Kota Kinabalu City Hall is exploring whether its public parks, including Sabah Botanical Garden, Perdana Park and Prince Philip Park, can generate carbon credits. The idea is to turn existing urban green spaces into revenue-producing carbon sinks while supporting Sabah's wider climate targets. The move sits under Sabah's Climate Change and Carbon Governance Enactment 2025, which gives the state control over carbon rights. City officials point to the Kuamut Rainforest Conservation Project as a model for certified conservation revenue, and they also back Sabah's goal of 400,000 hectares of industrial tree plantations. The open question is how small municipal parks would be measured, verified and certified. Urban carbon projects can work, but the costs and methodology need to be clear before the revenue is real.
