SINGAPORE: The Ministry of Sustainability and Environment is in the midst of working on and revising its sustainability guidelines for the public sector, said its minister Grace Fu.
Previously the Minister for Culture, Community and Youth, Ms Fu now helms the MSE, formerly known as the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources.READ: 'Immediate priority' for new environment ministry is a cleaner Singapore amid COVID-19: Grace Fu "And while this is evolving, the civic society, the science community, for example, is really shaping how we are behaving, how we are buying, how we are consuming as well. And ... this is where I think the Government is so happy to work with all parties, all stakeholders to come up with a social norm that cannot be guided by policies - like how we buy, how we consume - it cannot be dictated by a policy ... This is where I think civic society has a lot to play.
"You can see this as job loss, you can see this as a transformation that will create a new business for us. And we hope that it will be the latter," said Ms Fu. "We want to be that position, that where Singapore is concerned, we continue to be a good place to do business but in a sustainable manner," said Ms Fu.
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