Kuala Lampur, June 19 -- This year, Malaysia's public listed construction firms will publish their first NSRF-aligned sustainability reports. The carbon figures inside those reports will be real, but the methodological foundation they rest on is not: There is no localised carbon accounting framework for Malaysian construction, no standardised protocol for on-site emissions, and no mandate on how those figures should be derived.

That is not an accusation. It is a structural problem, and one has not been solved. When Malaysia's first construction-sector Illustrative Sustainability Report in October 2025, it gave the industry a model of what to disclose. What it could not give the industry was the data to put inside it. That distinction is ...