How to use this site
A short tour of what is on each page, who it is for, and where to go first depending on what you are trying to do. No prior knowledge assumed.
What this site is
If your organisation has to report on sustainability in Singapore, the information you need is scattered. The rules are on one government site, the reporting standards on another, and the numbers you need to calculate emissions somewhere else again. All of it changes.
This site pulls those three things into one place:
- The rules — what Singapore requires, who it applies to, and by when.
- The standards — the international rulebooks (GRI, ISSB, ISO 14064) that say how a report should be written.
- The numbers — emission factors, which convert everyday activity like electricity use into a carbon figure.
It also watches the official websites for you and lists anything new, so you do not have to check twenty pages by hand.
Where to start
Pick whichever of these sounds most like you.
“I have just been told we need to report. What applies to us?”
Go to SG Regulations. Each entry says plainly who it applies to, the size or emissions threshold that pulls an organisation in, and the dates things start. The ones that catch the most organisations are listed first.
Open SG Regulations“We know we have to report. How do we actually write it?”
Go to Frameworks. A framework is a rulebook for what a sustainability report should contain. Each page explains what that rulebook asks for, and — importantly — a section called “What this means in Singapore” that connects it to the local rules.
Open Frameworks“I need to turn our electricity bill into a carbon number.”
Go to Emission Factors to look up the number, or Calculator to do the arithmetic. Both show you exactly which official publication each number came from.
“I just want to keep an eye on what is changing.”
Go to Updates. Tick Singapore only and set the period to the last 30 days for a quick catch-up.
Last 30 days, Singapore only“I keep hitting abbreviations I do not recognise.”
This field has more three-letter abbreviations than almost any other. The Glossary explains each one in a sentence or two.
Open the GlossaryEvery page, in one line each
| Page | What it is for |
|---|---|
| Home | A dashboard. Recent updates, deadlines coming up, and the emission factors people look up most. |
| Updates | Everything new, collected automatically from official sources. Filter by subject, date or organisation, and search it by words or by pattern. |
| SG Regulations | Singapore's rules. Who they apply to, the thresholds, and the dates. |
| Frameworks | The international reporting rulebooks, explained, and how each connects to Singapore. |
| Emission Factors | The conversion numbers, each with its unit, its year, and a link to the official source. |
| Calculator | Enter how much you used; get an estimate with the workings shown. |
| Glossary | Plain-English definitions of the abbreviations. |
| About | How the site keeps itself up to date, and what it deliberately does not do. |
Five things worth understanding
You do not need these to browse, but they make everything else click.
Three common tasks, step by step
Find the electricity emission factor for a given year
- Open Emission Factors.
- The Singapore electricity figure is highlighted in the box at the top, with earlier years listed beside it.
- Read across the row: the number, the unit it is measured in, and the year it applies to.
- Click the source link on the right to open the official publication. Cite that, not this page.
Estimate the emissions from your office electricity
- Open the Calculator.
- In the first dropdown, choose the Singapore electricity factor for your reporting year.
- Type your annual electricity use into Quantity. The grey box beside it tells you the unit expected — match it to your bill.
- Give it a label like “Head office FY2025” so the result is readable.
- Click Add activity for anything else you want to include, then Calculate.
- The result shows each line, the factor used, the source, and the total. Read the grey note underneath before using the number for anything official.
Find everything one regulator has published
- Open Updates.
- Type the body's name — NEA, MAS, SGX — into Search and press Apply.
- Narrow further with Period if you only want what is recent, or tick Singapore only to drop the international material.
- Every result links straight to the original publication. Open that before you rely on it.
Searching the updates feed
The search box on Updates does two different things, and the checkbox under it decides which.
Ordinary search
Type what you are looking for and press Apply. It matches anywhere in a title or summary, and capital letters make no difference — carbon tax and Carbon Tax find the same rows. This is what you want almost all of the time.
Combine it with the filters beside it: Category, Topic, Framework, Period and Singapore only all narrow what the search returns.
Pattern search
Tick Regular expression and the box takes a pattern instead of plain words. A pattern is worth the trouble when one search should stand for several, or when where the words appear matters.
| Type this | To find |
|---|---|
scope [123] |
Scope 1, Scope 2 or Scope 3 — three searches at once |
MAS|SGX |
Either regulator. The bar means “or” |
^Consultation |
Titles that start with the word, not ones that merely contain it |
IFRS S[12] |
Either standard, without dragging in IFRS S3 |
Four characters carry most of the value:
[abc] for any one of these,
| for or,
^ for starts with,
$ for ends with. Everything else is matched as typed.
If it says it will not run your pattern
A message appears under the box and nothing is searched. There are three reasons, and each has a fix:
- “Not a valid pattern.” Usually a bracket that was opened and not closed. The message says where.
-
“Nests one repetition inside another.”
Something like
(a+)+. Patterns of that shape can take effectively forever to match, so they are refused before they are run. Remove the inner repeat. - “Longer than 120 characters.” Split it into a shorter pattern and a filter beside it.
If a pattern is simply finding nothing, untick the box first. A plain search for the same words is the quickest way to tell an empty corpus from a pattern that does not say what you meant.
Put it on your phone
This site installs like an app: its own icon on the home screen, no browser bars, and the pages you have already opened still readable when you have no signal.
Android
- Open this site in Chrome.
- Tap Install app in the menu, or the Install prompt Chrome offers by itself.
- Confirm. The icon appears with your other apps.
If neither appears, use the browser menu and choose Add to Home screen.
iPhone and iPad
- Open this site in Safari. Chrome on iOS cannot do this.
- Tap the Share button — the square with an arrow out of the top.
- Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen.
- Tap Add.
Safari offers no automatic prompt for this, which is why it has to be done by hand.
What works without a signal
Pages you have already opened, and the layout and icons, are kept on the device. A page you have never opened cannot be shown, and neither can anything that needs the server — signing in, the calculator's results, and the assistant all need a connection.
Check the date on anything you read offline. A stored page is a copy of what this site said when you last opened it. For a figure going into a filing, reconnect and follow the citation to the issuing body.
Four things to be careful about
1. Always click through to the source. This site is a fast way to find and understand official information. It is not a substitute for it. Anything going into a regulatory filing should cite the original publication.
2. Check the year on every number. Emission factors are dated. The newest is not automatically the right one — the right one is the one for the year you are reporting.
3. The calculator is for a rough estimate. It is useful for getting a sense of scale or sanity-checking someone else's figure. A report that is actually filed needs decisions this tool does not make for you, such as exactly which parts of the business to count.
4. Some entries are marked “indicative”. That label means the figure could not be confirmed against an official publication with full confidence. Treat those as a starting point for your own checking, not as settled fact. Entries without the label were verified against a primary source.
This site is information, not legal, accounting or assurance advice.