Carbon Measures opens Singapore office for carbon pilot

Carbon Measures announced at COP31 that it has opened a Singapore office and launched an in-country pilot for product-level carbon accounting in hard-to-abate industrial sectors.

The organisation said the Singapore office would serve as its Asia-Pacific hub and focus on industrial decarbonisation policy for hard-to-abate sectors. It said the pilot would test product-level carbon accounting and product-level carbon intensity standards in the marine fuels sector.

Carbon Measures said bio-liquefied natural gas would be the first product tested, with marine shipping as the initial use case. It said the pilot would examine how carbon information can be measured, tracked and transferred across the value chain, from production through combustion.

The organisation said it would consult Singapore government agencies and engage marine fuel supply chain companies, nonprofit organisations and academic partners. It said the pilot would also test how technology can support calculation, verification and transfer of product-level carbon information.

Lim Wey-Len, executive vice president of the Singapore Economic Development Board, welcomed the office and said the pilot could create collaboration opportunities with Singapore's industrial ecosystem and help develop carbon-accounting expertise.

Carbon Measures chief executive Amy Brachio said the Singapore pilot would test how product-level carbon intensity standards can work in practice. Ricardo Mussa, global chair of SB COP, said the collaboration was intended to bring business expertise into climate action and public policy.