Singapore sustainability obligations
The rules that actually bind: who they apply to, the thresholds that pull you in, and the dates each obligation starts. Every entry links to the issuing body's own text.
This is the timetable that decides when your company has to start publishing climate information. Every company listed on the Singapore Exchange must report its Scope 1 and Scope 2 greenhouse gas emissions...
These are the actual rules that make sustainability reporting compulsory for Singapore-listed companies. Rule 711A says you must publish a sustainability report alongside your annual report. Rule 711B lists...
Singapore is writing its own version of the global sustainability reporting standards. On 27 July 2026, ACRA's Interim Sustainability Standards Committee, working with SGX RegCo, released draft standards...
Knowing what to report is one problem; having somewhere to put it is another. ESGenome is the disclosure portal for SGX-listed companies, launched by MAS and SGX Group in September 2022. Gprnt is the...
Singapore was the first country in Southeast Asia to put a price on carbon. Under the Carbon Pricing Act 2018, a facility that directly emits 25,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent or more in a year...
Some Singapore factories compete directly against factories in countries with no carbon price at all. If they paid the full carbon tax on every tonne, production could simply move abroad - which would cut...
There are two separate obligations here and they catch very different numbers of companies. A facility emitting 2,000 tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent or more per year must register as a reportable...
Since 1 January 2024, a company liable for Singapore's carbon tax may pay part of its bill with international carbon credits instead of cash - but only up to 5 per cent of its taxable emissions, and only...
A carbon credit is only usable against Singapore's carbon tax if it comes from a country Singapore has a signed agreement with, and if the method used to create it appears on the list agreed with that...
If your company runs an energy-hungry site in Singapore, the Energy Conservation Act 2012 obliges you to manage that energy formally. The trigger is consuming more than 54 terajoules of energy a year at a...
If your company supplies packaged goods in Singapore and turns over more than S$10 million a year, you must tell NEA every year how much packaging you put into the market and what you are doing to reduce...
Companies that supply electrical and electronic products in Singapore are responsible for what happens to those products at the end of their life. Producers above set supply volumes must register with NEA,...
Mandatory food waste segregation and reporting (and why most existing buildings are not caught)
In forceSince 8 March 2024, owners and operators of certain large commercial and industrial premises must separate food waste for treatment and report the data to NEA. The rule is much narrower than it is usually...
Green Mark is Singapore's green building certification scheme, designed specifically for a hot and humid climate rather than borrowed from a temperate one. The Green Mark 2021 scheme took effect on 1...
Since 30 September 2025, BCA can require the owner of an energy-intensive existing building of 5,000 square metres or more to fix it. On receiving an audit notice the owner has 90 days to appoint a...
Singapore's financial regulator expects every bank, insurer and asset manager it supervises to treat environmental damage and climate change as financial risks, not as a corporate responsibility topic....
MAS Guidelines on Transition Planning for financial institutions (effective September 2027)
Phasing inOn 5 March 2026 MAS issued three sets of transition planning guidelines, as additions to the 2020 Environmental Risk Management Guidelines, covering banks, insurers and asset managers. They take effect in...
Most green finance rulebooks sort activities into green and not-green, which is a poor fit for Asia, where much of the economy is neither. Launched on 3 December 2023, the Singapore-Asia Taxonomy was the...
Green finance grant schemes: sustainable bonds, sustainable loans and sustainability reporting
In forceIssuing a green bond, arranging a sustainability-linked loan or publishing a first climate report all carry an unavoidable extra cost: paying an independent reviewer. Singapore subsidises that cost through...
The Enterprise Sustainability Programme is Enterprise Singapore's umbrella of support for businesses, especially smaller ones, building sustainability capability. Its funding has largely flowed through...
The Singapore Green Plan 2030, launched in February 2021, is the national sustainability roadmap. It is organised around five pillars - City in Nature, Sustainable Living, Energy Reset, Green Economy and...
Singapore's commitments under the Paris Agreement are to peak emissions and bring them down to around 60 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent by 2030, then to between 45 and 50 million tonnes by...