Singapore Says Deeper Emissions Cuts Will Need New Technology
Bloomberg | 11 February 2025
Singapore aims to extend cuts to greenhouse gas emissions through 2035, though warned progress will depend on successful development of new technologies and continued global cooperation on areas like clean electricity imports.
The city-state will aim to lower total emissions to between 45 million to 50 million tons by 2035, the National Climate Change Secretariat said in a statement Monday, outlining a new strategy submitted to the United Nations under the Paris Agreement. Emissions in 2023 were 74.3 million tons, according to data from the European Commission, and a previous goal set a target of 60 million tons by 2030.
Hitting the lower bound of the new 2035 target would keep Singapore “on a linear path to our net zero target in 2050,” the secretariat said. However, the nation has disadvantages in deploying renewables and the “pace of decarbonization depends heavily on developments in nascent mitigation technologies and international collaboration,” it said.
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