SINGAPORE: The Singapore Green Plan 2030, a nationwide push for sustainability, aims to use government influence in “a more concrete way” to drive action, said sustainability and environment minister Grace Fu on Friday .over the next 10 years, and is spearheaded by five ministries, including the education, national development and transport ministries.
"And this is where the Government will have to take a big part of funding, because corporates will not want to take the kind of risk,” she said. Minister of Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu speaking to Dr Janil Puthucheary, who hosts the climate change documentary series, A Wicked Problem.Moving on to the role of corporates, an audience member raised that companies may be unwilling or unsure of how they can contribute, because they feel the Government has done enough.The four-part series investigates what Singapore is doing to combat climate change, and includes topics such as plastic, energy and food.
Ms Fu added that because Singapore is “not starting from zero”, it is harder to make improvements when being held to reduction benchmarks or indicators.
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