In the video ,an inconvenient truth, the speaker, former Vice President Al Gore, mentions a lot about government effort to reduce problems of global warming and they even come out with policies and rules to reduce the emission of green house gases. Policies of my government in Singapore has contributed greatly in reducing the problem of global warming in a lot of ways.
Firstly, since the early 1990s, Singapore has been participating actively in world environment project such as Global Ministerial Environment Forum (GMEF), the UN Commission on Sustainable Development (UNCSD), the Ministerial Conference on Environment and Development (MCED) and the ASEAN Ministerial Meeting on the Environment. This shows that our government realise the importance of reducing environmental problem. This is extremely important because they feel a felt need for the change, without this felt need, government bodies may not treat environment problem seriously and they might spend their expenses on other areas such as development, education and neglecting environmental issues.
Due to this felt need created, Singapore actively participate in environmental project and also focus on educating the public about the environmental problem. In 1997, Singapore adopted the Kyoto Protocol. This is a huge spend by Singapore in reducing problems of global warming. In this Kyoto protocol, government pledge to decrease their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by an average of five percent against 1990 level over a five-year period 2008-2012 (http://unfccc.int/kyoto_protocol/items/2830.php). Singapore since then employs policies that encourages companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. One such example is the tuas power station, it has consistently exceeds the environmental regulatory standards set out by the national environment agency and has turn towards natural gas as their main fuel source (http://www.tuaspower.com.sg/tuas3.asp ).
Lastly, government has employ heavy fines on excessively use of household electricity, water and amount of cars is controlled by the government. By employing heavy fines on excessively use of household electricity, people will tend to cut down on their electricity usage to avoid getting fine and this in turns lead to less energy being used thus it helps reducing the greenhouse gases emission by reducing the amount of fuel needed to be burn. Also, amount of cars are controlled by the government, this will reduce the amount of GHG produced by the cars and this in turns help reduce problems of global warming.
Overall, I think that our government has done a great job in handling our environmental problems and I trust in it that it help reduce our environmental problems and make our earth a better place.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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2 comments:
Mingzong answered and address this question in a direct manner. This makes reading of his blog entry easier.
I would like to commend him on the extra effort he put into researching for relevant data pertaining to this entry. His supporting evidence adds credibility to his entry,and being the reader myself, i had learnt more on my government's role through this post.
However, Mingzong committed some grammar and spelling errors which need to be addressed as soon as possible.
Overall, i think Mingzong had done a much better job for this entry as compared to the previous one.
Overall, I think Mingzong has done well in his writing. He did a lot of research and especially in his essay, he put website that's the evidence and a source for user to find out more about what he wrote.
However, I found that there are some Grammar and typo errors. So, if he can avoid these errors, I think his paragraph will be nicer.
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