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The Climate Conversations - How green can ride-hailing get, and can Grab show the way? | EP 43

Ride-hailing companies like Grab and Gojek have announced a flurry of climate commitments in the form of electric vehicles or carbon offsets, including plans for fleets to run on clean energy by 2030. What sort of dent will they make in cutting emissions? What will a switch to electric vehicles mean for private hire drivers and consumers? And how does ride-hailing fit into Singapore’s car-lite vision? Jaime Ho speaks to Andrew Chan, Managing Director of Transport at Grab Singapore in this week’s episode.

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The Climate Conversations - S1: Greening Singapore’s buildings: What makes a building green anyway? | EP 26

As part of the Singapore Green Plan, a major target is to green 80 per cent of Singapore’s buildings by floor area by 2030. This week, Jaime Ho speaks to SUTD’s Sam Joyce on what greening a building means from design to finish, with old and new buildings and the role humans and machines will play in future.

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The Climate Conversations - S1: Budget 2021: One more step forward in Singapore’s push towards sustainability? | EP 25

On Tuesday (Feb 16) Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat laid out the Government’s priorities for a post-pandemic future. Coming one week after the roll out of the Singapore Green Plan 2030, did the Budget bring Singapore's sustainability goals a step further? Jaime Ho speaks to Dr Winston Chow to get his assessment on the announcements.

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The Climate Conversations - S1: Louis Ng on leading the first ever climate change motion in Parliament and the next stage of Singapore’s green journey | EP 23

MP for Nee Soon GRC and Chair of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Sustainability and the Environment Louis Ng sits down with Jaime Ho to talk about what trade-offs mean in Singapore’s quest to tackle climate change, why he supports the carbon tax and greater transparency in emissions data from the largest emitters in Singapore.

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