Mr Tan Hang Chong from Nature Society send a Facebook invitation to Mr Low to attend a Youth Climate Change Forum held in NUS on 16 Feb 2012.
The forum is organized by NUS Students Against Violation of the Earth (SAVE) and Political Association (PA), with support from National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS).
Dr Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for the Environment and Water Resources, is the speaker of the event. He share the Government's positions, constraints and trade-offs regarding climate change and its impact on Singapore. Dr Vivan Balakrishnan mentioned that the major producers of Green house gases are China, US and India. In comparison, Singapore produces less than 1% of the world’s green house gas. However, we would continue to do our part to reduce green house gas emissions.
Dr Vivan encourages students to reduce energy usage, save electricity, design energy-efficient buildings etc to curb climate change.
During the forum, Mr Low point out that meat production causes about 20% of the world’s green house gases emission. Meat production also uses 5 to 80 times more water and 3 to 8 times more food compared to vegetable production. He suggests that the government can promote meatless days to the people as a way to reduce carbon footprint and conserve the food and water resource of the world.
Dr Vivian Balakrishnan acknowledged that meat production uses up much more resources than vegetable production and the most eco-friendly diet is a plant-based diet. He mentioned that NGOs can conduct more forums to educate the public on the environmental impacts of various diets and health benefits of a more plant-based diet.
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