Singapore Green Plan 2030 Charts Ambitious Targets for Next 10 Years to Catalyse National Sustainability Movement

Feb 10, 2021

The Government today unveiled the Singapore Green Plan 2030, a whole-of-nation movement to advance Singapore’s national agenda on sustainable development. The Green Plan charts ambitious and concrete targets over the next 10 years, strengthening Singapore’s commitments under the UN’s 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and Paris Agreement, and positioning us to achieve our long-term net-zero emissions aspiration^[1] as soon as viable.

Spearheaded by five ministries – the Ministries of Education, National Development, Sustainability and the Environment, Trade and Industry, and Transport – and supported by the whole of Government, the Green Plan builds on the sustainability efforts of preceding decades. The comprehensive plan will strengthen Singapore’s economic, climate and resource resilience, improve the living environment of Singaporeans, and bring new business and job opportunities. It will influence all aspects of our lives, from how we live to how we work, and play, as we work together as a nation to make Singapore a greener and more liveable home.

Comprehensive Plan with Five Key Pillars

The Green Plan has five key pillars:

a) City in Nature: to create a green, liveable and sustainable home for Singaporeans;

b) Sustainable Living: to make reducing carbon emissions, keeping our environment clean, and saving resources and energy a way of life in Singapore;

c) Energy Reset: to use cleaner energy and increase our energy efficiency to lower our carbon footprint;

d) Green Economy: to seek green growth opportunities to create new jobs, transform our industries, and harness sustainability as a competitive advantage; and

e) Resilient Future: to build up Singapore’s climate resilience and enhance our food security

Realising these sustainability goals will require a multi-stakeholder whole-of-nation effort. This will be enabled by a Green Government, with the public sector leading in environmental sustainability; and Green Citizenry, where individuals, communities and businesses play their part.

The Green Plan will strengthen existing national sustainability efforts and mitigation measures with several new initiatives and targets. These include:

• A new Enterprise Sustainability Programme to help Singapore enterprises to develop capabilities in sustainability;

• Requiring all new car registrations to be cleaner-energy models from 2030, and more than doubling the targeted number of electric vehicles (EVs) charging points by 2030, from 28,000 to 60,000;

• Raising the sustainability standards of our buildings through the next edition of the Singapore Green Building Masterplan;

• Building on our 2030 aim to reduce the waste sent to our landfill by 30%, we will work on achieving a 20% reduction by 2026;

• Working towards a two-thirds reduction of net carbon emissions from the schools sector by 2030, and aiming for at least 20% of our schools to be carbon neutral by 2030 for a start, with the rest of the schools to follow thereafter.