About Singapore Green Plan 2012

The Singapore Green Plan 2012 (or SGP 2012 in short) is Singapore's blueprint towards environmental sustainability for the next decade. It is highly focused and action oriented in approach. SGP 2012 is pre-dated by the 1992 Singapore Green Plan, which laid out Singapore's early environmental thrusts.

In preparation for the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in 2002, the then Ministry of Environment (ENV) formed a WSSD National Preparatory Committee (NPC) to demonstrate our national efforts to coordinate sustainable development activities.

Three Focus Groups were set up to assist the NPC in making detailed preparations and recommendations in consultation with various stakeholders. These are:

• Focus Group 1 on Economic Development Issues
• Focus Group 2 on Regional and International Issues
• Focus Group 3 on Environment and Public Health Issues

The NPC and Focus Groups comprised of members from the Public, Private and People sectors. They include representatives of professionals, businesses and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with the government providing resource persons to assist the focus groups in their work. Each Focus Group discussed the WSSD themes allocated to it and subsequently submited a report, based on their discussions, on the directions, strategies and programmes to help Singapore attain environmental sustainability for the next 10 years.

SGP2012 Three-Yearly Review

To ensure that the Singapore Green Plan 2012 (SGP2012) remains relevant and up-to-date, MEWR did a three-yearly review. After an 8-month consultation exercise where more than 17,000 participated through various platforms, MEWR has released the 2006 edition of the SGP2012.

>>> Click here for more information on SGP2012 (2006 edition)

>>> Click here to download the SGP2012 (2002 edition) and SGP2012 (2006 edition).