States and Constituencies

Key Takeaways

MPs from Johor and Selangor asked the most questions containing environmental keywords in parliament between 2018-2022.

MPs from Perlis and Labuan asked the least number of questions that contained environmental keywords.

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How many parliamentary questions with environmental keywords did MPs ask, by state?

State#No. of questions MPs asked
mentioning environmental
keywords
Johor
Selangor
Perak
Pahang
Pulau Pinang
Sabah
Sarawak
Kedah
Terengganu
Kelantan
Kuala Lumpur
Negeri Sembilan
Melaka
W.P. Labuan
Perlis		182
180
151
151
138
132
130
127
100
97
83
68
63
18
13
By State: #No. of Questions containing Environmental Keywords asked by federal MPs in Parliament from 2018-2022
*Note: Mentioning environmental keywords does not necessarily indicate a pro-environmental stance.
**Data updated on 11 November 2022.
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Methodology

  1. We selected a list of 91 distinct keywords in Malay (and 80 corresponding keywords in English) that are linked to environmental topics relating to climate change, extreme weather, pollution, waste, ecosystem destruction, fossil fuels, deforestation, land use change, water and other environmental issues. See our full list of keywords here.
  2. Parliamentary Questions: We scraped data from all the federal parliamentary question transcripts (Hansard documents) between 2018 – Oct 2022 to identify which questions were raised by MPs in parliament related to environmental topics (based on our keyword list).
  3. Public / Media Coverage: We searched media coverage of all federal MPs to identify public statements, commitments, reported actions, and positioning related to climate change and the environment. 
  4. By cross-checking and combining our findings, we have developed a comprehensive database to highlight if and how Malaysian federal MPs are talking about the environment. 

Disclaimers

This study scraped parliamentary transcripts (Hansard questions asked by federal MPs) for Environmental Keywords from 2018-2022. It should be noted that mentioning environmental keywords alone does not necessarily indicate a pro-environmental stance.

Our deeper analysis is a work in progress, focused on examining specifically why and how MPs are talking about the environment. We may update with new data findings and ways of filtering & sharing the data.

(Have ideas about how we can further analyse the data? Let us know!)