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Singapore’s current policy gaps are incompatible with a global warming of < 1.5C and a Green New Deal is a policy solution for the just transition to the zero carbon economy. The Green New Deal is an economic stimulus package that creates jobs, stimulates investments and puts workers and famlies first in the new zero carbon economy. It is a policy solution that is designed to tackle the needs for everyday Singaporeans facing challenges such as rising costs of living, declining quality of life and job competition and match the scale and speed of the economic transformation called for by the (IPCC) in their Oct 2018 report on global warming of 1.5C.
If you are outside Singapore, why should you care about climate change policy in Singapore?
Singapore is host to the 7th largest refinery complex and a safe carbon haven for two of the big oil majors — ExxonMobil and Shell. Cleaning up the petrochemical complex in Singapore is one more step to ending fossil fuels worldwide.
It is one of the top 5 most influential and powerful cities in the world and leads in areas of finance, technology and academics and could be an accelerator for the pace of change, particularly in Asia and especially in the lagging Southeast asia (ASEAN) region
Its advanced modern city design and strong executive capabilities uniquely enables it to be a model city of sustainable development for tropical cities — sub-saharan Africa and ASEAN are areas of highest projected growth in emissions, so having an at-scale proof-of-concept design will be a big win in averting future emissions
Limiting financing of coal and oil and gas projects and limiting the supply of liquid transportation fuels in ASEAN region
References
Channel News Asia — local academic’s review of Singapore’s climate action policy gaps https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/commentary/singapore-climate-change-action-un-madrid-oil-refinery-petrochem-12178838
Climate Action Tracker — Singapore’s climate action policy gap assessment https://climateactiontracker.org/countries/singapore/
IPCC special report on global warming of 1.5C https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/download/
Green New Deal for Europe EU commission — https://ec.europa.eu/info/sites/info/files/european-green-deal-communication_en.pd
Green New Deal Europe https://www.gndforeurope.com/
Green New Deal in the US https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov/gnd
The case for a Green New Deal for Singapore https://www.moralmillennials.com/post/a-green-new-deal-for-singapore
The Singapore Green New Deal project on ResearchGate https://www.researchgate.net/project/A-Green-New-Deal-climate-action-policy-for-Singapore
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