Climate Change and Sustainability: Leveraging Carbon Market Initiatives for Business 2023 | NUS Business School | 11 June 2023 | NUS Business School, 15 Kent Ridge Dr, Singapore 119245

Sustainability and climate change are now issues that are moving beyond corporate lip service into real world business costs, challenges, and opportunities.

Leaders and managers with some familiarity on climate change would know of the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. However, the details and business implications of these treaties may not be well understood by non-specialists.

Many corporates have set climate-neutrality / net-zero targets and will have to decide a pathway towards net-zero. In practice, corporates will need to make step-by-step decisions on the breadth and depth of their greenhouse gas emission reductions (direct, and indirect). They will also need to decide on the role of carbon credits in their transition period, and in their steady state (i.e. offsetting non-abatable emissions in the long-run).

This programmed breaks down the issues, and will help participants to understand and to take advantage of climate change opportunities today, and in the near future.

CORE FOCUS:

Basics of Climate Change, Policies & Frameworks
• Understanding Climate Change
• Politics & Economics of Climate Change
• UN Climate Framework
• Climate Policy Instruments

Corporate DeCarbonisation Strategies
• Fundamentals of Net Zero
• Role of Verified Carbon Credits (VCCs)
• VCC Overview & UN Legal Framework
• Responsible Use of VCCs

High-quality credits and markets. Getting to Net Zero
• Generating VCCs in the Real World
• Deep Dives into the Quality of VCCs
• From Project Quality to Price Signals
• Connecting the Dots

KEY BENEFITS:
This programme will equip participants to:
• Understand the strategic business opportunities of a global carbon market
• Leverage the global carbon market to help achieve climate goals in the public and private sectors

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
• Chief sustainability officers and Chief financial officers (for ESG reporting)
• Procurement professionals (of VCCs and related products)
• In-house project developers
• Private equity and other finance professionals (looking to invest in VCCs)
• Lawyers, accountants and other service professionals focusing on Environment, Social and Governance issues (ESG)
• Risk management officers
• Public policymakers (to understand voluntary markets and possible overlaps with compulsory markets)

2023 Speakers

CO CHAIRS:

Koh Lian Pin
Director, Centre for Nature-based Climate Solutions (CNCS); Professor of Biological Sciences, School of Science

Mikkel Larsen
CEO, Climate Impact X (CIX)

SPEAKERS:

Michael Blanding
Global Head of Sustainability and Impact Investment, Berge Bulk

Stephan Bognar
Director of Sustainability Asia for Wildlife Works Carbon (WWC)

David Catley
Business Development Lead, Asia, South Pole

Jeffrey Delmon
Senior Infrastructure Finance Specialist, World Bank

Owen Hewlett
Chief Technical Officer, The Gold Standard Foundation

Pamela Mar
Managing Director, Digital Standards Initiative (DSI) of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC)

Anshari Rahman
Vice President at GenZero, Strategy & Development Group