Appendix 1. Chronology of related policies, plans, institutional changes and legal enforcements

Period Policies and Plans Institutional Changes Legal Enforcements
1963 Tree Planting Campaign launched
1967-68 Clean and Green Singapore launched
1967.05.11 Garden City Campaign launched
1967.05 Parks and Trees Division established
1968.10.01 Keep Singapore Clean launched
1969.01.02 Environmental Public Health Act enacted
1970 Garden City Action Committee established
1970 Anti-Pollution Unit established
1971.11.07 Annual Tree Planting Day enacted
1972 Ministry of Environment established
1975 Parks and Recreation Department established
1975 Parks and Trees Act enacted
1977.01 Masterplan for clean up of Singapore River and Kallang Basin announced
1986 Ministry of Environment and Anti-Pollution Unit merged
1987.09.02 Public Opening of Clean Singapore River and Kallang basin
1989 Waterbodies Design Panel established
1990 National Parks Board established
1990 Initial designation of Nature Reserves: Bukit Timah and Central Catchment
1990 National Parks Act enacted
1990.11.04 Clean and Green Week launched
1991.08.02 Initial designation of Tree Conservation Area: MatRichie and Changi
1992 Initial designation of Park connector: Kallang Park Connector
1992 Singapore Green Plan announced
1996.07.01 National Parks Board and Parks and Recreation Department merged
1996.07.01 National Parks Act revised
2001 PUB designated as the water bureau
2001 ABC Waters Programme launched
2001.08.17 Heritage Road Scheme announced
2001.08.17 Heritage Tree Scheme announced
2002 Singapore Green Plan 2012 announced
2002.07 National Environment Agency (NEA) established
2004.09.01 Ministry of Environment renamed into Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources
2005 Parks and Trees Act revised
2005 Revised Singapore Green Plan 2012 announced
2008.06 Centre for Livable Cities established
2009 Sustainable Singapore Blueprint announced
2009 Skyrise Greenery Incentive Scheme announced
2009.10.28 Singapore Green Building Council(SGBC) established
2011.01 SGBC Green Mark Certification launched
2013 Nature Ways established
2014.11.08 Sustainable Singapore Blueprint 2015 announced
2016 Friends of the Parks established
2017 Initial designation of Nature Park Network: Central Nature Park Network
2020.07 Ministry of Environment and Water Resources renamed into Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment
2020 Initial designation of Nature Corridor: Lornie Nature Corridor
2021.02 Singapore Green Plan 2030 announced
2021.02 Ecological Profiling Exercise launched