Review of National Level Activities SINGAPORE

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Review of National Level ActivitiesSINGAPORE
Second High-Level Meeting on Health and
Environment in ASEAN and East Asian Countries
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The Singapore Green Plan 2012 (SGP 2012)

• Singapore's blueprint for environmental
  sustainability over the next 10 years,
  encompassing five areas
• Public Health
• Clean Air
• Clean Water
• Waste Management
• Conserving Nature

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The Singapore Green Plan 2012 (SGP 2012)

• "Community Partnership" and "Innovation" as two
  cross-cutting areas
• Five Action Programme Committees (APCs) oversee
  the development and implementation of Action
  Programmes for each area
• APCs are guided by a Coordinating Committee

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Public Health

• Targets
• Increase community ownership to sustain a high
  standard of cleanliness and public health
• Build up national capability in epidemiological
  surveillance and research on vector-borne
  diseases.
• Maintain low incidence of vector-borne diseases.

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Public Health

• Key Thrusts
• Enhance ownership through a wide range of
  community-level initiatives on public health
• Initiate nationwide programmes to better control
  vectors and prevent vector-borne diseases

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Community ownership on public health

• Campaign Against Dengue, 10-minute Mozzie Wipeout
  
• Worked with 3P (People, Private and Public)
  partners to target dengue prevention outreach
  programme to all residents, workers and students

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Community ownership on public health

• Singapore Litter-Free Primary School
• Target group 7-12 year olds
• Public health theme
• Litter-free environment

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Building research capabilities in
vector control and vector-borne diseases

• Dengue Consortium
• Collaboration between Environmental Health
  Institute (a research institute of the National
  Environment Agency), healthcare and research
  institutes
• Explore ways to better understand and manage
  Dengue infection and minimize the incidence of
  dengue in Singapore
• Projects
• Serotype prevalence and spatial-temporal
  distribution of Dengue serotype in Singapore
• Sequencing of Dengue Viruses
• Seroprevalence of Dengue
• Sero-epidemiology of Dengue

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Upgrade Professionalism of Pest
Management Industry

• National Skills Recognition Scheme (NSRS)
• Collaboration with the Singapore Pest Management
  Association to develop NSRS
• Encourage pest management industry to upgrade
  their staff through NSRS

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Vector control initiative - Rat
Attack!

• Sustainable rodent control in all Town Councils
• Baseline survey
• to assess level of infestation and identify
  irregularities in environmental sanitation and
  refuse management
• Attack Phase
• to reduce rodent population
• Maintenance Phase
• Address irregularities detected in baseline
  survey and improve environmental hygiene and
  sanitation

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Vector control initiative - Mozzie
Attack!

• Initiate dedicated mosquito control programmes in
  all Town Councils involving professional pest
  control operators
• Develop and introduce a common standard for more
  effective vector control works and for assessment
  of performance of service providers

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Clean Air

• Key thrusts
• Strive for Pollution Standards Index to be within
  the good range for 85 of the year and within
  the moderate range for the remaining 15.
• Meet 60 of Singapores electricity needs through
  use of natural gas.
• Extend use of natural gas in transportation
  beyond public buses and taxis.
• Enhance public transportation as an attractive
  alternative to private cars.

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Clean Water

• Key thrusts
• Increase catchment areas from 50 to 67 of
  Singapores land surface.
• Increase supply of water from non-conventional
  sources, such as desalination and water
  reclamation, to at least 25 of Singapores water
  demand.
• Ensure that water quality continues to meet
  international standards.

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Waste Management

• Key thrusts
• Raise the overall waste recycling rate from 44
  to 60.
• Extend the lifespan of Semakau Landfill to 50
  years, and strive towards zero landfill needs.
• Reduce the need for new incineration plants, from
  the current one every 5 - 7 years to one every 10
  - 15 years.

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Conserving Nature

• Key thrusts
• Keep nature areas for as long as possible.
• Verify and update information on indigenous flora
  and fauna through biodiversity surveys.
• Put in place new parks and park connectors.
• Set up a National Biodiversity Reference Centre.

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2005 SGP Review
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2005 SGP Review

• Three areas of focus

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2005 SGP Review

• Renewed Singaporeans interest motivation to do
  more for their environment
• A chance to shape key environmental policies
  directly
• More than 5,000 Singaporeans participated
  through
• Internet Survey
• Climate Change Roundtable
• Public Forum
• Public Exhibition

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2005 SGP Review

• SGP 2012 will updated in early 2006.
• Incorporate recommendations accepted by
  Government
• Enhanced programmes and new targets

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