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SAFEGUARDING OUR ENVIRONMENT

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY (LOCAL)

Award Committees
The NYAA’s Executive Director continued to serve
on the various Award Committees and panels of the
Ministry of the Environment and Water Resources;
The President’s Award for the Environment 2021,
the EcoFriend Award 2021, and the Clean and Green
Singapore Award 2021.

An Introduction to the UNFCCC
The NYAA Gold Award holders continued to make
us proud. They conducted many virtual workshops President Award for the Environment Selection Panel
on Climate Change mitigation on various platforms 2021.
such as the United Nations’s Southeast Asian
Youth Environment Network. This enabled them
to familiarise themselves with the United Nations
Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

The session was held in January 2021 with Ms Marie-
Claire Graf, UN YOUNGGO Global Focal Point of the
UNFCCC and Singapore’s Chief Negotiator for Climate
Change, Mr Joseph Teo, and moderated by Ms
Cheryl Lee, an NYAA Gold Award holder and a Youth Introduction to UNFCCC by Ms Cheryl Lee, NYAA Gold
Representative of the UNE SEAYEN. Award holder (2017 Cohort).

Partnership and Collaboration with National
Parks Board
The close partnership and collaboration between
National Parks Board and NYAA benefited many
students and youths through various activities and
projects. One of the signature programmes was the
HortPark Photo Exhibition on City in Nature by NYAA
Young Photographers’ Network, held in October
2021. In November and December 2021, a series
of photography workshops were also conducted
by YPN at the HortPark, attended by more than 60
young photographers from schools and institutions of Visit to HortPark.
higher education.

Photography workshop at HortPark. NYAA photography mentors.

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