1.8 million Rwandans to get safe drinking water access under Singapore carbon credit project

Singapore has issued its first carbon credit project authorisation — a safe water supply project in Rwanda — under the Singapore-Rwanda Implementation Agreement, the National Environment Agency (NEA) announced on Saturday (Nov 14).The project is the first of such authorisations across the six operationalised implementation agreements Singapore has with Bhutan, Ghana, Mongolia, Peru, Rwanda and Thailand, marking a milestone in the Republic's international carbon market cooperation."These authorisations will support projects that mobilise carbon financing for emissions reductions and sustainable development," the agency said.Beyond milestones, the first authorised project supports Rwanda's climate priorities under its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), by improving access to safe drinking water. NDCs are formal climate action plans submitted by individual countries under the 2015 Paris Agreement to address global warning. Singapore was one of 13 countries that submitted their 2035 NDC before the Feb, 10, 2025, deadline.