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Although this is a piece of creative fiction, all our ideas are researched! Click on the links here to find out more about the various happenings we reference in The Semoga Times:

1. Did you know that 2018 is Singapore’s Climate Action Year?
2. Climate Defence announced as sixth pillar of total defence
   • Links between climate change and national security
   • Oil Enforcement Agency
   • Fossil fuel industry corruption in Southeast Asia
3. Jen & Berries Save Our Swirled: Mess Extinction
   • Original “Save Our Swirled” campaign
   • Species extinction statistics
4. ASEAN to create new climate visa for individuals displaced by climate change
   • Climate refugee visas (New Zealand)
   • Climate refugees in Southeast Asia (projections and data)
   • Issues of climate change and displacement
5. BRIEFING: The environment in 2018
   • COP23 Protests
   • Bhutan’s Gross National Happiness (GNH) Index
   • Other examples of more holistic sustainability-based metrics:
     • Comprehensive Wealth Accounting
     • Environmental Performance Index
   • Protests against Trump’s withdrawal from COP
   • Trump-Kim Summit
   • Malaysia’s Election
   • Russia’s petroleum industry
6. Greendulgence residences
   • Environmentalism, elitism and inequality
7. After long campaign by nature groups, Cross Island MRT line to be constructed around Central Catchment Nature Reserve
   • Cross Island MRT Line debate
   • Latest EIA results
   • Biodiversity in the CCNR area and Singapore
   • Love Our Macritchie
8. I am not plastic
   • Edible food packaging
   • What’s wrong with easy solutions?
9. BRIEFING: What you need to know about SGP2024
   • Economy:
     • ESG (environmental, social, governance) investment standards
   • Defence:
     • On greenwashing
     • Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods
     • Climate denial
   • Energy:
     • Solarisation potential of Singapore
     • Singapore’s role as a hub for solar energy R&D
     • Singaporean banks currently funding dirty energy projects
     • Fossil fuel divestment and the role of investors in creating a clean energy future
   • Retail:
     • Right to repair legislation
     • Planned obsolescence
   • Food:
     • Food Rescue Project
     • Food waste programs
   • Education:
     • Refocusing environmental education
   • Development:
     • Environmental Impact Assessments (EIAs)
     • The history of EIAs in Singapore, viz. Land use and conservation campaigns:
   • Immigration:
     • Climate refugee visas
     • Environmentalists versus golf courses in Singapore
10. A Small Spat During the Launch of SGP 2024
    • History of the speakers’ corner at Hong Lim Park
11. Turn any idle asset into money-making capital!
    • The sharing economy and capitalism
12. GIC announces new transparency measures, green investing guidelines; Temasek to follow suit
    • Green investments and sovereign wealth funds
    • Norway’s sovereign wealth fund’s transparency commitment
    • International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds
    • #ReturnOurCPF movement
13. Consortium of mobile phone manufacturers adopts new standards against ‘planned obsolescence’, e-waste.
    • Electronic waste in Singapore
    • E-waste programs in other countries, lessons for Singapore
    • Conflict minerals in electronics
    • Repair Kopitiam
14. Lead Singer, Chris Martin, from Coldplay seen picking up trash alongside festivalgoers
    • ZeroWasteSG
    • Zero-Waste movement
    • Carbon neutral events and carbon offsetting
15. Food Picks: pop-up restaurant Ugly Veg a hit amongst locals
    • ‘Ugly food’ movement
    • Food waste in Singapore
16. Make shoppers aware of palm oil’s consequences through first-hand exposure
    • Singapore and palm oil
17. Xiayu
    • MEWR’s engagement of influencers

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