Sustainability Management
Sustainable Banking
Embed ESG into every corner of your bank's operations and decisions. ESG is no longer a side conversation in banking, it's shaping credit decisions, portfolios, and client relationships. This programme equips your team to embed sustainable banking practices across operations, products, and client engagement.
Programme duration
8 hrs
Delivery mode
Online, Live
Certificate issued by
TEMBUSU Academy
Format
8-Hour Executive
Next Public Cohort
Dates
To Be Announced
Time
To Be Announced
Format
Online, Live
Duration
8 hrs total
To Be Announced
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WHY SUSTAINABLE BANKING MATTERS
Climate risk is becoming a credit risk, but most banks haven't caught up yet.
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central banks and financial regulators globally now mandate or expect formal climate risk management guidelines for commercial banks
COURSE OBJECTIVES
What you'll walk away able to do
ESG is no longer a side conversation in banking, it's shaping credit decisions, portfolios, and client relationships. This programme equips your team to embed sustainable banking practices across operations, products, and client engagement.
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Practical ESG Fluency
Confidently articulate why ESG matters to your role and apply it to real banking use cases.
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Embedded Sustainability Practice
Learn how sustainable banking principles can be applied across a bank's operations, products and services.
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ESG Risk Management Application
Apply a relevant ESG risk management framework to real banking use cases, from lending to portfolio management.
YOUR LEARNING PATHWAY
Two topics, one classroom exercise
This course moves from understanding ESG as a banking risk to applying sustainable banking principles hands-on, through a real climate scenario exercise.
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ESG and Climate Change as a Threat
Understand the economic, social, environmental and governance factors reshaping banking.
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Banking on Sustainability
Learn to apply sustainable banking principles across operations, supply chain and customer portfolios.
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OUTCOME
Climate Scenario, Solved as a Team
Put your learning into practice through an engaging climate scenario, working as a team to identify risks and brainstorm solutions within real-world resource constraints.
COURSE OUTLINE
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This course is designed as a practical, scenario-based introduction, so no prior ESG or sustainability background is assumed.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
Built for the people shaping how your bank manages climate risk
Bank Executives and Strategists
Set the direction for how ESG shows up across your bank's strategy and client relationships.
Risk Management Professionals
Learn to fold climate risk into the credit and portfolio risk frameworks you already use.
Lending Officers and Portfolio Managers
Understand how climate risk factors into underwriting and portfolio decisions in practice.
Compliance and Legal Officers
Get ahead of the regulatory guidelines central banks are increasingly formalising.
Operations and Supply Chain Managers
See how sustainability principles apply to your bank's own operations, not just its lending book.
Sustainability and ESG Specialists
Translate general ESG knowledge into banking-specific application.
General Bank Employees
Build a working understanding of why ESG matters to your bank, whatever your role.
ABOUT TEMBUSU ACADEMY
Practitioner-led, not textbook-led
TEMBUSU Academy is the education division of TEMBUSU Asia Consulting, a leading environmental and sustainability consulting company. Our programmes are crafted and delivered by highly experienced environmental and sustainability professionals, grounded in real-world knowledge and practical application.
Our Pedagogy
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Interactive formats: discussions, group activities, practical exercises
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Case studies drawn from decades of consulting experience across sectors
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Direct engagement with trainers and peer-to-peer learning
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Custom corporate programmes tailored to your organisation's needs
COURSE TRAINER(S)
Learn from people who've done the work
LEAD TRAINER
Er. TAN Seng Chuan
Er. Tan holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Civil) and Master of Science (Building Science) from the National University of Singapore. He is a Professional Engineer (Civil) and Chartered Engineer (Environment & Water) registered in Singapore, a GRI Certified Sustainability Professional, an NEA accredited GHG Lead Verifier and a Senior Practicing Management Consultant (Sustainability) certified by SBACC.
Er. Tan has 40 years of professional experience covering Engineering, Environmental and Program Management in the sectors of Sustainability, Climate Change, Environmental, Water, Energy, Manufacturing, Built Environment & Infrastructure, Chemical and Petrochemical, Oil & Gas and other infrastructure projects in the Asia Pacific region.
Some of the representative projects include Financing Low-Carbon, Climate-Resilient Urban Infrastructure in Asia and the Pacific for ADB, Jurong Island Air Quality Study for NEA, Deep Tunnel Sewerage System and Changi Water Reclamation Plant for PUB, Petronas Sustainability Development Program which includes low carbon, energy efficiency, air emission and water management initiatives and other Industrial Program Development.
CO-TRAINER
Chris SNG
Chris holds a B.Eng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and Continuing Education for Professionals in Sustainability with the Singapore Management University Academy. Chris was part of the Carbon Management team at the UN Global Compact Network Singapore (GCNS) where he was involved in carbon accounting training for companies and research on emerging trends in global sustainability initiatives such as environmental and carbon legislation, carbon pricing, and reporting standards. With close to over 15 years of experiences across the Oil & Gas and the Aviation industry and as a Senior Consultant at TAC, Chris supports businesses in realizing their ambition towards a more sustainable future by providing advisory to better alignment their corporate reporting with both international and local reporting standards such as ISSB, GRI, TCFD, SASB, UN SDGs and the development of their decarbonization roadmap.
SCHEDULE & FEES
Pick your training format
Looking to bring this in-house for your team instead? See Corporate Training below.
Please note:
Refunds are not allowed; participants may defer to the next available course date. Course fee excludes any bank charges for overseas fund transfers. In the event minimum enrolment is not met, TEMBUSU Asia Consulting reserves the right to adjust scheduling; participants will be notified with alternative options where possible.
FOR TEAMS & ORGANISATIONS
Train your whole sustainability function at once
Customised training programmes directly addressing your organisation's reporting challenges, delivered by the same practitioners, using case studies relevant to your industry, and designed to help your team build stakeholder trust while complementing GRI with the other reporting standards your business already uses.
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Interactive sessions that foster collaboration within your team
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Practical case studies relevant to your industry and context
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Learning aligned to your organisation's sustainability objectives
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Cost-optimised for training multiple employees simultaneously
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