by Chen Junxia and Martina Fuchs
ST. GALLEN, Switzerland, May 7 (Xinhua) — A senior Singaporean official has warned that an perspective of complacency and lack of accountability are blowing a gap within the international battle towards climate change and urged extra particular person motion.
“Very typically folks say that sure, we have to do the correct factor for the climate, however why ought to I pay extra? We must change the narrative and trigger a behavioral change,” Grace Fu, minister for sustainability and the atmosphere, instructed Xinhua.
“Each of us ought to undertake the philosophy that we’re individually accountable for consumption, for the electrical energy we eat, for the air con in our buildings,” she mentioned on the sidelines of the St. Gallen Symposium.
The Switzerland-based convention, serving as a platform for cross-generational dialogue and collaboration, introduced collectively 700 members, 120 audio system, and 250 younger abilities from all over the world for this 12 months’s annual assembly.
“Then solely can we begin having that change, as a person, as enterprise leaders, as group leaders, and because the authorities as effectively,” she mentioned.
Singapore rolled out final 12 months the Singapore Green Plan 2030 which goals to advance the nationwide agenda on sustainable growth.
The plan charts targets over the subsequent 10 years to strengthen the nation’s commitments below the United Nation’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and Paris Agreement and assist it to attain its long-term net-zero emissions aspiration as quickly as viable.
“We consider that within the subsequent section of Singapore’s growth we actually want to take a look at sustainability as a type of overlay throughout all sectors,” mentioned the minister.
“Very typically it is not a technological resolution, fairly often it’s a behavioral resolution,” she famous.
