Written Reply to Parliamentary Question on National Adaptation Plan

Question:

Mr Dennis Tan Lip Fong: To ask the Minister for Sustainability and the Environment (a) whether Singapore plans to submit a National Adaptation Plan to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change; and (b) if so, when, noting that Singapore has previously published an Adaptation Communication and included an adaptation component in its Nationally Determined Contribution.

Answer:

Mr Speaker, as I had announced at COS 2025, we are developing Singapore’s inaugural National Adaptation Plan, or NAP in short, which will serve as our long-term living strategy for Singapore to continue thriving in the face of climate change.

We plan to publish our first NAP in 2027, which will also be submitted as a standalone document to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). This builds on our Adaptation Communication and updated Nationally Determined Contributions which were submitted to the UNFCCC in 2022 and 2025 respectively. This will take into account domestic efforts and international developments, such as the framework for indicators to track progress on the Global Goal on Adaptation (GGA) which was recently adopted at COP30. We will share more details on the NAP at COS 2026.