Editor's Note: Bernama has amended the heading and intro of the story after the minister's clarification today.

Malaysia was not invited to the Leaders' Summit on Climate in the United States (US) on April 22 and 23 because the main objective of the conference is to encourage large economies that collectively contribute 80 percent of greenhouse gases (GHG) to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius, said Environment and Water Minister Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man.

He said there were many countries that stood out in the climate change agenda such as Sweden, Switzerland and Thailand that were also not invited to attend the conference.

The summit, he said, is also related to climate-vulnerable countries like...