Singapore's National Hydrogen Strategy To Achieve Net Zero By 2050

Introduction

At the Singapore Energy Lecture on 25 October 2022 for the Singapore International Energy Week, Singapore announced its commitment to achieve: (i) "net zero emissions by 2050" as part of its LongTerm Low-Emissions Development Strategy ("LEDS"), and (ii) "reduce emissions to around 60 million tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (MtCO2e) in 2030 after peaking emissions earlier" as part of the revised 2030 Nationally Determined Contribution ("NDC"). Singapore will submit the revised LEDs and 2030 NDC to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCC) at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP-27). This follows numerous engagement exercises by the Government to obtain feedback, such as dialogue sessions with various groups and an online public consultation exercise by the National Climate Change Secretariat ("NCCS"). You may read more about the online public consultation in our Legal Update here, and a summary of the