Singapore, too, needs to have more conversations on adaptation to climate change, she says. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Conflict in the Middle East, the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war are among the tensions that will hinder action needed to tackle climate change, said Minister for Sustainability and the Environment Grace Fu.
Conflict in the Middle East, the three-year Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war have “caused a tremendous drain on government fiscal positions”, said Ms Fu, adding that this will hinder action needed to tackle climate change.with Norway’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Espen Barth Eide at COP28, noted that the 1.5 deg C warming threshold this decade would likely be crossed to between 1.7 deg C and 1.8 deg C based on the combined greenhouse gas contributions and targets so far.
“Just imagine how another few degrees more would really be quite disastrous for the world,” said Ms Fu. She highlighted efforts to triple renewable energy capacity, double energy efficiency rate from the current 2.2 per cent to 4 per cent, and explore technologies to deal with carbon from sources that are hard to abate.
She listed how the Republic is decarbonising through four strategies – to maximise electrification including electrifying vehicles and maritime transport; decarbonising of power generation systems; waste reduction; and to capture carbon in areas that cannot be substituted with non-carbon means.
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