Singapore to slash greenhouse gas emissions intensity 36% by 2030

It’s banking on improving energy efficiency.

Singapore is aiming high in its goals to go green, as the National Climate Change Secretariat (NCCS) has unveiled the Singapore Climate Action Plan.

According to the NCCS’ media release, Singapore is looking to slash greenhouse gas emissions intensity by 36% compared to 2005 levels by 2030. Also, the city-state is striving to stabilise its emissions with the aim of peaking around 2030.

“Improving energy efficiency will continue to be Singapore’s key strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and plans have been made to expand the scope of current initiatives across all sectors, namely the power generation, industry, buildings, transport, household, waste and water sectors,” said the release.

For the industrial sector, a study commissioned by NCCS projected that up to 20% of energy saving could be achieved by 2030 compared to business-as-usual levels. NCCS reported that there were “significant opportunities” in the petroleum, petrochemical, and semiconductor sub-sectors.

NCCS further shared that Singapore will also invest in low carbon technologies, as well as scale up low carbon solutions for deployment in Singapore.

“Our plan is to raise the adoption of solar energy to 350 MWp by 2020, compared to 60 MWp today,” revealed NCCS.