Budget 2020: A game changer for Singapore's climate policies?
Singapore
AS CLIMATE change increasingly occupies public discourse in Singapore, observers are expecting it to feature more strongly in Budget 2020, alongside the government's priorities in business restructuring and social spending.
This could come in the form of incentives to boost the adoption of electric vehicles and the use of green financial instruments or adaptation measures to combat rising seawater or urban heat, observers said.
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