Best-in-Class in Environmental Sustainability and Energy Efficiency - Sustainability Lead (Classroom and Asynchronous e-learning)
About This Course
The course is specially curated to equip participants with strategic insights from overseas leading firms in sustainability and innovation, addressing the purpose:
• To draw insights on industry best practices to drive decarbonisation, circular economy, and climate mitigation and adaptation strategies as well as gain a mindshare from leading companies in overseas on how they have developed company and workforce capabilities and integrate sustainability into their business strategies and development goals.
• To examine overseas’ sustainability ecosystem through meetings and site visits facilitated by overseas business/market leaders, including emerging industry regulations, frameworks, trends, technologies and developments in sustainability.
• To establish new strategic business partnerships in overseas with the aim to curate and co-develop a sustainability lead: best-in-class programme that aligns with the needs of Singapore businesses.
What You'll Learn
(a) 2-day of pre-trip to introduce key concepts on environmental sustainability & energy efficiency by introducing climate strategy fundamentals as well as global and local regulatory landscapes of climate actions and carbon management. It will also cover how sustainability impacts businesses in terms of competitiveness. It also covers how businesses can identify and understand the company’s environmental, social and governance (ESG) related opportunities and risks. In addition to exploring how materiality can impact business strategies.
(b) 5-day of overseas mission trip to learn industry best practices in environmental sustainability & energy efficiency. This includes an appreciation of business sustainability strategies, leadership, innovation and human capital. In addition, there will be visits to leading technology/application centres championing sustainability to better understand how advanced energy efficiency technologies and applications are adopted across different industry sectors. There will be a deep dive into how companies drive sustainability and proliferate into company business culture and employees.
(c) 2-day post trip to consolidate the learning and identify next actionable steps for sustainability transformation. It enables business leaders to apply tools such as Green Compass to assess their current operations, product life cycle and supply network, among other things and identify key follow-up actions to make their operations more environmentally sustainable.
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
1. To cultivate a mindshare of sustainability for businesses and organisations.
2. To adopt business sustainability strategies and technological interventions to drive decarbonisation or net zero.
3. To assess business operations for implementing more environmentally sustainable solutions.
Entry Requirements
C-suite executives or equivalent; key personnel who are leading Operations; Facility Management; Environmental Sustainability; Projects; Product Development; Procurement; etc