Singapore, the green city • FRANCE 24 English
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2023
- Although Singapore has witnessed record-breaking heat this year - with temperatures not seen for 40 years - its residents have suffered little from it, since the southeast Asian city has adapted successfully to global warming. The city-state champions natural ventilation, tree-lined streets and more energy-efficient buildings. This policy is supported at the highest levels of government, making Singapore the greenest metropolis in the world and a laboratory for the city of the future. Our correspondent reports.
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To all those complaining about the cost of car ownership in Singapore. That’s the entire point, they don’t want you to own a car and you have literally no reason to own a car either. Singapore has one of the best public transport system in the world. It is completely accessible for people with disabilities and goes to basically everywhere on the island.
@@user-bn5eb9um4x It has nothing to do with emissions. The system is there only to limit the number of cars to the available road space. EV's will push the cost of car ownership in Singapore even higher.
Love Singapore visited few times always loved ❤
I love SG, I missed it. will plan to go back there next year.
Singapore is truly amazing. It is really a green city with parks all around the island. Singapore actually has the highest ratio of land to green space in any city in the world! over 400 parks and 4 major nature reserves
Only if you include military bases and water catchment areas.
FYI. In Singapore, you are not allow to chop trees, pluck any plants, leaves, flowers or any fruits grown any where.. Or else you will go jail and fine heavy..even the trees grow near your house, you are not allow to chop down. You may see fruits on the trees eg. Mangoes but no one dare to pluck.. every where got camera ha ha..
Only National Park can cut trees, plants, pluck the fruits etc.. So anyone come to Singapore, please take note.
Our Singapore Government protect these trees especially the oldest trees, rare species etc.. you will get super heavy fine for chopping these kinds..
Government spent a lot of money and manpower to take care these trees, plants, flowers.
Erm, garden city is the old name. It's been changed to city in a garden or a city in nature. Because the green footprint is now greater than 50%.
I much prefer City in Wakanda or City in Avatar😂
I wish for city in winter wonderland 😢
One issue that your reporter did not mention was how Singapore wants to restrict car ownership to reduce pollution etc. Cost is GBP 88,000 just for the right to own a car ... cost of the car is *not* included.
what is that in US dollars ?
@@marcusclements8277Hello. Today's exchange is GBP 1 = US$ 1.22. So it's expensive just to have the ability to own a car.
@@alexmcwhirter6602waiting for him to ask how to multiply.
@@marcusclements8277 $107,712 USD for the cert, Car price and tax not included
They have am efficient, clean and cheap public transport compromising of subways and buses. You will not spend more than USD100 Monthly for it.
Their income is high and if everyone buys a car, there's no space to drive.
The Singapore National Parks Board is also a flagship user of the greehill Smart Tree Inventories! (they are actually the initial customer thus they have their own internal customized and integrated system) 😊
Our vision is to build a city in nature now.
😊 After city in nature? Hopefully City in Shangri-La 😊
FYI, Singapore has only 5.5 million people living in it and only 3.5 million can be considered Singaporeans. The rest are foreign residents and foreign workers.
Yup it is our even case for syrvival
Town council around the estate of Jurong East area are neglecting the maintenance of cleaniness in housing block.
No town council can clean up quick enough if the people don’t keep the place clean and think cleansers are the slave to clean up after them, knowing Singaporeans, that’s an impossible task to begin with.
Then look for ur town council and not UA-cam comments. They got time searching comments here? Then have a campaign for ur town to stop littering
You wonder who it is that is littering??! Animals?
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Your reporter did not visit HDB flats. They are the largest producer of urban heat. Your reporter is focusing on the private real estate that is open to the wealthy market.
Do you use air conditioning in your flat? Don't use it and you will be doing your part to fight global warming. I stayed in a HDB flat when I was young WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONING. I used a low speed fan during the hottest time of the year.
@@PranicEnergy Yes, younger days you don't need air-conditioning in HDB until now when it got hotter.
@slej2502 , my flat faced the setting sun and my room is always baking hot at the end of the day. You just get used to it.
Same here.
The reporter said “..along with 6 millions singaporeans”😂..Singapore is not like any typical country where only citizens live in the country, haha..In fact out of 6 millions population, half are foreigners from all over the world including large community of French cos Singapore is super globalised. So that means only 3 millions are citizens which comprises 4 main races & others. ❤
No wonder Singapore doesn't seem as efficient n safe anymore. I mean the French are okay.. but a lot of immigrants from neighbouring undeveloped Asian countries.
@@90taetaeya right y’all can take the discriminatory attitude towards southeast Asians and park it at France.
And yet, despite many trees than human population in Singapore, the average weather temperature averaging between 33 to 39 degrees Celcius and sweltering humid air, make the actual temperature even higher. Even in the evening, the warm temperature can still be felt making air conditioner service business flourish like there’s no tomorrow. 10 minutes walking outdoor in the hot afternoon sun is enough to make one experience FREE “sauna”.
Shout out to scientists to create innovative solution to “import” snow and cold weather from the Antarctic to Singapore 😂
Seems like some of you are dead against what is reported, and some, maybe unsure of what is reported as truth. There are tonnes of this kind of things on SG.
There is even a program on CNA regarding air-condition situation, temperature in the central urban area vs the rure area of SG even the cemetery last year.
in the past, we cut down many more trees, but I am supportive of SG gov is doing.
FYI, it is a rule now, how much you build, how much vegetation you removed, you must put some certain amount, can't recall how much, but you will find this happening in some of the newest building in the business district area.
Even my company of 1600 people, we had started embarking on sustainability drive and 1st step is to measure the amount of CO2 we emits.... the rest of the detail I am not sure, but I was in the 1st meeting. we no longer takes about greeny, we are moving at higher level.
It's 100% replacement.
We're still a at the mercy of fires burning in forests in neighbouring countries which is beyond our control. Air quality has declined in the past few days, with particulate matter (PM2.5) rising past 50 into the unhealthy range and potentially climbing past 100.
Singapore & Malaysia haze producing neighbour Indonesia
We should be all thankful for the oxygen they produce for the rest of the year, remember 😂 In case we are accused of being ungrateful.
Your complain on this topic is very unethical, your country don't have forest, but all the year you enjoying the free fresh oxygen from it. And when the incident like this because drought from el nino, you complaining like you are saint? So ironic, if you want this incident fast to control, you must to send your fireman to help.
@@pustakarileks7404As a Singaporean, I agreed. Asean should come up with plan to do something with it. Everyone has to contribute. Indonesia has vast land space. Impossible for Indonesia to fight this alone.
@@MrJermson but the other side, the environmental government of Indonesia is soo hard headed, the minister said the fog isn't from indo, so yeah, in indonesia we always fight with the problem like this, and we hate the hardheaded hypocrisy of stu stu minister 🤦
Green upwards but no green underground is bad very bad
Indonesia the forest city
What are you talking about?
The area around where we live has progressively lost open space and trees, and has become increasingly surrounded by higher and higher buildings.
Draping a few downtown buildings with vines doesn't make up for that.
I don't think drivers in Singapore honks like this. The reporter seems to be in India.
Precisely and not to mention she seemed to be at night which would be reported for constant honking.
There are cases of foreign workers who get into jail for pluck leaves from the Park.. ha ha ha..
Apologies, but the correct pronunciation of Singapore is Sing-a-pore, and not Sin-ga-pore as your correspondents are pronouncing it.
Also, viewers may have seen in some of the footage that the skies over Singapore seem hazy and may conclude that Singapore is quite polluted. The reality is the hazy skies are a result of air pollutants blown over from the numerous hotspots, and vegetation and forest fires in the region, especially in Indonesia where some farmers still persist in the practise of burning the land to clear it for farming or crops planting. The haze usually lingers due to very light winds and the absence of rain over Singapore during the hot season, and it tends to be worse in an El Nino period.
SING-(g)ə-por 🙂
English : Singapore
Malay: Singapura
French: Singapour
... Sin-ga-pore is the correct pronunciation. Sin-ga = Lion in Malay.
Thanks to indonesian for the burning crops and creating haze.
What to do bro coz thts the most easiest and cheapest way to do it even though it may costs lives. Haist..it’s getting worst day by day..😢
Eh why you never thank them for the months that aren’t hazy 😂
Thank you Indonesia ( Indonesian Vice-President Jusuf Kalla ) for giving Singapore 11 months of Oxygen, and 1 month of Haze ... Good job Indonesia -- Remember, too much Smoking is bad for your health ....
Singapore's greenery has been sharply declining in the last 20 over years as developers court politicians and ministers to remove even more forests once scattered all across the island in an already very concrete landscape. Yes the NParks will protest that they have planted more trees but these are mere fraction of those already destroyed. In the 80s many housing estates were landscaped with many variety of trees including flowering and fruit ones including giant concrete terraced planters that have been completely ripped out of beautiful rows of palm trees. But somehow after DS took over, the town councils and offices started removing them and replaced partly by ugly only leafy trees that never seem to change at all - they would have considered plastic or cloth trees except that even dumb Singaporeans would know they are fakes. Just recently they planted 20 new saplings just to meet some mysterious KPI right on the grounds once covered with many shrubs and bushes and where 2 trees had been badly scorched black and dying by the numerous times giant burning pits for all kinds of burning were approved by the town council managers to their beloved funeral contractors right next to those trees. Thank goodness the residents sleeping just metres from the legalised arson have not been burned to death yet.
Nice. Now please give up your HDB in protest
@@NewmaticKe then you should stop staying in Ridout too.
U counted? So free huh. Get a job at Npark and play ur part
Because the population is growing from 2 to nearly 6 million as such more housing is needed. Otherwise people have no place to stay. Although there is more housing, there are also over 300 parks which add to the greenery. Since the country is multi-racial and multi-religious it is respectable to provide the needs of religious practice such as burning cages to offer their prayers during funerals etc.
true singaporean "complain-cency" in full display here. you should emigrate to America and join a HOA, i'm sure they will love you
No point watching video s
SG not green n clean anymore.
Only along the route s from Changi Airport looks great but at our Housing Board Estates all one's can look around like graveyard.
Around d estates rubbish n unwanted furnitures are being put at void deck.
Utter nonsense
A confused gal
Nah, prob just u n ur estate. Mine is clean n green.
Rubbish..