Remarks by Singapore’s Ambassador for Local weather Motion at Beat the Heat and Global Cooling Watch

REMARKS BY SINGAPORE’S AMBASSADOR FOR CLIMATE ACTION AT BEAT THE HEAT AND GLOBAL COOLING WATCH REPORT LAUNCH, BELÉM, BRAZIL, 11 NOVEMBER 2025

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Excellencies, women and gents

I commend Brazil and UNEP for launching this initiative to strengthen
warmth resilience and the Global Cooling Watch report.

Heat is not only an area nuisance. With world temperatures persevering with
to rise, it’s a systemic threat with world penalties. According to IPCC
AR6, about 1 billion individuals in South and Southeast Asia might be affected
by excessive warmth.

Heat stress undermines public well being, reduces labour productiveness, strains
electrical energy methods at instances of peak demand, compromises meals storage and
transport, and may amplify humanitarian pressures that ripple throughout areas.

As a extremely urbanised city-state within the tropics, Singapore takes a severe
view of those dangers. By 2100, temperatures in Singapore are anticipated to
exceed 35 levels Celsius nearly on daily basis.

We are ramping up our warmth resilience.

• We are investing in strong local weather projections to higher perceive the
  dangers posed by excessive warmth.

• We have formulated nationwide heatwave response plans for each the overall
  public and particular teams that are extra susceptible to warmth stress.

• We are growing revolutionary options akin to cool paint for buildings
  and cooling vests for out of doors work.

• We are taking a regional perspective to reinforce our collective capability
  for a warmth resilient Southeast Asia.

We look ahead to contribute to world efforts to strengthen warmth resilience
by sharing our data and capabilities in addition to studying from the
expertise of others.

Beat the Heat is exactly the car the world wants: a mechanism
to show pledges into implementation, to de-risk funding, and to diffuse
scalable options throughout nations.

Minister Grace Fu will set out extra particulars on 18 November on the Global
Cooling Pledge Ministerial Roundtable on how we will deepen collaboration
in warmth resilience.

Thank you to Brazil and UNEP for reminding us that:

• tackling warmth shouldn’t be non-obligatory — it’s a necessity;

• it’s not an area subject, it’s a shared duty.

Let us pool our experience, strengthen our instruments, and scale our options
by way of deeper partnerships for a extra climate-resilient world.