SINGAPORE – Despite being the world’s second-busiest container port after Shanghai, with a national record of 3.11 billion gross tons in arriving ship traffic in 2024, Singapore and its waters remain hospitable to a variety of marine and coastal wildlife.

The Republic is home to a third of the world’s hard coral species, half the number found in Australia’s Great Barrier Reef – the world’s largest coral reef system.

In an exclusive and informative guided tour by the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA), visitors will be introduced to the maritime ports of mainland Singapore and its Southern Islands.

This is just one of over 900 activities organised by the Ministry of Sustainability and the Environment (MSE), together with some 400 partners from across the people, public and private sectors, for Go Green SG in 2025.

There will be external activities for the public to partake in and internal ones conducted in schools and organisations. The aim is to rally the populace to make Singapore a green, liveable and climate-resilient nation.

Among the activities are a mushroom cultivation workshop by Mushroom World Academy held at Vidacity, tours of the Solar Energy Research Institute of Singapore – the island’s first inland floating solar farm – and upcycling workshops by Kong Wai Shiu Hospital. An adaptive reuse of the now-defunct Loyang Primary School, Vidacity is a hub for sustainability and agri-tech start-ups, social enterprises and innovators from tertiary institutions and the community.

First launched as Climate Action Week in 2020, the annual affair was revamped into a month-long campaign and rebranded as Go Green SG in 2023, after MSE saw growing interest in sustainability efforts among the public.

This third edition will be launched by President Tharman Shanmugaratnam at Changkat Primary School on May 16, and will run till June 29.

As it partially overlaps with the school holidays, families with children can participate in the activities during and outside the school term.

The 2024 Go Green SG campaign saw more than 50,000 people take part in over 400 activities, said MSE.

With 2025 marking 60 years of Singapore’s independence, Go Green SG will feature sustainability-related activities highlighting the nation’s progress in environmental efforts over the years, as well as intergenerational bonding.

MPA Sea Exploration Tour

Showcasing Singapore’s maritime sustainability and decarbonisation efforts...