LKYSpeak
Carolina Lima
The LKY Environmental Committee is one of the newest LKYSPP long term students group (Tier I). The group was created in order to pursue two main goals: to encourage mentality and policy change regarding sustainability, a concept that everyone hears about, but only a few understand what it really means. Environmental concerns related to human activity and the next generations are not only about an increase in the Earth’s temperature. It is also about policy, and of course, politics. Therefore, a School of Public Policy is the ideal place to bring the discussion to the table.
The work of the LKY Environmental Committee addresses all issues related to the environment, and particularly to sustainability activities at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, as well as on the Bukit Timah Campus. The group’s objectives include changing the behaviour of consumption at school by raising awareness, and facilitating activities, to show how students/faculty can participate in resource conservation efforts and a ‘Greener LKYSPP’. There is also a concern regarding changes of specific LKYSPP policies such as the current efforts to increase the number of recycling points and reduce energy consumption at NUS Bukit Timah Campus.
Another key objective is to raise the importance of environmental policy studies to LKYSPP. We will begin to raise the profile by inviting relevant speakers and collaborating with existing environmental policy institutes (i.e. Institute of Water Policy).
In addition, the LKY Environmental Committee will coordinate its activities with the OES ( NUS Office of Environmental and Sustainability). The OES implements actions and campaigns on sustainability at the NUS main campus that now will be implemented at BTC with the help of the LKY Environmental Committee.
‘SustainABLE NUS BTC Launch’:
The LKY Environmental Committee will help the EOS to launch its campaign at a public event on January 17th. The goal is to reduce energy consumption at BTC and to encourage people to commit to sustainability: ‘What are you ABLE to do in order to help?’. The OES and Environmental Committee will have a booth in BTC on this day.
Also, the LKY Environmental Committee is organizing a lunch time panel, where the committee and the OES would rapidly introduce the campaign, Dean Kishore Mahbubani would make a pledge on sustainability (to be confirmed), and two guests would present implications of the topic in real policy cases. Our invited speakers are Dorjee Sun, CEO of Carbon Conservation (confirmed) and Peter Schwartz, from Co-founder and Chairman, Global Business Network (to be confirmed).