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Singapore has put in place policies to reduce its Greenhouse Gas Emissions by switching from fuel oil to natural gas. Today, about 95% of Singapore's electricity is generated from natural gas. To meet the longer term demand for natural gas, Singapore has put in place a Competitive Licensing Framework to allow flexibility in importing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) supplies on a tranche-by-tranche basis. This allows suppliers to bid in an open and competitive process to supply the next tranche of LNG to Singapore.

(...) Import controls are maintained by various administering agencies mainly for health, safety, security and environmental reasons, or under international agreements. The control regimes for goods subject to import prohibition and automatic or non-automatic licensing remain unchanged.

Export controls are implemented mainly for health, safety, security, or environmental reasons or to fulfil international commitments. (...)

Following parliamentary elections in 2015, in October of the same year the Government announced the creation of a Committee on the Future Economy (CFE). The CFE will build on and update the report by the Economic Strategies Committee of 2010, taking into account new global and domestic developments. The Committee will be chaired by the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Trade and Industry (Industry) as deputy, and aims to complete its work by end-2016. The CFE will address five areas: (...) (iv) Cities – to recommend strategies to enhance infrastructure and develop sustainable urban spaces; (...)

Singapore has been a firm and long-standing supporter of the Doha Development Agenda (DDA). At the 9th WTO Ministerial Conference in Bali in December 2013, the Minister for Trade and Industry called on Members to (...) start tackling new issues such as trade and environment, investment, non-tariff barriers and e-commerce; (...)

Regarding trade in services, the market access commitments follow a negative list approach. Singapore has made enhanced market access commitments compared with its GATS schedule in services sectors such as business services, courier services, telecoms, construction, distribution, education, environment, tourism, travel, recreation, and transport. The parties have scheduled a number of horizontal and sector-specific reservations for any future measures regarding investment and cross-border trade.

The agreement follows a positive list approach for services. The market access commitments for services cover, amongst others, environmental services, computer and related services, professional and business services, financial services, maritime transport services, telecom services, and courier and postal services.

The TPP consists of 30 chapters, as well as numerous annexes and side letters on bilateral matters. The agreement includes provisions on, inter alia, (...) environment; (...)

Since its creation in 1989, the 21 members of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) organization have adopted the principle of "open regionalism" without necessarily establishing a regional free trade area. Trade liberalization at APEC level has been pursued through voluntary and non-binding Individual Action Plans (IAPs) that are intended to indicate how countries plan to achieve the targeted goal of free trade and investment (Bogor Goals). Most APEC members have implemented a joint tariff liberalization initiative over the period 2012-16, whereby tariffs on 54 environmentally-friendly goods were either reduced or eliminated on an MFN basis. All the listed goods are already duty-free in Singapore. The tariff reductions are intended to promote regional trade in environmental goods, estimated by APEC at around US$300 billion within the region and US$500 billion globally.

(…) Certain business activities and services are subject to activity licensing or other forms of authorization. [25]

[25] For example, permits are required from the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) for health, safety, environmental, and intellectual property reasons for certain manufacturing activities (beer and stout; cigars; cigarettes; drawn steel products; chewing gum (other than medicinal gum and oral dental gum); and matches).