The city state is seeking to cut emission of hydrofluorocarbons from 2022. FMTNews Singapore
SINGAPORE: Singapore is chasing a new tagline: It now wants to be a “City in Nature”.
“Some forms of HFCs trap a much larger amount of heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide,” Environment and Water Resources Minister Masagos Zulkifli said in Parliament Wednesday. Planting trees aside, it will also add 200 hectares of nature parks by 2030, two and a half times the size of the Botanic Gardens that has been inscribed as a Unesco World Heritage Site, National Development Second Minister Desmond Lee said.
With climate change seen as an existential threat, this is just Singapore’s latest attempt to counter what could become a crisis. The plan is to cut that to 33 million tons by 2050. It has also set up a Coastal and Flood Protection Fund and plans to phase out vehicles with internal combustion engines by 2040.
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