Our Targets
Our Key Targets for the Green Plan
New targets announced at the Joint Segment on Sustainability (Committee of Supply 2021):
- Add over 130 ha of new parks, and enhance around 170 ha of existing parks with more lush vegetation and natural landscapes by end-2026.
- "80% of new buildings to be Super Low Energy buildings from 2030, and 80% improvement in energy efficiency over 2005 baseline for best-in-class green buildings by 2030
- New registrations of diesel cars and taxis to cease from 2025
- 8 EV-Ready Towns with chargers at all HDB carparks by 2025
- All new car and taxi registrations to be of cleaner-energy models from 2030
- 60,000 charging points nationwide, including 40,000 in public carparks and 20,000 in private premises by 2030
- Plant 1 million more trees.
- Increase solar deployment to 1.5 giga-watt peak (GWp) by 2025, and at least 2 GWp by 2030.
- Expand cycling network to 1,320km by 2030.
- Increase rail network to 360km by early 2030s.
- Reduce waste sent to our landfill per capita per day by 20% by 2026, with the goal of reaching 30% by 2030.
- Increase share of trips taken on mass public transport to 75% by 2030.
- At least 20% of schools to be carbon neutral by 2030.
- Promote sustainable fuels for international trade and travel.
- Phase out refrigeration and air-conditioning equipment that use high global warming potential (GWP) refrigerants from 4th quarter 2022.
- Use 15% less energy in HDB towns by 2030.
- Produce 30% of our nutritional needs by 2030 locally (30-by-30 target).
- Introduce an Enterprise Sustainability Programme, to help enterprises, especially SMEs, embrace sustainability and develop capabilities in this area.
- Create new and diverse job opportunities in sectors such as green finance, sustainability consultancy, verification, credits trading and risk management.
- Be a leading centre for Green Finance in Asia and globally, by building up the financial sector’s resilience to environmental risks, developing green financial solutions, build knowledge and capabilities, and leveraging innovation and technology.
- Promote homegrown innovation under the Research and Innovation & Enterprise Plan 2025, and attract companies to anchor their R&D activities in Singapore to develop new sustainability solutions.
- Green 80% of buildings by Gross Floor Area by 2030
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