Paid

Climate Change Management

Climate Change Management is an IBF-STS accredited course that provides participants with a comprehensive understanding of key climate change concepts, principles, and risk management issues relevant to their organisations’ activities. The course will cover basic climate science concepts, main international agreements and frameworks related to climate change, followed by concepts on climate reporting frameworks, guidelines, and principles. The discussion will then shift to focus on various economic and market risks, such as physical and transition risks, as well as opportunities that arise from climate change in the financial sector. Finally, it concludes by identifying key sources of climate risks and transmission channels that can impact the financial sector’s performance and sustainability factors.

Instructor

Dr Winston Chow is a Lee Kong Chian Professor of Urban Climate at Singapore Management University’s (SMU) College of Integrative Studies (CIS) and serves as the research pillar lead for urban systems at SMU's Urban Institute. He was the Principal Investigator of the multi-institute Cooling Singapore initiative from 2017-2026 and currently leads interdisciplinary research on how Singapore’s urban climate risks will change as its climate warms, as well as examining measures to reduce these risks. He teaches undergraduate, master's and executive development courses on climate change and urban sustainability at CIS, and also mentors CIS students on sustainability issues. In 2023, he was elected as Co-Chair of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) Working Group II on Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability, and he will help lead the Seventh Assessment Cycle for the IPCC during a critical decade of global climate action.

Modules

Basic Climate Science Concepts

International Agreements and Frameworks on Climate Change

Concepts of Climate Reporting Frameworks, Guidelines and Principles

Risks Arising from Climate Change

What Can Be Done to Lower Climate Risks?

Online. Learn at your own pace and convenience.

At the end of the course, participants in the financial sector should fulfil the following learning outcomes:

Disciplinary and Multidisciplinary Knowledge
Participants will understand how the confluence of scientific, social scientific, and humanities knowledge is essential to understanding climate change.

Global Knowledge
Participants will understand the main i) international agreements and frameworks on climate change, and ii) sustainability and climate change reporting frameworks.

Global Citizenship
Participants will be aware of how climate change risks, as well as various local, global, and personal actions and decisions can impact the larger international community (sectors, firms, individuals) through the larger-scale climate system.

The course is assessed based on the standard IBF accreditation scheme.

MCQ format
Individual assessment percentages are 20% per course unit/module
Overall passing rate: 80% or more overall and at least 50% per module

Bankers, Asset Managers, Insurance Professionals, Policymakers, Consultants, Accountants, Finance Industry Professionals

SGD 500. This course is recognised under the Standards Training Scheme (STS) and eligible for STS claims, subject to all eligibility criteria being met. Please refer to the IBF website for more information.

For enquiries on course registration through the iLearn platform, please contact the IMAS secretariat at ilearn@imas.org.sg or call 6223 7213.
For general enquiries, please email SGFC at sgfc@smu.edu.sg.