Public Consultation on the Green Economy Partnership Agreement

A New Initiative on Trade and Sustainability

1. Singapore, Chile and New Zealand launched negotiations for the Green Economy Partnership Agreement (GEPA) on 31 October 2025.

2. Growth and sustainability are increasingly recognised as mutually reinforcing due to technological breakthroughs in alternative energy sources such as low-carbon fuels and waste-to-energy and growth in low-carbon solutions in recent years. The GEPA represents a new rules-based trade agreement that aims to support new opportunities and efficiencies for businesses and enhance trade and investment in green sectors while advancing decarbonisation of economies. Potential topics for the GEPA include:

a. enhancing trade and investment in environmental goods and services;
b. enhancing interoperability of standards and eco-labelling;
c. fostering coherence of emerging trade-related climate measures;
d. supporting trade in intangible environmental attributes (e.g. carbon credits; renewable energy certificates); and
e. deepening collaboration to promote the uptake of low-carbon solutions and sustainable practices among our key sectors.

Invitation to Provide Feedback

3. Negotiations for the GEPA will commence in 2026. The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) invite businesses and members of the public to provide feedback on the ways in which the GEPA could advance your business interests, and support Singapore’s growth in the green economy.

4. We would appreciate if you could provide your views at this link ↗ (opens in new tab). The public consultation period will be from 3 December 2025 to 16 January 2026.

5. Please note that all submissions received may be published and attributed to the respective respondents unless they expressly request MTI not to do so. As such, if respondents would like (i) their whole submission or part of it, or (ii) their identity, or both, to be kept confidential, please expressly state so in the submission. In addition, MTI reserves the right not to publish any submission received where MTI considers it not in the public interest to do so, such as where the submission appears to be libellous or offensive.