2025: Global Plastics Treaty
INC-5.2: Global Plastics Treaty negotiations
4 – 15 August 2025
Co-leads for the Plastics Treaty Working Group, Mahith and Terese attended the Intergovernmental Negotiating Commitee (INC)-5.2 meeting on the Global Plastics Treaty.
- Produced two policy papers (for negotiators and policymakers), about how we hope to see Singapore advocate for a strong Plastics Treaty
- Tracked different country positions and agenda items at the INC-5.2 negotiations
Talk at National Junior College
25 April 2025
- Co-lead Terese was panel speaker at National Junior College’s Green Symposium
- View slides content here.
Internal capacity-building and continuous training for volunteers
- Consulted various professors and industry specialists to learn more about domestic plastics policies
2025: Heat Vulnerability Project
SYCA’s Heat Vulnerability Outreach Programme was launched in 2025, focused on under-resourced communities, understanding their experiences with heat and exploring possible solutions.
Project timeline:
Phase 0: Ideation
Nov 2024- Apr 2025
- Ideation and conceptualisation of the project
- Outreach to social service organisations and family service centres islandwide
- Volunteer recruitment open call
Phase 1: Preparation
April – May 2025
- Volunteer training session
- Finalise selection of communities and community partner
Phase 2: Community outreach & implementation
May 2025 – May 2026
- Informal community engagement sessions & focus group discussions
- Installation of air-coolers in beneficiaries’ houses
2025: Secondary School & Community Outreach
The SYCA School Working Group had several outreaches over the year in secondary schools and the wider community, in both booth and small-group talks formats, to educate students and the general public on general climate issues and plastics waste.
Small-Group Talks
Changkat Changi Secondary School
- Talk on plastic waste & brainstorming session with students leaders
Booth Engagements
General climate education / Plastics waste
- St. Hilda’s Secondary School
- Christ Church Secondary School
- AlterCOP30
- The Currents of Change Festival (Girl Guides Singapore)
2025: SYCA Bootcamp
We ran our first-ever bootcamp on 19 July 2025 at the Singapore Sustainability Academy for our volunteers. The goal was to strengthen relationships through networking and served as a platform to empower youth voices through theory education and capacity building.
2025: SYCA Designs! workshop
A crash course into graphic design by Singapore Youth for Climate Action.
As graphic design is an art, SYCA offers a platform for volunteers to embark on creative advocacy projects related to climate action or environmentalism. Over the course of these workshop sessions, participants honed their visual intuition with hands-on activities and case studies, which boosted their confidence in embarking on social media campaigns with confident and effective visual communication.
Singapore Youth for Climate Action 