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From Our Leaders
President's Foreword
At the National University of Singapore (NUS), sustainability is a long-term commitment that shapes how we educate, research, innovate, design our campus, and empower leadership and action within our community.
Over the past three years, we have made progress in this mission. We have deepened interdisciplinary collaboration, expanded sustainability education, advanced impactful research, transformed our grounds into a living laboratory for sustainability solutions, and spearheaded sustainability initiatives both within and outside the campus.
This report reflects the progress we have made across these areas in 2025.
Professor Tan Eng Chye
President
National University of Singapore
Chief Sustainability Scientist's Message
With the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss upon us, and their consequences becoming ever more complex, we are seeing the creation of wicked problems. This leads us to the big question: how can we simultaneously grow more food, produce more energy, and conserve more biodiversity — while tackling the impacts of climate change?
The answer lies in mission-driven research that leads to impactful solutions. For that, we need experts from across disciplines to collaborate, to work seamlessly across domains and sectors, putting their minds and hearts together to solve the world’s hardest problems. It is this belief that sets the foundation for NUS Sustainable Futures, which frames the university’s approach to sustainability.
Professor Koh Lian Pin
Vice President (Sustainability and Resilience)
Chief Sustainability Scientist
National University of Singapore
