Kuala Lampur, March 19 -- Much of the real-world challenges require multi-sectoral actions. Take climate change. No one country can resolve the issue alone. Solutions can only come when all countries pool their resources together. No one industry can do it single-handed. And no one expert area. It requires multidiscipline.

This explains why it is difficult for the world to reach consensus on the actions to mitigate and adapt to climate change. No wonder COP meetings always end up with stalemate. Countries must deploy diplomacy to engage the differing parties. Since climate change is very much about science, there is a great deal of science diplomacy involved. Science diplomacy calls for special skills.

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