Singapore’s Net Zero 2050 Vision
Singapore’s Net Zero 2050 vision underscores that everyone—governments, industries, businesses of all sizes, and individuals—has a crucial role to play in accelerating the low-carbon transition.
The Net Zero 2050 vision is a bold and transformative goal that aims to achieve net zero emissions by 2050, positioning the nation as a global leader in sustainability. This vision is driven by the Long-Term Low-Emissions Development Strategy (LEDS), which outlines a comprehensive approach to reducing emissions and fostering a low-carbon economy. Key initiatives include accelerating the transition in industry, economy, and society through energy efficiency improvements, carbon pricing, and green financing. Investments in cutting-edge technologies such as carbon capture utilization and storage (CCUS), low-carbon hydrogen, and electric vehicles are pivotal to this strategy.
The Singapore Green Plan 2030
The Singapore Green Plan 2030, or the Green Plan, is a national movement to advance Singapore’s national agenda on sustainable development. The Green Plan charts ambitious and concrete targets over the next 10 years, strengthening Singapore’s commitments under the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda and Paris Agreement, and positioning Singapore to achieve its long-term net zero emissions aspiration as soon as viable.
The nation’s ambitious Green Plan 2030 strategy is built on five key pillars--- City in Nature, Energy Reset, Sustainable Living, Green Economy and Resilient Future.
By leveraging our expertise, Schneider Electric can play a critical role in accelerating Singapore’s Net Zero journey, ensuring a sustainable, digital, and resilient future for all.
Our Focus Areas:
Schneider Electric has chosen four focus areas—Sustainable Living, Green Economy, Energy Reset and Resilient Future—where our company’s strengths can help map out tangible solutions.
By leveraging our expertise, Schneider Electric can play a critical role in accelerating Singapore’s Net Zero journey, ensuring a sustainable, digital, and resilient future for all.
Schneider Electric’s Part to Play
We are deeply committed to Sustainability and was recently ranked as the World’s Most Sustainable Company in Corporate Knights ranking in 2021. The achievement also marks the debut of our accelerated sustainability programme for 2025 with 6 commitments in sustainable business, planet and people.Locally, our business supports the Singapore Green Plan 2030 launched to achieve concrete sustainability targets in the next 10 years. We have also pledged our commitment to the Singapore Built Environment Embodied Carbon Pledge to help unify and amplify decarbonization efforts across sectors Explore Schneider Electric’s case studies on its contribution to 4 key pillars of the Green Plan.
Schneider Electric’s Commitment to Building a Greener Singapore
Every year, Schneider Electric conducts in-depth research and surveys with businesses to assess industry trends, measure sustainability progress, and understand the challenges and opportunities in the journey toward a net-zero future. These insights help us understand emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities, ensuring we stay at the forefront of innovation. We hope you find these reports valuable in driving your own sustainability and digital transformation efforts.
Going Green from Inside Out
Schneider Electric is delighted to partner with the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) for the first time to launch the “Going Green from the Inside Out: Accelerating Green Building Adoption in Singapore” report. This report showcases the critical challenges that need to be addressed and the key recommendations to accelerate green building adoption in Singapore.
Singapore Green Pulse Survey (August 2022)
Singapore’s Green Plan 2030 has made sustainability fundamental in the country’s growth and development. As part of our commitment to champion sustainability ambitions and accelerate action, Schneider Electric launched the Singapore Green Pulse Survey which aims to track the sentiments, attitudes and perceptions towards sustainability in Singapore over time. The survey also serves as a follow-up to our Building a Greener Singapore report.
For the second edition of the survey, Schneider Electric interviewed over 500 Singaporeans in June 2022 about topics relating to Singapore’s green transition, with focus on sustainable living.
Building a Greener Singapore 2022
This second edition of our Building a Greener Singapore report looks at the progress of organisations in Singapore around sustainability performance, with a focus on energy transition, over a 12-month period. The study finds that considerable positive momentum has been achieved across many areas, particularly in implementing sustainability policies and strategies, advancing climate change planning, and applying new technologies. It also highlights new challenges that are emerging in areas such as management buy-in, employment engagement, and culture change as plans move from strategic to active phases of implementation.
Singapore Green Pulse Survey (April 2022)
The first edition of the Singapore Green Pulse Survey was conducted in March 2022 and focused on key topics relating to the green transition priorities outlined in the Singapore Green Plan 2030 and announced as part of Singapore’s 2022 Budget.
Building a Greener Singapore October 2021
Schneider Electric supports all pillars of the Singapore Green Plan 2030.
To provide a deeper understanding of the attitudes and perceptions of consumers and business leaders around environmental sustainability as well as the level of preparedness of companies operating in Singapore, Schneider Electric launched the Building a Greener Singapore report in October 2021.
The Building a Greener Singapore presents and analyzes the findings of a survey of 500 business leaders with sustainability responsibilities and 500 consumers in Singapore.
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Our purpose is to empower all to make the most of energy and resources, bridging progress and sustainability in the world. Schneider Electric was ranked #1 as the Most Sustainable Company by Corporate Knights and is the #1 builder of microgrids in the world.In unison with the United Nations Paris Agreement, all participating countries will work towards limiting global temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius, and given the grave risks, strive for 1.5 degrees Celsius at best.With our headquarters in France and our business operating in Singapore for over 45 years, we are committed to support Singapore in their nation-wide efforts to tackle climate change in a collective manner.
Schneider Electric supports all pillars of the Singapore Green Plan 2030, with special focus in Sustainable Living (e.g. Schools), Energy Reset (e.g. EVs and Infrastructures), Green Economy (e.g. Jobs & Growth, Carbon & Energy Efficiency) and Resilient Future (e.g. Food Security).Our products and solutions cater to the needs of many sectors, including but not limited to Data Centre, Commercial Real Estate, Food & Beverages, Healthcare, Hotels, Life Sciences, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas, Residential Buildings and Transportation.Find out more about our case studies here.
At Schneider Electric, we aim to achieve carbon neutral operations by 2025, net-zero operational emissions by 2030 and a net zero supply chain by 2050.We also work closely with our ecosystem of suppliers and customers with being ‘Green’ as a key focus. For our customers, we aim to deliver 800 megatons of saved and avoided CO2 emissions with our solutions by 2025, and hope to provide solutions for net-zero carbon cities by integrating renewables.Find out more information about our sustainability achievement and goals here.
Schneider Electric provides energy and automation digital solutions for efficiency and sustainability. Our suite of EcoStruxure™ solutions have proven to help our customers achieve significant energy savings while transforming their operations with a focus on IT-OT convergence.We also work with our customers in their Climate and Decarbonisation Journey with a 4-step approach:1.Define ‘Success’ by aligning on your vision and strategyWe can provide leading market intel and trends, engage your stakeholders and envision your journey towards sustainability.2.Set targets by identify goals, prioritize actionsWe can work with you on a Top-Down/Bottom-Up Analysis and Program Structure Design. We will also assess your targets and develop a Carbon Roadmap with you.3.Deploy programme to drive performanceWe can help you along the journey of your Energy Procurement, Efficiency Program Execution, On- & Off-site Renewables, Offsets and Supply and Value Chain initiatives.4.Sustain Results by Measuring, Iterating and InnovatingOur solutions and services can provide Performance Tracking & Analytics, Internal & External Reporting, Operational Services and give you an insight to Innovations at the Edge.If budget is a concern, our Energy as a Service financing model may help. Organizations can purchase clean energy microgrids for zero upfront costs while we work with our partners to finance, build, operate, and maintain the microgrids, charging our customers a fixed monthly rate for green, resilient energy.If you’re interested in working with us, you may reach us here.
Whether it is the amount of CO2 saved, improvements in carbon and energy efficiency or other efforts towards the Green Plan’s key targets, organisations will observe transformation and growth in their business model, operations and P&L.
At Schneider Electric, over 75% of manufactured products have been awarded the Green Premium ecolabel which allows our customers to effectively develop and promote an environmental policy whilst preserving their business efficiency. The ecolabel guarantees compliance with the most up-to-date environmental regulations.
Alongside the Singapore Green Plan 2030, organisations can also apply for BCA’s Green Mark Certification to evaluate and validate their efforts in improving their facilities’ environmental performance.
We work with our customers through all stages of their operations across various industries, from energy management to automation and more. On a global scale, we have completed over 300 microgrid projects and helped customers reduce their carbon footprint with our EcoStruxure™ solutions and through our Energy & Sustainability Services company. On average, businesses achieve 20% reduction in carbon emissions, with more to come. Click here to view our Customer Success Stories.In Singapore, we have worked with organisations across various sectors involved in the Singapore Green Plan 2030, including but not limited to Education, Real Estate, Logistics and Agriculture. Click into each Green Plan pillar here to check out our case studies.
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