NRF to invest S$90 million in new Decarbonisation Programme

27 August 2024

On 22 July 2024, the National Research Foundation, Singapore (“NRF”) announced a new CREATE Thematic Programme in Decarbonisation (“Programme”). NRF will invest S$90 million in the Programme which is an international collaboration comprising leading investigators from the National University of Singapore (“NUS”), Nanyang Technological University, CREATE partners, as well as top international experts from Max Planck Institute and Tohoku University.

There will be four main domains of research, namely:

• hydrogen utilisation, tackling issues in hydrogen and combustion technologies;

• ammonia energy, hard fuel cells, green chemistry, focusing on the sustainable conversion of biomass to chemicals and biofuels;

• synthetic biology engineering microbes to convert carbon dioxide to chemicals and biofuels; and

• chemical translation, developing net-zero pathways to produce health molecules for pharmaceutical applications.

NUS will work together with CREATE partners to implement the Programme.

Reference materials

The press release is available on the relevant webpage of the SG Press Centre website www.sgpc.gov.sg.