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Dr Leslie Buckley
Director (Special Projects)
Asia Pacific Breweries Ltd |
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Drawing on your FMCG experience, how would you market the environment and make it a more compelling cause? |
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There is a need for us to create the sense of urgency if people are to change their attitude towards the environment. But there is no magic formula. We have to communicate, convince, and convert people – one at a time. |
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Mr Heng Chiang Meng
Chairman
Singapore Environment Council |
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What is the biggest challenge that environmental NGOs in Singapore face? |
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Rallying the public to the environmental cause and representing special interest groups helps keep environmentalism alive. Getting the general public's support in spirit and material assistance are the greatest challenges faced by environment NGOs today. |
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Mr Ooi Chwee Kim
Managing Director
Energy Innovations Asia Pte Ltd |
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How can our industries grow while keeping up our environmental standards? |
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These are not mutually exclusive. Indeed, the protection of our environment has spawned a new industry and opportunities abound for companies that are able to devise new and better solutions to tackle the environmental issues we face today. |
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Mr Er Kwang Wah
Chairman
Centre for Cleaning Technology |
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How can we grow the environment business in Singapore? |
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One way is to look at waste, not as a pollutant or by-product, but as a resource. Environmental businesses will flourish if there is enough waste Ð be it wood, concrete, paper, or food - to justify investments in plants and equipment to recycle them into useful raw materials or products that can be sold at a profit. |
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Mrs Ow Foong Pheng
Chief Executive Offficer
JTC Corporation |
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How can we make environmental risk management a priority among businesses and employers? |
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Clearly, this will rank high if it makes good business sense. However, beyond the dollars and cents, I also hope that employers and CEOs will see it as their duty as human beings to protect the environment – in the same way we all love and protect our home. |
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Mr Tan Hup Foi
Chairman
Ngee Ann Polytechnic |
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What else can we do to attract ridership on our efficient public transport system and reduce vehicle-induced air pollution? |
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Singaporeans are a pragmatic lot and in promoting the use of public transport, we should not only highlight the positive contributions they can make to the environment, but the money that they can save by doing so. |
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Ms Loh Wai Kiew
Chief Executive Officer
Shell Marine Products Ltd |
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What are major oil companies like Shell doing to mitigate the effects of fossil fuel usage on the environment? |
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In the near term, the industry is making efficient energies. More importantly, the industry as a whole has channelled a great deal of money into R&D to find cleaner alternatives. This has resulted in a whole new range of environmentally-friendly products such as biofuels from plant waste to more economically viable alternatives such as coal to liquids, synthetic liquid hydrocarbon fuels from natural gas, biomass to liquids to solar. |
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Prof Kandiah Satkunanantham
Director of Medical Services
Ministry of Health |
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How important is legislation as a means of ensuring a high level of public health in Singapore? |
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We prefer a system of education where people learn and internalise the concept of making healthier choices. However, in real life, we all have many competing priorities that work against this. Hence, in critical issues we must put in place laws to safeguard public health. |
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Ms Halimah bte Yacob
Assistant Secretary-General
National Trades Union Congress |
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How can Singapore continue to attract and retain workers in environmental services? |
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There will be many job opportunities spanning a broad spectrum of jobs in this growing sector. Our challenge is how to energise and upgrade some jobs in this sector which are low end and unattractive to Singaporeans. We can recreate these jobs so that they can create more value and workers can enjoy better pay. This is the aim of the NTUC's Job Recreation Programme and I hope that industry players will do much more to support such initiatives. |
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