Sustainability: The Next Challenge

Sustainability: The Next Challenge, offered by NUS Business School Executive Education, is a three-day executive programme designed to help professionals understand emerging sustainability challenges, with particular emphasis on ESG and climate change. The programme focuses on integrating environmental and social considerations into strategic and operational decision-making while helping organisations identify approaches that support long-term business success and societal impact.

Core Content

The programme explores sustainability principles, ESG, climate change, decarbonisation, and emerging economic models that can support more sustainable business practices. Learners examine approaches including the Circular Economy and Doughnut Economy, while also exploring strategies for integrating ESG into organisational decisions and developing approaches to reduce carbon emissions. The course connects sustainability concepts with practical organisational planning and implementation.

Key Skills

Participants will develop the ability to integrate ESG considerations into strategic and operational decisions and assess their relevance to organisational performance. The programme builds skills in sustainability strategy, ESG management, climate action, decarbonisation, circular economy thinking, sustainable business models, strategic planning, and assessing environmental and social impacts.

Target Learners

This programme is designed for business leaders, managers, sustainability professionals, and decision-makers working across organisations including listed companies, SMEs, social enterprises, and public agencies. It is particularly relevant for professionals who need to incorporate ESG and climate considerations into business strategy, operations, organisational planning, or sustainability initiatives.

Learning Format

The programme is delivered as an intensive three-day, in-person executive programme at the Mochtar Riady Building, NUS Business School, Singapore. The next run is currently listed as TBA. The learning experience combines sustainability principles, practical tools, strategic discussions, and applied approaches to ESG integration and organisational decarbonisation, helping participants connect sustainability concepts with real business and organisational challenges.

Additional Benefits

The programme provides a practical introduction to how organisations can respond to the growing strategic importance of ESG and climate change. Its inclusion of emerging economic models and decarbonisation approaches gives participants additional perspectives for developing sustainable business strategies. The programme is also rated 5/5 by SkillsFuture Singapore, providing an additional indication of its professional recognition.

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