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 us to achieve our long-term net zero emissions aspiration as soon as viable.

Climate change is a global challenge, and Singapore is taking firm actions to do our part to build a sustainable future.

- Plant 1 million more trees

- Quadruple solar energy deployment by 2025

- Reduce the waste sent to landfill by 30% by 2030

- At least 20% of schools to be carbon neutral by 2030

- All newly registered cars to be cleaner-energy models from 2030

Eco Stewardship Programme

This will involve all MOE schools from Primary to Pre-University. MOE will strengthen the curriculum and school programmes on sustainability. We will work towards a two-thirds reduction of net carbon emissions from the schools sector by 2030, and aim for at least 20% of schools to be carbon neutral by 2030.

Chicken breasts, bruised apples and near-expiry yoghurt - these are some perfectly edible food items that suppliers have been throwing away by the tonnes, before they even reach supermarkets and our tables. A lot of this food waste has to do with consumers’ choices.

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed the flaws of the food supply chain - when breakdown in logistics caused fruit harvests to be left to rot on farms, or milk in American farms to be poured down the drain.

But food loss has been happening in supply chains long before that. According to the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, in Asia, up to 40% of food is lost after harvest during handling and storage - never even making it to the shops at all.

In industrialised cities in Asia like Hong Kong and Singapore, more than 50% of food waste happens at the consumer and retail stage. With supermarkets and online grocers in abundance, consumers can buy food almost instantly, and are completely removed from the food growing process. Without attachment, wasting food becomes easy.

Fancy paying SGD5 for a top or dress? That’s how low prices can get for our clothes now, especially online. How did clothes become so cheap? And what’s the TRUE cost of cheap fashion on us, and the environment? Talking Point investigates.

The last decade has been the hottest on record for our planet and the increase in global temperatures is triggering a chain reaction that could be amplified in Singapore. It’s one of the biggest challenges humanity has ever faced, but a group of millennials think they have the answers to how to stop it. As host Germaine Tan heads off on her journey, she discovers that the responsibility goes far beyond just governments and big industries. Along the way, she meets young changemakers whose individual actions show just how big a difference one person can make, from lofty solar power to lowly second-hand books, to reduce our carbon footprint, one switch at a time.

Singapore Budget 2021: New duties and tax hikes to raise revenue and tackle climate change.

In 2017, Singapore produced 8,443 tonnes of solid waste daily. All of which have to be processed and disposed of properly. The country has developed an efficient system, involving the construction of the world's first man-made offshore landfill.

The amount of plastic used is growing. Every year, about eight million tonnes of plastic enter the ocean. A number of green startups are working in a coordinated, collective approach to tackle the region's plastic pollution problem.