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Projected growth in Asia-Pacific air travel within 20 years
CAAS, 2025
Established July 2025 · Singapore · Regional mandate
Advancing sustainable aviation
across the Asia-Pacific.
A Singapore centre with a regional mandate. APSAC works with governments, industry, and academia — through policy research, collaboration, and capacity building — to help Asia-Pacific states meet their aviation decarbonisation commitments.
Founded by
Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore
Founding CEO
Philip Goh, former Regional VP, Asia-Pacific, IATA
Chaired by
Han Kok Juan, Director-General, CAAS
Advisory Council
Airbus · Boeing · Chevron · ExxonMobil · GenZero · IATA · Neste
The challenge
Asia-Pacific's skies will carry triple the traffic — and must carry none of the carbon.
2050
ICAO Long-term Aspirational Goal: net-zero international aviation emissions
ICAO LTAG
1 → 5%
Singapore SAF target trajectory from 2027 to 2030
CAAS, 2026
Every long-haul flight out of Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok or Sydney compounds the question: how does the world's fastest-growing aviation region decarbonise without clipping its own wings? That question is APSAC's reason to exist.
About the Centre
A Singapore centre with a regional mandate.
Established in July 2025 by the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, APSAC exists to help Asia-Pacific states balance aviation growth with their climate commitments — through policy research, inter-organisational collaboration, and capacity building.
The Centre is led by founding CEO Mr Philip Goh and chaired by Mr Han Kok Juan, Director-General of CAAS. It draws authority from an Advisory Council that spans aircraft manufacturers, energy majors, the global airline industry body, and green finance.
Three pillars
Research. Convene. Train.
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Policy Research
Evidence for the region's hardest aviation decisions.
- —Cleaner aviation fuels
- —Carbon accounting
- —Carbon market development
- —Green financing
02
Collaboration
Joint studies and projects across government, industry and academia.
- —Convenes Asia-Pacific states, private sector and academic partners
- —Hosts roundtables, symposia and working groups
- —Runs shared trials and demonstrations
03
Capacity Building
Technical assistance and training in sustainable aviation policy.
- —Flagship course 'Growing Aviation Sustainably' with Singapore Aviation Academy
- —In-person learning in Singapore with APAC policy-makers
- —Builds a community of practice across the region
Year-one priorities
What APSAC is doing first.
- 01 Assess Asia-Pacific states' sustainability needs and plans.
- 02 Engage private sector and academic partners.
- 03 Launch joint projects, studies and trials.
- 04 Develop capacity-building programmes and host conferences.
Leadership
Led by a career airline executive. Chaired by Singapore's aviation regulator.
Philip Goh
Founding CEO, APSAC
A 37-year aviation veteran — 34 years at Singapore Airlines (rising to Regional Vice President across West Asia & Africa, Southeast Asia, and the Southwest Pacific) and three years at IATA as its Regional Vice President for Asia-Pacific. As APSAC's founding CEO, Philip leads the Centre's research agenda, Advisory Council engagement, and capacity-building programmes.
Han Kok Juan
Board Chair · Director-General, CAAS
As Director-General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore, Han Kok Juan leads the regulator that set APSAC up and authored the Singapore Sustainable Air Hub Blueprint that APSAC's work now regionalises.
Advisory Council
Seven founding partners across aviation, energy, and finance.
APSAC's Advisory Council brings manufacturers, fuel producers, the airline industry's global body, and a Temasek-backed decarbonisation investor into one room — the coalition required to move SAF, carbon markets, and green aviation finance at the scale the region needs.
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Airbus
Aircraft OEM
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Boeing
Aircraft OEM
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Chevron
Energy
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ExxonMobil
Energy
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GenZero
Green financing · Temasek
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IATA
Airline industry association
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Neste
SAF producer
Flagship programme
Growing Aviation Sustainably.
APSAC's foundational capacity-building course, co-developed with the Singapore Aviation Academy.
In person, in Singapore
A multi-day programme that convenes Asia-Pacific policy-makers for lectures, site visits, and working sessions — with speakers drawn from Singapore Airlines, Changi Airport Group, and APSAC's Advisory Council.
A community, not a classroom
The course's deliberate by-product is a standing community of regional sustainable-aviation policy-makers. That network is how technical assistance, benchmarking, and shared trials actually move.
Milestones
From Blueprint to net-zero.
APSAC sits inside a longer Singapore decarbonisation arc that began with the Sustainable Air Hub Blueprint and points at ICAO's 2050 goal.
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2023-11
ASEAN Sustainable Aviation Action Plan adopted
29th ASEAN Transport Ministers Meeting adopts the 10-year ASAAP, shaped under Singapore's 2022–2023 chairmanship of the ASEAN Air Transport Working Group.
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2024-02
Singapore Sustainable Air Hub Blueprint launched
Launched at the Changi Aviation Summit; submitted to ICAO as Singapore's State Action Plan for decarbonising aviation.
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2025-07
APSAC launched
Asia Pacific Sustainable Aviation Centre established by CAAS at the Global Aviation and Maritime Symposium; Roundtable on Advancing Sustainable Aviation held 14 July 2025.
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2026-02
SAFCo central-procurement MOU signed
At the 3rd Changi Aviation Summit, CAAS, SAFCo, BCG, Changi Airport Group, DBS Bank, GenZero, Google, OCBC, Temasek, Singapore Airlines and Scoot sign an MOU to launch Singapore's first trial for central procurement of SAF.
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2027
1% SAF target takes effect
SAF Levy collection begins 1 January 2027 (applicable to tickets sold from 1 October 2026), funding procurement through a statutory SAF Fund managed by CAAS.
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2030
Goal to raise SAF target to 3–5%
Subject to global developments and wider availability of SAF.
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2050
Net-zero international aviation (ICAO LTAG)
ICAO's Long-term Aspirational Goal, to which the Asia-Pacific region has committed.
Ecosystem
Where APSAC sits in the wider stack.
From ICAO's 2050 goal down to a litre of SAF uplifted at Changi, the decarbonisation stack has many tiers. Each has a specific job to do.
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Work with APSAC.
This is a design-concept site — but enquiries are welcome, and we'll point you toward the real Centre where appropriate.
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