Marina Bay Sands partners SG Eco Fund to drive climate action

(right to left) Mr Paul Town, Chief Operating Officer, Marina Bay Sands; Ms Meridith Beaujean, Executive Director of Sustainability, Marina Bay Sands; Guest-of-Honour Ms Goh Hanyan, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment and Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth; Mr Desmond Ho, Trust Secretary, SG Eco Fund; and Mr Sridhar Kandhadai, Senior Vice President of Asia Property & Asset Management, Marina Bay Sands

1. Marina Bay Sands and the SG Eco Fund have announced a two‑year partnership to raise public awareness and galvanise community action on environmental sustainability and climate resilience in Singapore.

2. As part of the partnership, Marina Bay Sands and SG Eco Fund will present the Sustainable Futures Film Festival at ArtScience Museum, featuring a curated programme of films exploring climate change and biodiversity conservation.

3. The partnership will also include initiatives such as interactive exhibitions at ArtScience Museum centred on biodiversity and sustainability themes, alongside collaboration with SG Eco Fund grant recipients to deliver booths, art installations, learning tours and hands‑on sustainability workshops for students and the wider public.

Launch event at Sustainable Futures Film Festival

SPS Goh interacted with SG Eco Fund grant recipients including Pasarfish

4. To launch the partnership, Marina Bay Sands opened the Sustainable Futures Film Festival on 11 June with an exclusive screening of film trailers at ArtScience Museum. This season’s festival is held in support of Singapore’s Year of Climate Adaptation, drawing attention to the impacts of climate change, and bringing together multidisciplinary approaches and voices at the intersection of art, science and sustainability.

5. The launch event was witnessed by Ms Goh Hanyan, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment and Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth. Guests included Marina Bay Sands’ sustainability partners, community leaders, and SG Eco Fund grant recipients — Witteveen+Bos, Pasarfish, and PUB, Singapore’s National Water Agency — which showcased climate adaptation projects focused on food resilience, and flood and coastal protection in Singapore.

6. The launch was complemented by a private viewing of Into the Ocean: Journey Beneath, a world-premiere exhibition presented by ArtScience Museum in collaboration with OceanX, one of the world’s leading ocean exploration organisations. The immersive exhibition explores the hidden frontiers of the deep ocean, extending conversations on climate resilience.

SPS Goh exploring reef core samples from Cyrene Reef, Pulau Semakau and Pulau Hantu, tracing 8,000 years of reef formation in Singapore’s waters at Into the Ocean: Journey Beneath exhibition

7. Mr Sridhar Kandhadai, Senior Vice President of Asia Property & Asset Management at Marina Bay Sands, said: “Marina Bay Sands remains committed to supporting meaningful engagement on sustainability across Singapore. By working alongside the SG Eco Fund and like‑minded partners, we hope to create inclusive and intentional spaces for communities to connect with environmental issues in ways that are accessible, relevant and impactful.”

8. Mr Desmond Ho, Trust Secretary, SG Eco Fund, added: “Strengthening Singapore’s climate resilience requires the collective efforts of all stakeholders. Through this partnership with Marina Bay Sands, we want to amplify awareness on the impacts of climate change and the need for adaptation, and inspire more ground-up initiatives within our community.”

Exploring Climate Adaptation Through Film

A Life Illuminated (2025) by Tasha Van Zandt (credit to Autlook)

9. The Sustainable Futures Film Festival presents 12 complimentary film screenings at ArtScience Cinema from 12 June to 31 August 2026, bringing together ocean science, ecological urgency and cinematic imagination. Spanning documentaries, feature films and early cinema, the line-up traces how the wider ecology has shaped creativity and scientific inquiry.

10. The film programme unfolds across three thematic strands: Uncharted Waters spotlights the marine scientists – among them pioneering women researchers – devoted to revealing the ocean's secrets; Deep Imagination celebrates the sea as a wellspring of artistic inspiration, honouring its surreal and visionary pull; and Hidden Connections invites audiences to bear witness to a planet in profound transformation, revealing the fragile interdependencies that bind natural systems and human life.

11. Anchoring the festival are films such as A Life Illuminated (2025) and Blue Carbon: Nature’s Hidden Power (2023), which make their Asian and Singapore premieres respectively. A Life Illuminated (2025) by director Tasha van Zandt is a breathtaking portrait of marine biologist Edith Widder and her lifelong quest to illuminate the mysteries of deep-sea bioluminescence, and a stirring reminder of what is at stake in the collective effort to protect the oceans.

12. Blue Carbon: Nature’s Hidden Power turns to one of nature’s simple solutions to climate change: blue carbon ecosystems. The documentary uncovers how coastal habitats such as mangroves and salt marshes store carbon, protect coastal communities from rising seas, and support biodiversity.

13. For more information on the festival programme, please visit https://www.marinabaysands.com/museum/experiences/cinema/sustainable-futures-2026.html.