New campaign to pushing S'Pore at home, business, construction owner, Air-Cons at 25 DEG C, Singapore News

Singapore – A new campaign to build the owners home, business and structurally, appear their thermostats, started on May 16.

The residents of Go 25 Movement encourages the residents of Singapore to set the interior climate temperature in their houses, offices and buildings at 25 degrees C. The campaign is an initiative, which is housed under Go Green SG 2025.

According to the building and building authority (BCA), buildings make up more than 20 percent of CO2 emissions in Singapore, and the air conditioning system has a significant contribution to energy consumption.

This in turn creates a vicious circle in which hotter cities require more cooling, which leads to more emissions and heat and further increases the ambient temperatures, said the Ministry of Sustainability and Environment (MSE).

BCA also found that approximately 60 percent of electricity consumption in non -residential buildings are due to cooling systems, with mechanical ventilation an additional 10 percent.

Overcooling to what the spaces are cooled down with air conditioning increases power consumption, accelerates climate change and exacerbates the urban Heat Island effect.

The urban heat effect occurs when densely built areas have higher air temperatures than undeveloped rural areas.

“The achievement of our climate goals requires the collective efforts of all. Each of us has the personal responsibility to protect and manage our common environment for ourselves and our future generations,” said the high -ranking Minister of State for Sustainability and the Environment Amy Khor at the start of Go Green SG 2025 on May 16 in the Changkat primary school.

The start of the third edition of Go Green SG-Ein one-month campaign with activities for the public, schools and organizations in which you can participate was visited by President Tharban Shanmugaratnam and Senior Parliamentary Secretary for Sustainability and Environment Baey Yam Keng.

The campaign runs until June 29 and aims to gather the public to make Singapore a green, viable and air -conditioned nation.

Under the leadership of the Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC) and the MSE and supported by the National Environment Agency (NEA) and BCA three important initiatives: a promise, a personality quiz and an industry leader.

The promise encourages building owners, companies and organizations to commit to sustainable cooling, including the provision of cooling alternatives such as fans and the promotion of relaxed clothing rules among tenants and residents.

A downloadable toolkit that includes poster templates, social media assets and information sheets is promise that encourage stakeholders and others to also encourage “25”.

An online personality quiz entitled Go 25 Indoor Comfort Quiz was also created to teach users their ideal temperature profile and the advantages of higher internal temperatures. The knowledge gathered is summarized in a report published in June.

The report outlines the average temperature preference of residents in Singapore, basic energy saving potential and fast actions for business owners and tree managers.

The toolkit and the quiz can be accessed at Go.gov.sg/GO25.

Finally, an industry guide developed by SGBC and BCA is published in the third quarter of 2025 to increase the ambient temperature indoors.

Baey hopes that the government can set an example for companies and organizations throughout Singapore with more than 95 percent of the state buildings that have already passed Go 25.

A study by the center of Ngee Ann Polytechnic's Center for Environmental Sustainability showed that every degree that increased at the air conditioning temperature between 23 and 25 and 25 ° C showed up to 12 percent when reducing cooling energy without the increase in the occupant's complaint. The study was commissioned by MSE and SGBC and carried out between January and April.

NEA data also found that around 13 US dollars could be achieved for savings for every degree of households.

“Owners and companies can … complement the air conditioning with hybrid cooling solutions such as ceiling fans and include their tenants and occupants with sustainable cooling,” said Dr. Khor. “We can also dress light when we go in air -conditioned places such as shopping centers, choose fans about the air conditioning at home and encourage our family and friends to do the same.”

At the Go Green SG start event, SGBC and Capital and their energy-saving and green initiatives as well as the stands of NEA, PUB and the Singapore Food Agency were stood.

Through sustainability problems organized by Capital and entrepreneurs, small start-ups and entrepreneurs were able to set up and develop sustainable technologies that could be implemented in building construction and improvement. An example is Magorium, a local brand that surrounds plastic waste into bitumen that is used to combine roads.

According to Ted Howland, Vice President of Capital and Vice President of the Sustainability Group, Magorium plastic waste from capital and shopping centers, including the Raffles City Shopping Center and Plaza Singapore, used in the production of his bitumen. Capital and will also use this bitumen to pave the streets of its upcoming show flats and development projects.

“Each of these solutions represents a small but very important step that accumulates and makes us achieve our goals for sustainability in 2030. It is not about finding them a silver ball to solve everything because we don't believe that there is one of them,” he said.

The legal bodies under MSE also organized stands to educate the students about their respective stories and milestones in order to build a more sustainable and more environmentally conscious Singapore.

President Thaman started the newly built Eco hub of the Changkat Primary School, which offers the students a space to find out more about sustainability concepts such as circular economy, nutritional security and biological diversity through experimental learning. The highlight of the interactive space is a worm.

The Wurmay piloted in 2024 is cultivated by students from the basic and ECO clubs, which add to food back with compost boxes that were collected from the school canteen twice a week. They pour the compost mixture daily to ensure that the composting worms – African night warriors – remain healthy. After four weeks, the Vermicompost is ready for the school garden.

A memorial book SG60 GO Green SG e-comic book with characters who also draw three school students were also unveiled.

The book, which is pursuing the republic's environmental trip in the past 60 years, teaches the students how they keep waterways clean, reduce waste and support local products. From May 16, the books will be distributed to all elementary and secondary school children.

MSE organized by MSE together with around 400 partners will contain more than 900 activities, whereby the programs are gradually published in the course of the month. Some of these activities include guided ferry tours through the southern islands and a workshop for fungal cultivations.

Online registration for Go Green SG 2025 activities on May 12th. The public can visit www.gogreen.gov.sg to check the activities currently available.

Also read: Mean and Green: We take a closer look

This article was first published in the Straits Times. Approval required for reproduction.