Panel Discussion on Economic and Environmental Sustainability

Venue: Seminar Room 3-1, Level 3, Manasseh Meyer, Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, 469C Bukit Timah Road, Singapore 259776

Organiser: Global Public Policy Network, GPPN

Panellists:

1. Mr Tan Yong Soon, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Water Resource

2. Dodo Thampapill, Associate Professor, LKY School

3. Seetharam Kallidaikurich, Visiting Professor, LKY School

Details from the LKYSPP website.

China is addicted to growth

The New York Times has published a special series, Choking on Growth, to examine China’s environment and the challenges it faces as it grows economically. The series include articles, audio slide shows, videos and graphic maps. In the article, As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes, Joseph Kahn and Jim Yardley pointed out that China’s environmental problems are causing health and political problems. The problems arise out of the drive for increasing economic growth. Although they acknowledged that developed countries go through an initial phase of environmental degradation before starting to clean up their act, China’s environmental degradation is happening at an unprecedented rate such that it poses great challenges to the government and the public. Read more