City Developments Limited strengthens climate and biodiversity commitments through bold targets and innovative initiatives in its 2025 Integrated Sustainability Report.
City Developments Limited (CDL) has released its 18th Integrated Sustainability Report (ISR) 2025, titled “Zero in on Action: Fast-Forwarding Towards Sustainable Ecosystems”. This milestone marks CDL’s 30-year journey in sustainability leadership and showcases its enhanced progress toward long-term Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) targets under the Future Value 2030 Sustainability Blueprint.
The report highlights CDL’s first-in-Singapore adoption of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) Recommendations, with expanded disclosures covering properties in New Zealand. This aligns with the company’s broader Growth, Enhance and Transform (GET) strategy, integrating climate action with biodiversity goals. CDL also secured a S$400 million sustainability-linked loan in 2024, the first of its kind tied to TNFD-aligned targets, aimed at nature conservation and sustainable development.
Key sustainability achievements include a 25% reduction in Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions and a 38% drop in embodied carbon for new developments, both against 2016 baselines. CDL also completed a pilot Internal Carbon Pricing (ICP) study at Republic Plaza, advancing plans to embed carbon pricing mechanisms in its real estate portfolio.
The company launched two major nature-based innovations in March 2025: the CDL EcoTrain and CDL MicroForest, both located at City Square Mall. The EcoTrain—a repurposed train cabin powered by solar energy—serves as an educational hub, while the MicroForest provides a regenerative tropical ecosystem designed to mitigate urban heat and enhance biodiversity in dense cityscapes.
Ms Esther An, Chief Sustainability Officer at CDL, stated: “Guided by our ethos of ‘Conserving as We Construct’, this year’s report underscores our ambition to accelerate sustainable innovation while nurturing nature-positive, resilient communities.”
The full CDL Integrated Sustainability Report 2025 is available in here.
