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The Singapore Green Plan (SGP) was created in 1992 to ensure that the economic growth model of Singapore does not compromise the environment. [1] The SGP sets out the strategies, programs and targets for Singapore to maintain a quality living environment while pursuing economic prosperity.
Since the founding of Singapore in 1819, more than 95% of its estimated 590 square km of vegetation has been cleared. At first for short-term cash crops and later because of urbanization and industrialization. 61 of its original 91 bird species has been lost leading to many native forest plants not being able to reproduce because of loss of seed dispersal and pollination.
Efforts to create a sustainable Singapore hark back to 1992, when the first Green Plan was released. Another edition was released in 2002, titled the Singapore Green Plan 2012. Several carbon-neutral targets were announced, with targets set in 2020 to half 2030 peak greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 and achieve net-zero emissions "as soon as ...
I settled for a clean and green Singapore" [245] because "if we had First World standards then business people and tourists would make us a base for their business and tours of the region". [ 246 ] Lee considered air conditioning the most important invention of the 20th century for Singapore. [ 247 ]
At some point in the mid-1980s, a pony-tailed upstate New York environmental activist named Jay Westerveld picked up a card in a South Pacific hotel room and read the following: "Save Our Planet ...
The history of Singapore's urban renewal goes back to the time period surrounding the Second World War, when it was still a British dependency. Even before the war, Singapore's housing environment was already a problem. The tension of both infrastructure and housing conditions was worsened by the rapidly-increasing Singapore population in the ...
[19] [20] Singapore's Green Plan 2030 further aims to increase nature parks' land area by over 50% from the 2020 baseline with all households within 10-minutes walk from a park. [ 19 ] To balance between the need to cool down urban city centres and energy costs, Singapore completed an underground centralised district cooling network in 2016 to ...
The Global Environmental Movement, London: John Wiley. Rosier, Paul C. Environmental Justice in North America (Routledge, 2024) online book review; Shabecoff, Philip. A Fierce Green Fire: The American Environmental Movement, (Island Press, 2003) ISBN 1-55963-437-5; Taylor, Dorceta. The Rise of the American Conservation Movement.