Ramesh Kana Chairman of the UN Global Compact for Malaysia and Brunei talks to Crescent Leaders about the underlying connection between sustainability and Shariah ethical framework.
Could you tell us a bit more about your career path thus far and your quest for freedom to put pursue sustainability first?
I grew up in a very average, middle class household – Sri Lankan Tamil descendants, born in Malaysia, and it was a different world. You wasted nothing, you recycled everything, and I don’t think it was peculiar to my culture. I think it happened all over the world. We didn’t waste, we used things, and we recycled them. Subconsciously it was a way of life, it was just how people lived.