2 One of the earliest initiatives was the launch of the Garden City – a vision by former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in 1967 to turn Singapore into a city with abundant lush greenery and a clean environment. Singapore’s green efforts can be traced back to the late 1960s when the country was undergoing rapid industrialisation and urbanisation. But to ensure the country’s sustainable development strategies could be maintained until 2030, the Sustainable Singapore Blueprint was unveiled in April 2009. Today, many of the SGP 2012 targets have been met.
NO WATER NO LIFE NO BLUE NO GREEN SERIES
By setting a series of environmental targets, the aim of SGP 2012 is to help Singapore attain environmental sustainability. In 2002, a second SGP known as the Singapore Green Plan 2012 (SGP 2012) was launched. Released in 1992 by the then Ministry of the Environment (now known as the Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources or MEWR), its objective is to ensure that Singapore could develop an economic growth model that does not compromise its environment. It does not store any personal data.The Singapore Green Plan (SGP) is Singapore's first environmental blueprint. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly.
The ocean is Earth’s blue heart and it sustains us and all we love. On Earth Day, as we observe and appreciate our planet’s grandeur, we should also hold dear the 71% percent of the planet that is often overlooked. The 310 million cubic miles of water that are in our ocean is the cornerstone - actually the entire foundation - of planet chemistry and biology. That it is sustaining you and me at this very moment. While this storyline is true, it misses the larger truth that the ocean has never stopped supporting us, that it has sustained and nurtured every living organism on this planet since the arrival of animate life. For this, often is the refrain, we owe our existence to the ocean. We often hear about how many millions of years ago, the first creatures emerged from the ocean to populate the land. Back to etymology, the word water comes, in part, from Sanskrit meaning “to animate.” Indeed, the dynamism and vitality of all life on Earth owes itself to the ocean. Vital water gives us the blues, azures, cobalts, teals, grays of the ocean.
Yet, only 29% of the planet surface is the greens, greys, browns, clays of earth the remaining 71% is our shimmering ocean, representing 139 million square miles of planet surface and billions of tons of biomass. Since humans are terrestrial creatures by nature, it’s no surprise we chose to name our planet by the feature we knew best. Earth, the name of our planet, comes from Old English meaning “ground, soil, dry land”.