How Singapore Became the World’s Greenest City

Singapore is a small island nation that has become one of the world’s greenest cities. In this video, you will discover how Singapore achieved this remarkable feat and what challenges it faces in maintaining and enhancing its green status. You will also see some of the iconic and innovative projects that showcase Singapore’s creativity and commitment to sustainability.

Singapore’s green transformation began with a clear vision and strong political will. Since its independence in 1965, Singapore has embarked on a journey of urban planning and development that prioritized greenery and liveability. Singapore has integrated nature into its built environment and created a city in nature, where people can enjoy green spaces within their neighbourhoods. Singapore has also received many accolades and recognition for its green efforts, such as being ranked first in the Green City Index for Asia and top in the Treepedia index for urban tree density.

Singapore’s green status is not without its challenges. As a small and densely populated island, Singapore faces various environmental and social issues that threaten its sustainability and quality of life. Some of these issues include climate change, population growth, urban sprawl, waste management, biodiversity loss, and energy transition. Singapore is addressing these challenges through policies, technologies, research, and collaboration. The government has established the Singapore Green Plan 2030, which is a whole-of-nation movement to advance Singapore’s national agenda on sustainable development. The Green Plan charts ambitious and concrete targets over the next 10 years across five pillars: city in nature, energy reset, sustainable living, green economy, and resilient future.

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00:00 Intro
01:17 Possible Background
03:26 Examples of Singapore’s green projects
06:40 Challenges that Singapore
11:38 Conclusion

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[kopeesoosoo]

Singapore govt mmg bijak dalam manage negara mereka 👍👍👍 ♥️🇵🇸

[leonkituyi]

Singapore is very green and beautiful but its my dream country

[matthewtrearty]

The speech pattern is really grating. Otherwise a very interesting video

[ifuknjk]

1, 999, 999 new trees in 3 yrs....lky planted the first trr... now all countries copy tree planting...it took sg 55 yrs to b a garden city....very difficult 4 others 2 catch up

[raycrou]

The American voice over is horrendous. Try British or even Australian. The map was Indonesia. Singapore is an island off the Malay peninsula across Johor strait. Not anywhere shown in the map here.

[philipgumm]

Being a tax haven and cheap labour from India and China.

[archimedesxxicentury]

🧐 Project "The bee honeycomb model of the conglomerates" Will Solve the Problem of Megacities 🐝. Archimedes XXI century 😇.

[mengsiongkheng]

Think your location of Singapore at 1:30 is incorrect.

[bdr]

1:38 you put Indonesia map as Singapore hahahhahha

[jeanhouli]

Hi, good video, the country map you showed is from Indonesia, just to correct what is shown

[Rico-tuxb]

Harap seluruh Malaysia ikut perancangan seperti Singapore . Hijaukan bandar2 besar 🌳🌲

[BRBvlogs]

Singapore is the 1st amazing place I’ve been visit

[bebebenben]

Is Indonesia occupied by Singapore? RIP to Indonesia.

[thozhukkatsubramanian]

It is a beautiful city with city in garden.

[pgobservers]

I watched the video on landfilling rubbish is so disgusting. Singapore never dumps raw rubbish on landfill areas. The process is first, burn it to ashes in the incinerator and pick up metallic material before transported tye ashes to Pulau Semakau landfill island and not raw rubbish as shown in the video. That is misleading. 0:12

[JimmyinChrist]

The “giant artificial trees” and “rooftop gardens” aren’t really as green and sustainable as they appear on the surface. They are resource intensive and energy intensive, requiring huge amounts of labour, electricity and water to maintain them. On the other hand, the naturally regenerating secondary forests are being destroyed for incessant development in the name of endless economic growth, which worsens inequality and ecological destruction and weakens climate resilience. Already, due to rapid deforestation and urbanisation in the past couple of centuries, Singapore is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the world, given its location at the equator. Despite commendable efforts to plant one million young trees, Singapore is losing dense forests of mature trees at the expense of biodiversity and public health and mental wellbeing. Hence, petitions have been created in recent years to save the threatened forests, such as Bukit Batok hillside park area, Clementi forest, Dover forest and Tengah forest.

[jasamingarcia]

It’s not with land they keep importing sand and excavating it

[caver]

There is also the problem of massive import of sand etc for land reclamation and building, much of it illegally obtained . This is in addition to the knocking down and rebuilding of recent buildings which is unnecessary

[whatajoke]

That's not Singapore. It's Sulawesi, part of Indonesia. Singapore is more to the west near Sumatra. We're at the southern tip of West Malaysia.

[caver]

It may have the reputation of being clean and green, but Singapore hides the real truth, it is the light pollution capital of the world and most of its electricty comes from buring gas . It also has very few recycling plants and burns most of its waste, this is hardly ecological . It also produces very little of its own food, importing most of it, and has been destroying much of its existing forests for buildings, and uses electricity to produce drinkable water by osmosis which is highly energy concumming . The vast expansers of concrete and tarmac are encouraging hign temperatures across the island