to examine and divest from fossil fuel investments in their own banking systems and pension funds.

Calls on member churches, ecumenical partners, other faith communities and all people of good will and moral conscience to find the means whereby we can make a meaningful contribution in our own contexts to averting the most catastrophic consequences of further inaction and negative actions by governments – and may join in confronting this global crisis through concerted advocacy for climate change mitigation and adaptation, zero fossil fuel use and a “just transition”, as well as through local action, everywhere – in our fellowship, our churches, our communities, our families, and as individuals.