Singapore’s building technology in need of a new climate era


Singapore has deployed and scaled up some of the technologies that will prove crucial for any island country’s survival in the 21st century. — Bloomberg

SINGAPORE has gone from a mudflat swamp with fishing villages to an island metropolis boasting one of the world’s highest incomes and population densities – in a little more than 150 years.

It’s going to have to go through a different kind of transformation in less than 30 years, if it’s to meet its newly set goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050.

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