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.
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...