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.

All Buildings Carbon markets Carbon pricing Energy Finance Reporting Targets Waste

The Carbon Pricing Act and Singapore's carbon tax

In force
Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment and the National Environment Agency · 1 January 2019; current rate effective 1 January 2026

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...

Applies to: Industrial and power-generation facilities in Singapore that directly emit at least 25,000 tCO2e of greenhouse gases in a year.
Carbon pricing carbon taxCarbon Pricing Act25000 tCO2e 6 key dates

Carbon tax relief for trade-exposed industry: the Transition Framework

In force
National Climate Change Secretariat, MSE and EDB · 1 January 2024

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...

Applies to: Existing emissions-intensive, trade-exposed facilities already liable for Singapore's carbon tax and competing in...
Carbon pricing transition frameworktransitory allowancesEITE 2 key dates

Measuring and reporting emissions to NEA: the two thresholds, the Monitoring Plan and the Emissions Report

In force
National Environment Agency · 2019

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...

Applies to: Any facility in Singapore emitting 2,000 tCO2e or more per year (reporting only), and any facility emitting 25,000 tCO2e or...
Carbon pricing EDMAMonitoring PlanEmissions Report 3 key dates