{"id":76029,"date":"2020-05-28T00:55:06","date_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=76029"},"modified":"2020-05-28T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-27T16:55:08","slug":"iium-shortlisted-for-2-international-sustainability-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=76029","title":{"rendered":"IIUM shortlisted for 2 international sustainability awards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) has made history as the first university in Malaysia to be shortlisted as finalist\u00a0for two international sustainability awards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The awards are the International Green Gown Awards in the World\u2019s Best Sustainable Institution category and the Benefitting Society Award via the LIGHT (Leadership, Intuitive, Giving, Humility, Tenacity) programme hosted by the Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IIUM&nbsp;rector&nbsp;Tan Sri Prof Emeritus Dzulkifli Abdul Razak said this is a huge recognition for the university in its efforts to transform the institution for sustainability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe transformation targets to achieve three main objectives which are to turn IIUM into a sustainable and prosperous institution as well as to empower the surrounding community,\u201d he said in a statement today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The awards are endorsed by the United Nations (UN) Environment, International Association of Universities (IAU) and the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>IIUM is in the final list with 12 other universities including from Australia, Britain, Colombia, Mexico and Peru.&nbsp;On July 8, winners will be announced virtually, in conjunction with the United Nations High-Level Political Forum.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8212; NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KUALA LUMPUR, May 27 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; The International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) has made history as the first university in Malaysia to be shortlisted as finalist\u00a0for two international sustainability awards. The awards are the International Green Gown Awards in the World\u2019s Best Sustainable Institution category and the Benefitting Society Award via the LIGHT (Leadership, Intuitive, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,300,318],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76029"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}