The Singapore Green Plan 2030: Analysing its implications on law and the legal industry in Singapore

• Main Authors: CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny, ONG, Ken Wei
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2021
• Subjects: Singapore; Green Plan; administrative law; environmental impact assessment; green finance; carbon tax; Asian Studies; Environmental Law
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3463; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5421/viewcontent/GreenPlan_2021_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

While sustainability has always been an important policy imperative in Singapore, the advent of the Singapore Green Plan 2030 marks a significant development in this regard. Announced in February 2021, the Green Plan represents a concerted national-level strategic shift towards advancing the sustainability agenda in Singapore. With sustainable development now being a ‘major policy priority’, it is inevitable that the Green Plan will have important legal implications, each of which will be identified and analysed in this paper. More broadly, however, the paper also suggests that the Green Plan will open up valuable opportunities for environmental law to receive greater attention and become a mainstream legal discipline in Singapore.