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1. Environment and climate resilience efforts
a) cleaning and greening Singapore
b) mitigation efforts include green buildings and clean energy; and adaptation efforts include water resilience and food resilience
2. Economic resilience efforts
a) deepen and diversify international connections and strengthen business capabilities to innovate
b) encourage Singaporeans to acquire and utilise deep skills
3. Social resilience efforts
a) developing skills throughout life through SkillsFuture national movement and mobilising communities in preparedness measures
b) creating shared spaces to bring people together, offer input to government planning and address social concerns
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Environment and climate resilience efforts
Singapore's sustainable blueprint
From the above video, we can see that Singapore’s efforts in sustainable development involve a multi-pronged approach which can be classified into three main aspects:
Environment and climate resilience efforts
Economic resilience efforts
Social resilience efforts
Environment and climate resilience efforts:
Cleaning and greening Singapore
Mitigation efforts
Adaptation efforts
Cleaning and greening Singapore
The first nationwide environmental campaign in 1968 changed the public’s perception and behaviour about cleanliness. Public littering, spitting and chewing gum were discouraged, street hawkers were relocated to proper stalls and licensed. The government also implemented public health laws, regulated vehicular emissions, and developed national sewage systems to safeguard and sustain the environment.
Mitigation efforts
Green Building Masterplan encouraged building owners and tenants to become more energy efficient. In 2012, PARKROYAL on Pickering received the Green Mark Platinum rating for its extensive use of energy-saving features like LEDs and photovoltaic cells to harness solar energy. This helped the hotel save more than 3,000 MWh in energy (equivalent to around 650 4-room HDB households) each year.
Using cleaner energy to generate power contributes to Singapore’s mitigation efforts. Since 2018, 95% of Singapore’s electricity is generated from natural gas, which is the cleanest form of fossil fuel. Singapore is also investing in new solar technologies and deploying floating solar photovoltaic systems at reservoirs to make the water treatment process greener and less dependent on fossil fuels.
Adaptation efforts
Water resilience - Singapore invest in Research and Development (R&D) to produce weather-resilient NEWater and desalinated water efficiently as these technologies are more energy-intensive than conventional water treatment.
Food resilience - diversified sources and works closely with local farmers to increase production through increasing productivity and R&D using technology
Water Resilience
Check out this interactive on how Singapore build up water resilience using technology.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/brandstudio/OurFutureEconomy-WaterResilience
Food resilience programme
Which local food produce attained 30% target in 2021?
Why is locally produced vegetables falling below 5%?
How can we achieve the "30 by 30" goal?
The initiative at Tampines Block 146 contributes to national efforts of achieving the "30-by-30" goal, which is to meet 30 per cent of nutritional needs of the population by 2030 through local food production.
Food made with local produce given out in school during the Total Defence Day and a poster to promote awareness and efforts to improve Singapore's food security.
Economic resilience efforts
Deepen and diversify international connections and strengthen business capabilities to innovate.
Enterprise Singapore
Enterprise Singapore (ES) is the government agency championing enterprise development and work with committed companies to build capabilities, innovate and internationalise. ES support Singapore as a hub for global trading and startups. With Enterprise Singapore's global network in over 35 locations, it connects businesses with relevant Singapore companies for their business expansion.
Global Innovation Alliance
The Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) is a network of Singapore and overseas partners in major innovation hubs and key demand markets, with a focus on technology and innovation. The GIA network currently spans 16 cities in 12 countries. The GIA has partnered in-market players around the world to run inbound and outbound GIA Programmes to connect companies to overseas business and tech communities, and potential opportunities. Plug and Play is GIA Partner in Jakarta and Manila.
Global Innovation Alliance (GIA)
The Global Innovation Alliance (GIA) is a network of Singapore and overseas partners in major innovation hubs and key demand markets, with a focus on technology and innovation.
Under GIA, EnterpriseSG has partnered in-market players to run Acceleration Programmes in 21 nodes and Co-Innovation Programmes with 40 countries.
Acceleration Programmes accelerate market entry of companies through workshops, mentorships and connections with potential clients and partners.
They support Singapore-based startups to expand overseas, and international startups to expand in the region using Singapore as a springboard.
Social resilience efforts
Developing skills throughout life
Why is there a need to develop skillsfuture?
How can skillsfuture help mid-career workers ?
The support for businesses, upgrading skills for labour and catering for an ageing population as announced in the Budget 2024
Social resilience efforts
Creating shared space
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