The Singapore Green Plan Your 101 to Sustainability, the Singapore Way
by Claire Langrée Saf within a ten-minute walk of a park. One million more trees across the Little Red Dot, to be planted by 2030 to absorb another 78,000 tons of CO2, providing cleaner air, and cooler shade. Energy Reset
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While the space for large-scale renewable energy projects is not readily available, Singapore strives to become more energy efficient. By quadrupling its solar energy deployment, solar energy deployed will be five times that of today by 2030. Beyond HDB towns, Singapore will green 80% of all buildings over the next decade and plans to fully embrace electric vehicles (EVs). Combined, all these efforts will reduce energy consumption by more than 8 million megawatt hours per year, reducing domestic greenhouse gas emissions by at least 3 million tons per year by 2030. Green Energy
What is sustainability? According to the Brundtland Commission's report, sustainable development, the processes used to pursue sustainability, means "meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs."
Singapore wants to play active and important roles in fulfilling two international goals The International Civil Aviation Organization’s aspirational goals of 2% annual fuel efficiency improvement from now to 2050 and carbon neutral growth from 2020
The concept is often broken into three core concepts or "pillars": economic, environmental, and social.
The International Maritime Organization’s target to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from international shipping by at least 50% by 2050 compared to 2008 levels, and to phase out such GHG emissions in this century.
The Singapore GreenPlan 2030 Explained
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Why a green plan?
Tackling climate change is a key competitive advantage, and will present new opportunities for growth and job creation.
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The Singapore Green Plan 2030, or the Green Plan, is a whole-of-nation movement to advance Singapore’s national agenda on sustainable development.
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What Does the Green Plan Seek To Achieve? The Green Plan charts ambitious and concrete targets over the next 10 years, strengthening Singapore’s commitments under the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and Paris Agreement, and positioning Singapore to achieve its long-term net zero emissions aspiration as soon as viable. Key Programs There are five key programmes of the Green Plan: City in Nature, Energy Reset, Green Economy, Resilient Future, Sustainable Living. City in Nature Singapore will set aside 50% more land – around 200 hectares – for nature parks. Every household will live 26
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Singapore will install 60,000 charge points by 2030
