Resource Package

Important documentation

• The Paris Agreement

• What is the Paris Agreement?

• The UNFCCC: What, why, how?

• The ABC's of NDCs (Nationally determined contributions)

Independent research & analysis

• Carbon Brief International Policy: Which countries met the UN’s 2020 deadline to raise ‘climate ambition’?

(8^th January, 2021)

• The Paris Agreement: Achievements & failures to launch

• Paris Agreement Turning Point- Data visualization by Climate Action Tracker

• Implications of the US Election outcome on International & Domestic Climate Action (ESI)

Spotlight on Singapore

• Summary of Singapore's NDC and LEDS

• On 31 March 2020, Singapore submitted its enhanced Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC) and Long-Term Low-Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS) document to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).

• Response to Singapore’s enhanced NDC by the ESI (Energy Studies Institute)

UN, multilateral and educational resources

• UNICEF Youth for Climate Action

• Office for Climate Education

• Initiatives: WWF Eco-Schools Program, SG

• Our Climate Future

• UNFCCC: Youth and Education

• NCCS Singapore: Environmental stewardship for students

Youth and the future of climate-centered education

• What is action for climate empowerment?

• Implementing climate change education in schools

• Environmental issues are top priority for Asia's youth

• Strategies for delivering climate education to diverse stakeholders

• Youth in action on climate change

Education policy- recommendations & implementation

• Policy Brief: Roadblocks to quality education in a time of climate change

• UN University: From critical thinking to critical action

Resources for participants from Presenter: Prof. Koh Lian Pin
Topic: A Shifting Economy. What’s in store for me as a young person in Singapore the next 10 years?

1. IUCN, Nature-based solutions (video)

2. MAS, Sustainable Finance and Green Finance Action Plan

3. The Business Times, Singapore wants to be Asia's carbon services hub: DPM Heng

4. NUS Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions, more seminars around nature-based solutions

Singapore youth, the local and global economy, and business in a post-pandemic world

• How global Covid-19 stimulus plans could put the Paris Agreement back on track

• Rethinking the Covid-19 recovery and climate change

• Singapore's economy headed for a U-shaped recovery

• Singapore- Research, innovation and enterprise plan (RIE2025) key facts

• US$ 1 trillion annually in opportunities for Southeast Asia's green economy?

• List & description of Singapore's govt. funding opportunities for green growth

• Is decoupling economic growth from Carbon emissions possible?

• Sustainable brands and the Singaporean consumer

• Covid, climate and the dawn of conscious startups

• What does a sustainable city mean to Singapore's youth?

• How firms are grooming a generation of sustainability thinkers

• Singapore's green startup ecosystem

• Millenials, Gen Z & the future of sustainability

• Millenials in Singapore's diverse workforce

• Green jobs and youth champions

• Green for $$, green for climate

Climate finance

• Climate finance 101-by the UNFCCC

• How to make the Green Climate Fund a better source for change

• Priorities for public climate finance in light of COP26

NVPC Sector insights

Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment, Singapore (Climate Change)

National Climate Change Secretariat