EY Climate Resilience Center of Excellence launches in Singapore to help organizations translate climate ambition into action

The Center of Excellence brings together multidisciplinary capabilities, technical knowledge and ecosystem collaboration to help organizations address climate resilience challenges across Southeast Asia.

The EY organization today announces the launch of the EY Climate Resilience Center of Excellence (CoE) in Singapore. The CoE brings together multidisciplinary capabilities, technical knowledge and ecosystem collaboration to help organizations address climate resilience challenges across Southeast Asia.

Guest-of-honor, Grace Fu, Minister for Sustainability and the Environment and Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations, officiated the opening of the CoE.

The CoE is co-led by Sunil Yadav and Amandeep Bedi, both Partners in Climate Change and Sustainability Services at Ernst & Young LLP. Together, they currently lead a team of more than 20 professionals in the CoE across Southeast Asia, with plans to expand further over the years. The CoE team is part of the EY Climate Change and Sustainability Services (CCaSS) practice, which has over 200 experienced professionals in the region.

This latest CoE builds on the momentum by the EY CCaSS team across Southeast Asia over the past decade. According to UNESCO, Southeast Asia is one of the regions most vulnerable to the effects of climate change, where rising sea levels and intensifying natural hazards affect millions of people in densely populated areas and coastal zones. As such, the region has made a strong commitment to collectively address the challenge of climate change. Notably, Singapore is developing its first National Adaptation Plan and designated 2026 as the Year of Climate Adaptation. These signal the country’s commitment toward bringing together various stakeholders to strengthen climate resilience so that we can thrive in the face of climate change, making it an ideal location to set up the CoE.

This CoE follows the EY Center for Sustainable Supply Chains that was launched in 2023, which led to the participation in regional sustainability forums to help companies across Southeast Asia build capabilities in areas such as lowering the carbon footprint of supply chains and decarbonization. As well, it developed Singapore-focused initiatives such as the Queen Bee Enabled Sustainability Transition (QUEST) program, which was introduced to help small- and medium-sized enterprise suppliers with their sustainability journeys, as well as worked with business and trade associations to launch sustainability playbooks for companies in sectors such as manufacturing.

Liew Nam Soon, EY Asia East Deputy Regional Managing Partner, Asean Managing Partner, and Singapore and Brunei Managing Partner at Ernst & Young LLP, says:
“The conversation around sustainability has evolved significantly over the years. Today, sustainability and climate resilience are no longer separate agendas, but are fundamental to how businesses manage risk, drive growth, strengthen competitiveness and create long-term value. Organizations that embed sustainability and climate resilience into their core strategy will be better-positioned to navigate uncertainty and seize new opportunities.

With the launch of the EY Climate Resilience Center of Excellence today, we take our longstanding focus on sustainability a step further. We are not only tapping on our capabilities, knowledge and experiences but also working together with ecosystem partners, to allow organizations to better understand the climate challenges that their businesses face, and help them build and enhance their resilience to climate change and create business value for the long term.”

Ecosystem approach to building climate resilience and articulating business value

The CoE is designed with an ecosystem approach in mind, bringing together governments, businesses, investors, academia, technology providers and development organizations to address shared resilience challenges. It will support organizations across varying levels of maturity in climate resilience. Larger organizations may require enterprise-wide transition or investment programs, while smaller enterprises may benefit through sector-based initiatives, shared tools, capacity-building programs, value-chain engagements or grant- and partner-supported projects.

Through an enterprise-based approach, the CoE aims to address environmental and societal needs by bringing together policy- and market-led initiatives, and create practical pathways for organizations in a rapidly changing climate environment.

The CoE team members include engineers as well as climate and sustainability specialists and practitioners with experience in biodiversity, policy, sustainable financing, gender and social inclusion. This multidisciplinary approach allows EY teams to combine technical capabilities with strategic advisory and implementation support, helping organizations translate climate ambition into actionable and investable solutions.

Amandeep Bedi, Co-Leader of the EY Climate Resilience CoE, notes that many Singapore-based organizations with operations across the region may have the necessary mechanism to track their carbon footprint within the country. However, beyond Singapore, this visibility becomes uneven as the most significant emissions are often Scope 3 emissions arising from the supply chain and other value chain providers.

He adds:
“Leveraging the EY network across Southeast Asia, the CoE aims to support boards and C-suites to build a more complete view of their carbon footprint across the broader value chains in the region where data visibility and consistency can vary. It also seeks to help boards and C-suites translate and materialize climate resilience into measurable financial value. This means helping them understand how climate risks and decarbonization can affect business and long-term performance through factors such as rising insurance premiums, supply chain and operational disruptions, business continuity challenges and resource shortages.

Hence, the real test of climate resilience is whether organizations can make the economics work. That means prioritizing the emissions-reduction measures with levers that offer the strongest business case, sequencing capital accordingly and adapting plans to Southeast Asia’s energy and regulatory realities. When decarbonization and sustainability decisions are grounded in commercial value, organizations can accelerate implementation and sustain progress.”

To help organizations enhance their climate resilience, the CoE will address the multiple dimensions of the climate crisis through three overarching themes of climate resilience:

• Energy resilience: Advancing low-carbon, efficient and diversified energy systems that simultaneously support decarbonization, strengthen energy security and increase resilience to climate and geopolitical shocks.
• Climate adaptation: Reducing vulnerability to physical climate impacts so that infrastructure, communities, ecosystems and economies can continue to function and thrive in a changing climate.
• Nature and biodiversity: Preserving the ecosystems and natural capital that provide critical services, reduce climate vulnerabilities and support long-term economic, environmental and social stability.

Sunil Yadav, Co-Leader of the EY Climate Resilience CoE, says:
“What differentiates the EY Climate Resilience CoE is not a single tool or framework, but its ability to bring together policy- and market-led initiatives and ecosystem players, including governments, businesses, investors and not-for-profit organizations, to address shared priorities through key enablers such as carbon markets, just transition and sustainable financing. This collaborative approach helps organizations move beyond strategy toward actionable investment agenda with measurable outcomes — strengthening resilience while creating long-term business, economic and societal value.”

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