From ramping up solar capacity to เล่นสล็อต replacing government vehicles with cleaner energy models, the public sector is setting new sustainability targets to meet its goal of peaking carbon emissions around 2025.
This will come under its new sustainability movement, GreenGov.SG, which was officially launched on Monday (Jul 12). The initiative is part of the Singapore Green Plan 2030 that was unveiled in February to advance the national agenda on sustainable development.
The Green Plan charts Singapore’s green targets over the next 10 years and is spearheaded by five ministries: The environment, education, national development, trade and industry, and transport ministries.
Under GreenGov.SG, all premises will deploy solar photovoltaics "where feasible". The public sector will increase solar energy deployment to 1.5 gigawatt-peak by 2030, which is equivalent to powering more than 260,000 households a year.
This will account for three-quarters of the national solar target of 2 gigawatt-peak by 2030, said Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu, who was speaking at a forum to kick off Climate Action Week 2021.
To pave the way for greener transport, all new government cars will have to be cleaner energy models from 2023. By 2035, all government cars will run on cleaner energy.
Targets have also been set to improve resource efficiency within the sector. By 2030, the public sector aims to cut energy and water use by 10 per cent from the average of the last three years, said Ms Fu.
The sector has also committed to reducing the amount of waste disposed by 30 per cent from 2022 levels.