ERM expands Singapore hub to accelerate growth in the region

SINGAPORE – 20 May 2024 – ERM, the world’s largest specialist sustainability consultancy, broadcasts the growth of its Southeast Asia (SEA) hub in Singapore, additional strengthening its capacity to advance the inexperienced economic system and sustainability throughout Asia. Supported by the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB), ERM’s growth will assist deepen its sustainability impression with main organizations in the region.

The resolution to set up the SEA Hub in Singapore is a testomony to the city-state’s place as a key regional centre with a vibrant ecosystem and demand for progressive sustainability options. With a powerful pipeline of initiatives and rising curiosity in sustainability, the SEA Hub will function a focus for ERM’s regional actions, enhancing its capability to ship cutting-edge options and providers to shoppers throughout Asia.

ERM shall be ready to create up to 40 new roles, constructing capability and functionality throughout numerous sustainability imperatives, together with:

1) New Energy;
2) Integrated Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Due Diligence;
3) Monitoring, Reporting & Verification (MRV); and
4) Sustainable Asset Retirement.

Comprehensive coaching and mentoring applications will nurture native expertise and assist to guarantee a talented workforce able to driving sustainable growth in the region.

The Singapore growth plans will allow ERM to lengthen its intensive expertise working with shoppers from throughout the Asia Pacific region, and globally, on their decarbonization journeys. ERM’s latest work in this house consists of serving to a big industrial cluster to develop plans for to transition manufacturing to renewable energy and inexperienced hydrogen, and serving to a big energy firm to develop a method to shut its fossil gas turbines and substitute them with a mixture of wind, photo voltaic and battery storage.

Tom Reichert, Group CEO at ERM, mentioned: “We are excited to deepen our roots in Singapore and contribute even additional to the region’s sustainable growth targets. ERM’s function is shaping a sustainable future with the world’s main organizations. We are delighted that, with the help of the EDB, we’re poised to improve our impression in the region with the goal of serving to to ship a extra sustainable future for Asia.”

Lim Wey-Len, Executive Vice President of EDB, mentioned: “Singapore is dwelling to a various ecosystem of carbon providers firms shaping decarbonisation efforts in Southeast Asia. We welcome the growth of ERM’s regional hub in Singapore, which can deepen our capabilities in areas equivalent to carbon markets, the deployment of hydrogen as a substitute power supply and the early decommissioning of coal vegetation. We look ahead to partnering with ERM in their subsequent section of growth and creation of recent job alternatives in the sector.”