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

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 sustain...

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Main Authors: CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny, ONG, Ken Wei
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spelling sg-smu-ink.sol_research-54212022-01-13T07:41:35Z The Singapore Green Plan 2030: Analysing its implications on law and the legal industry in Singapore CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny ONG, Ken Wei 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. 2021-12-01T08:00:00Z text application/pdf https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sol_research/3463 info:doi/10.1177/14614529211052597 https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sol_research/article/5421/viewcontent/GreenPlan_2021_av.pdf http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Research Collection Yong Pung How School Of Law eng Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University Singapore Green Plan administrative law environmental impact assessment green finance carbon tax Asian Studies Environmental Law
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Green Plan
administrative law
environmental impact assessment
green finance
carbon tax
Asian Studies
Environmental Law
spellingShingle Singapore
Green Plan
administrative law
environmental impact assessment
green finance
carbon tax
Asian Studies
Environmental Law
CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny
ONG, Ken Wei
The Singapore Green Plan 2030: Analysing its implications on law and the legal industry in Singapore
description 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.
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author CHNG, Wei Yao, Kenny
ONG, Ken Wei
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ONG, Ken Wei
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title The Singapore Green Plan 2030: Analysing its implications on law and the legal industry in Singapore
title_short The Singapore Green Plan 2030: Analysing its implications on law and the legal industry in Singapore
title_full The Singapore Green Plan 2030: Analysing its implications on law and the legal industry in Singapore
title_fullStr The Singapore Green Plan 2030: Analysing its implications on law and the legal industry in Singapore
title_full_unstemmed The Singapore Green Plan 2030: Analysing its implications on law and the legal industry in Singapore
title_sort singapore green plan 2030: analysing its implications on law and the legal industry in singapore
publisher Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University
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