Decarbonising Manufacturing: Building a Future-Ready Workforce for the Low-Carbon Transition
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Overview
Manufacturers are increasingly navigating the transition towards a low-carbon economy, driven by evolving climate risks, customer expectations, regulatory requirements and the need to remain competitive. This transition is also changing how work is performed and the capabilities organisations need across their operations.
Join KPMG and SBF to explore practical approaches to decarbonisation and workforce transformation, including key decarbonisation levers, business resilience and the workforce capabilities needed to support the transition. Participants will also gain insights into how EWTP and WDG(JR+) can support companies in translating business transformation priorities into practical workforce initiatives.
At this workshop, you will gain insights into:
✅ Understanding key climate risks, opportunities and decarbonisation drivers affecting manufacturing businesses
✅ Exploring practical decarbonisation levers that can support business resilience, operational efficiency and competitiveness
✅ Understanding how the transition to a low-carbon economy is changing workforce requirements, roles and capabilities
✅ Exploring how companies can build future-ready workforce capabilities to support sustainability and decarbonisation initiatives
✅ Learning about EWTP and WDG(JR+) and how workforce transformation support can help companies implement changes arising from their business transformation priorities
Event Detail
Date | Monday, 12th October 2026 |
Time | 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM |
Venue | Lifelong Learning Institute, Event Hall 2-2 |
Consultant / Organization | KPMG |
Programme/Agenda
This session explores how the transition towards a low-carbon economy is creating new business and workforce considerations for manufacturers. Participants will gain insights into key climate risks, decarbonisation levers and business resilience considerations, alongside the workforce capabilities needed to support sustainability and decarbonisation initiatives.
The session will also highlight practical experiences from companies that have embarked on decarbonisation journeys, providing participants with perspectives on how organisations can translate sustainability priorities into business and workforce transformation initiatives.
Key areas participants will hear about:
- Business resilience: Understanding climate-related risks and opportunities affecting manufacturing businesses
- Decarbonisation levers: Exploring practical approaches organisations can consider to reduce emissions and improve operational sustainability
- Workforce transformation: Understanding the workforce capabilities and changes needed to support the transition to a low-carbon economy
Time | Programme / Session | Speaker / Facilitator |
2:00-2:15 PM | Registration / Welcome | SBF |
2:15-2:30 PM | EWTP / WDG(JR+) Briefing | SBF |
2:30-3:15 PM | EWTP-Decarbonisation Programme Sharing | KMPG |
3:15-3:30 PM | Tea Break | |
3:30-4:30 PM | Panel discussion with companies that have onboarded the EWTP-Decarbonisation Programme | KPMG and Participating Companies |
4:30-4:45 PM | SWDA Briefing | SWDA |
4:45-5:00 PM | Closing / Q&A | Consultant + SBF |
WHY SHOULD I ATTEND
Key Learning Outcomes
Participants will:
- Understand how climate risks and the transition to a low-carbon economy may affect business operations, competitiveness and long-term resilience
- Explore key decarbonisation strategies and levers that organisations can consider to support their sustainability objectives
- Gain insights into the workforce capabilities and changes needed to support decarbonisation and evolving business priorities
- Learn how EWTP and WDG(JR+) can support companies in translating business transformation priorities into workforce transformation initiatives
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
- Sustainability / ESG managers
- Business owners and senior management
- Operations and manufacturing leaders
- Project / transformation managers
- HR / workforce transformation professionals
- Sustainability, transformation, operations and digital leads
- Companies exploring decarbonisation and workforce transformation initiatives
Monday, 12 October 2026 - Monday, 12 October 2026 
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Hall 2-2, 11 Eunos Road 8, Singapore 408601