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The headquarters of the National Environment Agency, Singapore is located at Environment Building on Scotts Road. National Environment Agency (NEA) is a statutory board under the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment of the Government of Singapore. The NEA is responsible for improving and sustaining a clean and green environment in ...
The Ministry is headed by the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment, who is appointed as part of the Cabinet of Singapore. The incumbent minister is MP for Yuhua SMC Grace Fu from the People's Action Party .
Ronnie Tay (born 2 October 1963) [1] is a Singaporean civil servant and former two-star rear-admiral who served as Chief of Navy between 2003 and 2007.. After leaving the navy, Tay served as the chief executive officer of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IMDA) between 2007 and 2013, and the National Environment Agency between 2013 and 2018.
Issuance of Legal Notices: In 2015, the National Environment Agency (NEA) of Singapore issued legal notices to six Indonesian businesses suspected of causing fires on their lands, which contributed to the haze pollution in Singapore. These notices were a direct application of the THPA to hold companies accountable for transboundary pollution.
The agency was first announced on 26 July 2018 as a consolidation of all food-related functions of the Singapore government, which had previously been carried out by the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA), National Environment Agency (NEA) and the Health Sciences Authority (HSA). As part of this move, the National Centre for ...
This list of Singapore abbreviations sets out abbreviations that are commonly used in Singapore ... NEA - National Environment Agency; NEL or NE - North East MRT line;
A year later, Singapore (represented by MSS) joined the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). [5] In 1968, administration of MSS was moved to the Ministry of Communications . In 1971, the MSS headquarters and climate station were moved to Paya Lebar Airport , [ 3 ] and began receiving satellite imagery the following year. [ 5 ]
The NEA expanded ongoing studies of new vector control methods involving the release of male mosquitoes carrying the Wolbachia bacteria into the field to mate with wild (non-Wolbachia-carrying) females. The resulting eggs are unable to hatch, leading to a decline in the mosquito population, with a reduction of up to 90% being observed.