If MEWR and NEA wish to nurture more ground-up initiatives and increase the number of new environmental NGOs and groups in the new year, here are some suggestions for them to help the green community: 1) Provide Space The green community needs office space to do their work, and meeting…
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How Far Will The Long Arm Reach? – Deconstructing Singapore’s Transboundary Haze Pollution Act
This article is contributed by Maxine Chen. Introduced in 2013, the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act is now beginning to be utilised by the NEA to serve preventive notice measures on a number of Indonesian companies. This piece of law is a daring departure from the consultative methods traditionally adopted by…
Continue ReadingReducing Marine Trash in Singapore
We arranged a meeting yesterday with staff from the Department of Public Cleanliness and the Policy and Planning Division in the National Environment Agency (NEA) to discuss about marine trash, together with Siva from International Coastal Cleanup Singapore and Ria from Wildsingapore. The objectives of the meeting were to: Understand…
Continue ReadingUnderstanding the Energy Management Maturity of Companies in Singapore
Singapore’s Energy Conservation Act, which came into force on April 22 this year, requires companies to take steps toward managing their energy consumption and improving energy efficiency. In light of this new legislation, Accenture, with support from the National Environment Agency, conducted a qualitative survey of 100 energy intensive companies…
Continue ReadingWaste Management and Recycling: Is Our Effort Going to Waste?
By Jovin Hurry The Waste Management Symposium 2013 held on 2 July at Max Atria, Singapore Expo, got several participants to question whether what countries in the region have been doing in managing their waste is enough and impactful, given the increasing level of difficulty of inter-related waste issues in…
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