Go GP: greening your house starter pack / Dr. Asmah Alia Mohamad Bohari ... [et al.]

The residential sector is one of the main contributors to Malaysia’s carbon emissions and reducing energy consumption in households is likely to be important task of achieving this target. In Twelfth Malaysia Plan emphasized on the climate change and sustainable development which highlighted out the strategies to reduce carbon emissions and promote low-carbon development. In Theme 3 Advancing sustainability Chapter 8: Advancing green growthfor sustainability and resilience, Malaysia aims to reduce the greenhouse green emission intensity up to 45% by 2030 and to achieve this target the strategies are to increase the use of renewable energy and energy efficiency and promoting sustainable urbanizations and green buildings as well as implementing a low-carbon, clean and resilient development. It is important to reduce carbon footprint to lower the impact of climate change. The purpose of thisgreening your house starter pack is to provide practical and easy to implement solutions for contractors and homeowners in helping them towards reducing environmental impact. The methods used to create this starter pack is to integrate the MyHijau Directory and ODELA website in the starter pack application including instructions and ways to “green” homeowner’shouse. The benefits of this starter pack application will ease the choice and selection of green products by contractors and homeowners to create more environmentally friendly houses. Moreover, with this helpful starter pack as an initial solution in greening the house, they will also benefit the environment in reducing household energy consumption and carbon emissions.Overall, the goal of this starter pack is to empower the contractors and homeowners to act towards reducing environmental impact and help them to achieve environmentally friendly andsustainable homes.