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ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE CITIES IN ASEAN

   

ASEAN Implementation Plan

 

ASEAN Cities' Implementation Plan

 

 

 

Singapore

 

Clean Air

Clean Water

Clean Land


Short Term (< 5 yrs)

  1. Promote energy efficiency
    Domestic premises
    i. Energy labeling scheme
    ii. Study feasibility of including energy efficient features into existing housing precincts.

    Commercial premises
    i. Promote energy audits of buildings with high energy consumption

    Schools and community
    i. Develop formal and informal educational materials on energy efficiency and clean energy

  2. Reduce emissions from industry to promote / implement:
    Energy efficiency in industry
    i. Energy audit scheme
    ii. Educating industry sector

    Cleaner emissions from industry
    i. Pilot project to feed solar energy into power grid
    ii. Use of fiscal incentives

    Promote R&D in clean energy and energy efficient technology

  3. Reduce emissions from transport sources
    i. Review need for more stringent vehicular emission standards and fuel quality
    ii. Review financial incentives for green vehicles
    iii. Pilot project for commercial diesel vehicles to use CNG
    iv. Set up CNG refilling stations on main island
    v. Fuel economy labeling for passenger vehicles

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Medium Term (5 - 10 yrs)

  1. Further enhance public transportation system
    Extend mass rapid transit system to cover more parts of Singapore

  2. Increase use of cleaner-burning fuels
    i. Push for more diesel vehicles to switch to natural gas
    ii. Increase imports of piped natural gas

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Long Term (> 10 yrs)

  1. Towards more sustainable air quality
    Implement measures to further improve ambient air quality, in particular PM2.5. eg. further tightening of vehicular emission standards, fuel quality, etc.

 

 

 

Bangkok, Thailand

 

Clean Air

Clean Water

Clean Land


Short Term (< 5 yrs)

 

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Medium Term (5 - 10 yrs)

 

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Long Term (> 10 yrs)

 


 

 

Chiang Mai, Thailand

 

Clean Air

Clean Water

Clean Land


Short Term (< 5 yrs)

  1. Turn off the engine while refueling and parking
    - Public campaign

  2. Biking should be supported in urban areas
    - Campaign on biking
    - Provide bicycle lanes and parking
    - Keep traffic laws to protect biking safety
    - Support students to use bicycles

  3. Agricultural waste burning control and forest fire control
    - Campaign to build mindfulness through local volunteers, school teachers, monks and community leaders
    - Collaborate with the Forest Fire Control Center, promote forest fire precaution to the tourists, tour guide leaders’ training on precaution of forest fire.

  4. Refuse open burning control
    - Campaign to promote the reduction and classification of domestic waste
    - Campaign to build mindfulness of zero refuse burning

  5. To control dust from transportation and construction
    - To announce and enforce the requirements to control dust from transportation and construction, specified condition in the attachment of the construction permit
    - To clean up roadway
    - To inspect and manage the transportation route for lorry/truck

  6. The infectious Waste Incinerator and crematorium methodology which meet the standard shall be supported
    - Instruct local people through mass media
    - Educate hospital/school administration for infectious waste management

  7. Enforce hotels and hospitals to use the suitable fuel in boiler (diesel use instead of wood)
    - Revise laws and regulations.
    - Monitor
    - Boiler routine maintenance
    - Promote high quality fuel uses
    - Report through the media
    - Training/Seminar for entrepreneur and staff of hospital and hotel
    - Promote the use of solar power
    - Hospital and hotel contest

  8. Encourage the auto body shop to use the standardized spraying room
    - Municipal regulations and standards are established by local authorities.
    - Establish Hotline center for the complaints, related to this source.
    - Establish the committee responsible for new facility zoning.
    - Special conditions are included in the permit.
    - Set up the healthy workplace program and certify the facilities.
    - Continuously control and monitor by local agencies.

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Medium Term (5 - 10 yrs)

  1. Annual inspection and maintenance vehicles
    - Public relation on the emission treatment garage of Chiang Mai (Clinicl-Sia)
    - Set up Green Fleets Project
    - Campaign on checking the vehicles (pick-up) at least once per 6 months

  2. Provide the public transportation system
    - Co-operating with private bus transportation network
    - Indicate transportation route, bus stop, and reasonable fare for being transported
    - Public relation on using public transportation.

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Long Term (> 10 yrs)

  1. To collaborate gas station owner for installing the vapour recovery unit (VRU)
    - To use VRU technology to gas station owners

  2. Encourage the auto body shop to use the standardized spraying room
    - Municipal regulations and standards are established by local authorities.
    - Establish Hotline center for the complaints, related to this source.
    - Establish the committee responsible for new facility zoning.
    - Special conditions are included in the permit.
    - Set up the healthy workplace program and certify the facilities.
    - Continuously control and monitor by local agencies.

 

 

Krabi, Thailand

 

Clean Air

Clean Water

Clean Land


Short Term (< 5 yrs)

  1. Turn off the engine while idling and parking
    - Public campaign

  2. Biking should be supported in urban areas
    - Campaign on biking
    - Provide the bicycle lanes and parking.
    - Keep traffic Laws to protect biking safety.
    - Support students in the Municipality’s school to use the bicycles.

  3. Agricultural waste burning control and Forest Fire control - Campaign the mindfulness through local volunteers.
    - Make a control center Promote on Forest fire-precaution.

  4. Make the Air-monitoring in public area

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Medium Term (5 - 10 yrs)

 

 

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Long Term (> 10 yrs)

 

 

 

 

 

Phuket, Thailand

 

Clean Air

Clean Water

Clean Land


Short Term (< 5 yrs)

  1. Air polution control

  2. Awareness / education

  3. Vehicular emission

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Medium Term (5 - 10 yrs)

  1. Reduce emission from transport sources

  2. Increase use of cleaner burning fuels

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Long Term (> 10 yrs)

  1. Sustainable air quality

 

 

 

 

 

 

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