Sustainability updates from Singapore – a round-up from October to December 2025

In the last quarter of 2025, Singapore deepened decarbonisation capabilities, both in infrastructure and in talent, while strengthening cross-border partnerships in carbon markets and renewable solutions.

Here is a round-up of key developments and what they mean for businesses. 
 

1. Celebrating 25 years of Jurong Island

What began as a bold bet by our early leaders to build up a land-efficient energy and chemical industry has been transformed into a highly integrated, globally competitive chemicals hub. 

On its 25^th anniversary, a slew of new launches reflect Jurong Island’s delicate new balancing act – going green while sustaining jobs and growth. From a planned low-carbon data centre park with a capacity of 700 megawatts, to 300 hectares of land (10 per cent of the island) being allocated for new energy solutions, such as the hydrogen-ready back-up power plant, Singapore continues to deftly navigate these demands.

The island’s next chapter in sustainability is shaped by industry partnerships and innovative infrastructure developments, including Sembcorp’s newly launched solar farm, the largest in Singapore, and A*STAR’s Low Carbon Translational Testbed (LCT³), which will enable companies test emerging green technologies cost-effectively.  LCT³ will provide companies with resource-efficient, modular facilities to testbed emerging low-carbon technologies and scale them for commercial development. The likes of CRecTech, FlueVault, Metha8 and Turnover Labs have expressed interest in utilising this facility to scale their solutions.
 

2. Driving regional carbon market growth

In a move that signals growing market confidence in Singapore’s sustainability landscape, the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market (ICVCM), a global body that sets carbon credit standards, has established its first overseas office here. It will serve as ICVCM’s Asia Pacific hub.

Singapore has also signed a bumper crop of eight Article 6 Implementation Agreements with various countries this year, including our first two Southeast Asian partners, Thailand and Vietnam (see Figure 1 below for a compiled list of carbon deals signed so far). Meanwhile, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, launched a S$15 million grant at the Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW) to encourage financial institutions to participate in carbon markets. 
 

Figure 1 – Implementation Agreements signed (as of Dec 2025)

3. Supporting regional growth in renewable energy

Across Asia-Pacific, renewable energy is scaling quickly, creating both competition and opportunity for developers, buyers and ecosystem enablers. An International Energy Agency report highlighted that renewable capacity in Asia-Pacific could nearly double to 670 GW between 2025 and 2030.

Singapore is also working with partners in ASEAN to draft a framework for cross-border trade of renewable energy certificates within ASEAN that will standardise tracking and accounting.

At the SIEW in October 2025, Singapore renewed our commitment to diversifying our energy mix by launching a regulatory sandbox for the use of biomethane as a low-carbon fuel, and signed new partnership agreements to study nuclear energy.
 

4. Sustainable aviation fuels

As a global aviation leader, Singapore has made headway in ramping up usage of sustainable aviation fuels (SAFs). Southeast Asia’s first SAF facility by refining and chemicals player Aster and startup Aether Fuels will begin construction on Pulau Bukom in 2026. The newly-created company SAFco and the implementation of a SAF levy on all passengers departing from Singapore will help to stabilise demand and production of SAFs in furtherance of our sustainable air hub blueprint.
 

5. Singapore’s talent makes an impact in the sustainability and chemicals industry

Reaching our net zero goals requires a gamut of specialised roles and skillsets across various industries and organisations. As a talent hub, Singapore has a growing pool of talent that contribute to the development of the industry here, and to global greening efforts. 

Read about the journeys of four Singaporeans helming important roles in global chemical companies, in a recent article by local news outlet Mothership:

• Jerlyn Tan, VP for People and Corporate Affairs at Advario, a liquid storage logistics company;
• Mohammad Hafiz Bin Rahmat, senior process technician at Cariflex, who helped build its largest synthetic rubber latex plant in the world on Jurong Island;
• Jolyn Thang, technical service scientist at Lubrizol, a company that focuses on specialty chemicals, formulates skincare products that make people look younger in just days;
• Ng Chun Siong, process engineer at Arkema, a French specialty materials company, helped to develop the operating guides for their new bio-based materials industrial plant on Jurong Island.
  
  

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