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The end of the beginning: reflections on starting 'my climate journey'
The end of the beginning: reflections on starting 'my climate journey'
After two and a half, exhilarating and life changing years working at the intersection of design, tech and venture…
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Philip Man shared thisAs we start 2025, I wanted to share a quick professional update — after an amazing few years at Terrascope, I will be leaving my role as COO and taking some time off before exploring what's next 🌱 It's always tough to leave a company and team, especially one where you were part of the inception. I'm grateful for the opportunity to build a climate-focused business and to live the startup journey. What makes me most proud is the incredible team we assembled — brilliant individuals from Sustainability, Technology, Product, Data, Commercial, Finance, Ops, People, and more, from across the world. My best memories from Terrascope come from working with this group through the highs, lows, hard times, and breakthrough moments. I gained so much from you all. Thank you for everything 💜 I'm also proud to see my colleagues step up to bigger challenges, take on greater roles, and create more impact. I'm a huge believer in Terrascope's future and know they will continue to make a real difference in the world 🌏 Deep thanks to Suresh Sundararajan and Sunny Verghese for being the visionaries behind Terrascope; to Maya Hari for being a champion and for the opportunity to become COO; to Paul Hunyor for all the ongoing inspiration along the journey, and to Anand Veeraraghavan, Marta Higuera, GAICD, Neels Steyn, Peter Cho, and to the BCG X team that supported my climate journey and put me in the position to lead this venture from Day 0. It's been a privilege. My heart is full of gratitude. And I will continue to cheer Terrascope on! 🙏 As someone who thrives on taking meaningful breaks from work (and it's been a long time since my last one), I plan to spend a few months getting healthy, learning new things, and reconnecting with family, the people who inspire me and the hobbies that bring me joy. Through this process, I know I'll gain fresh perspectives on what might be next and who might be the right people to do it with. I know that if I can help the people I have loved working with, great things will happen 🙋 To close, I wanted to share this quote by Joseph Campbell (thank you to the episode of Lenny's Newsletter with Alisa Cohn for bringing this to my attention) - "If you can see your path all the way through to the end, you are following someone else's path. Your path only becomes clear moment by moment as each foot hits the ground." ✨ Truly inspirational words to kick off 2025!
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Philip Man shared thisI love this provocation from Lia Nicholson, Head of Sustainability at Terrascope, colleague and friend, that if a company is going to participate in COP and talk to supporting positive climate action, then at a minimum they should have a completed a comprehensive emissions footprint and have a credible plan to reduce it. 🌿 Join us in urging enterprises attending COP29 to measure, disclose and commit to science-based targets. And together, building a more sustainable and resilient future! #COP29 #ClimateAction #SustainableFuturePhilip Man shared this#COP28 set new records for corporate executive attendance in Dubai - a huge milestone for the global climate action agenda. But have all actors arriving at COP done the essential groundwork of measuring, disclosing and setting targets across scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions? Let's raise the bar | Businesses, Financial Institutions and Other Actors Pledge Transparency and Ambition at COP29 https://lnkd.in/g8QGsfWM António Guterres Simon Stiell Christiana Figueres Peter Bakker Ben Caldecott Michael Gillenwater Sherry Madera Bill Hare COP28 UAE Dr. Sultan Al Jaber WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development Science Based Targets initiative CDP TerrascopeBusinesses, Financial Institutions and Other Actors Pledge Transparency and Ambition at COP29Businesses, Financial Institutions and Other Actors Pledge Transparency and Ambition at COP29
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Philip Man shared thisWelcome to our latest episode of Climate Cafe, a bimonthly fireside chat series hosted by Lia Nicholson, Terrascope's Head of Sustainability. We're excited to have Dr. Ben Caldecott to chat about real economy transition plans, food & beverage emissions, sustainable finance, and leading the change you wish to see in the world. We go live today, Tuesday 21 Nov @ 4 pm SGT | Register belowPhilip Man shared thisClimate Cafe is going live on LinkedIn! 🥐☕ Join us for a riveting session on LinkedIn Live with Lia Nicholson and guest speaker Dr Ben Caldecott, a recognised leader in sustainable finance and climate advocacy 🚀 Tapping into Dr Caldecott's expertise on finance, technology and climate change, we will dive into the future of sustainable businesses and how enterprises can continue to balance financial profitability and sustainability 🌱 🗓 21 November 2023 (Tues) ⏰ 4pm SGT Save the date and see you online! #ClimateCafe #LinkedInLive #SustainableFinance
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Philip Man shared thisReally proud of this initiative from the Terrascope team. #ClimateCafe is a content series to highlight diverse perspectives from across the sustainability ecosystem — with guests from the domains of science, conservation, policy, industry, technology, finance, supply chains and beyond. We hope these conversations, informed by our work at the intersection of tech, data, climate action, land and food systems, decarbonisation and green innovation, can contribute some new insights from Asia to the world. Special kudos to Lia Nicholson for generously hosting and the many colleagues behind the scenes making this happen 🙌 https://lnkd.in/gCf7G2qyPhilip Man shared this“The secret for change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new,” noted our Head of Sustainability Lia Nicholson in the second episode of Climate Cafe, our bimonthly fireside chat series. 🌟 🌎📈 In this episode, Lia delves into #climatetransition alongside Terrascope Sustainability Advisory Council members Claire Perry O'Neill (Co-Chair, WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development), Karen Coyne (Ex-Vice President and Global Head of Environment, Novartis) and Mari Kogiso (Co-CEO, SDG Impact Japan). Drawing on their extensive experience in #esg, the panel unpacks what a credible low-carbon transition looks like, along with the challenges and best practices in aligning #climateaction across financial, regulatory and corporate sectors. 🎥 Catch the full video or read our blog article to learn more! Links in the comment section below. #ClimateCafeTerrascope Climate Cafe with Claire Perry O’Neill, Karen Coyne and Mari KogisoTerrascope Climate Cafe with Claire Perry O’Neill, Karen Coyne and Mari Kogiso
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Philip Man shared thisExciting to be building out the Experience team at Terrascope. We're adding new team members specialising in Customer Support so we can better empower Japanese clients and partners on their decarbonisation journey 🌏 A shoutout to David Tomíček who leads our CS team. He great at what he does, and a great human being 💜 For those keen on furthering your career in CS, I can genuinely say that you'll learn loads from his passion, craft and experience 🚀 If you know someone who might be a great fit for the role and believes in the potential for technology and data to be a catalyst for more positive climate action, do share the opportunity 🙏 #hiring #japan #singapore #joinourteam #terrascopePhilip Man shared thisExciting news! We are actively seeking a talented and dedicated individual to join our team as a Japanese-Speaking Customer Support Executive! 🎉 At Terrascope, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional customer experiences and building strong relationships with our clients. As we continue to expand our global reach, we recognise the importance of providing outstanding support to our Japanese-speaking customers. If you're ready to take the next step in your career and contribute to an organisation that values your skills and growth, we would love to hear from you! Feel free to share this opportunity with your network, as there may be someone in your connections who is a perfect fit for this role. #hiring #customersupport #opportunity #joinourteam #terrascope
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Philip Man shared thisAt Terrascope we are on a mission to help decarbonise the world, one customer at a time. And to guide companies on the most impactful actions they can make on their journeys to #netzero 🌱 It's a privilege to be able to work with such experienced sustainability champions and global leaders as Claire Perry O'Neill, Karen L. Coyne, CPEA®, GCB.D and Mari Kogiso as we build our decarbonisation platform and expand across Asia Pacific, Europe and beyond 🌏Philip Man shared this📣 Introducing our new Sustainability Advisory Council! 🌱 Our sustainability advisors bring decades of experience in ESG and sustainability across global markets 🌟 Their wealth of expertise will be instrumental in ensuring that our SaaS platform provides large companies worldwide with the best guidance and support to achieve #decarbonisation and #netzero goals with confidence 🔍 📉 Please join us in welcoming Karen L. Coyne, CPEA®, GCB.D, Claire Perry O'Neill, & Mari Kogiso to Terrascope! 👏 #climatetech #climateaction #climatesolutions #carbonemissions #carbonfootprint #carbonaccounting #ESG #sustainabilityleadership
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Philip Man shared thisA special moment at #Terrascope with Lia Nicholson hosting our first ever #ClimateCafe with Angel Hsu, PhD 💜 It was an inspiring discussion covering everything from data, emissions reductions, technology, corporate action, GHG standards, China and more 🌏 We look forward to inviting the climate community to future sessions as we take #ClimateCafe on the road. Coming soon! ☕ Link to full video : https://lnkd.in/g7g5v-sFPhilip Man shared this🌟 Introducing Climate Cafe, a fireside chat series by Terrascope. ☕️ In our first episode, Lia Nicholson, Head of Sustainability, Terrascope, speaks with Dr. Angel Hsu, PhD, a renowned expert in environmental sustainability and co-founder and director of Data-Driven EnviroLab. Dr. Hsu shares her valuable insights on the importance of data in driving sustainable action, climate initiatives, green tech, and ESG 🌱📊 🎥 Catch the full video linked in the comments below ⬇️ #ClimateCafe #carbonaccounting #climateaction #climatetech
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Philip Man shared thisExcited to be in London for Economist Impact Sustainability Week (March 29th-31st) to learn more about how the world's leading organisations are progressing on their decarbonisation journey and the challenges they still face. And also to hear feedback from the business and sustainability leaders on Terrascope's offering of decarbonisation platform and sustainability expertise. If you're curious on how digital tools, assistive-AI and a data science led approach to carbon measurement can help guide companies on the most impactful actions to take on the journey to net zero, do reach out. We're excited to connect. Lia Nicholson, Paula Tongue, Manuela Cosentino, Philip Man #decarbonisation #netzero #carbonaccounting #climateactionPhilip Man shared thisGlad to share that Terrascope will be joining the #Economist London #Sustainability Week. Our team in #london will be happy to connect with #customers, #partners and leaders in the #sustainabilty space. Stay tuned for more exciting news coming! Paula Tongue Manuela Cosentino #sustainabilty #london #esg #carbonaccounting #decarbonisation #sustainabletransformation
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Philip Man liked thisPhilip Man liked this“My job is to marry different perspectives and find overlap–it’s a superpower of designers to unpack what goes beyond words. My role as a designer is to figure out what the biggest question is at any point, then make it visible so people can solve it together.” Gloria Chua has taken that superpower and leveraged it to: -Redesign Singapore's national digital identity app during COVID -Build another app that reconnected 900,000 migrant workers with their families -Work on crypto infrastructure at Anchorage Digital Now she leads designers at the Ministry of Education, Singapore (MOE). The thread running through it all started at the d.school, where Gloria learned to use design to create clarity out of ambiguity. Click through to read her full story now: https://lnkd.in/ghUriT97 Dropbox, GovTech Singapore
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Philip Man liked thisPhilip Man liked thisWith a lot of gratitude, I am deeply honoured to receive the Singapore's Public Sector Transformation Award: Exemplary SkillsFuture Award (ESFA), an award that recognises public officers who embody the spirit of continuous learning and skills upgrading, while helping others grow along the way. This recognition belongs as much to everyone whom have groomed and invested in me in the last 3 years. Over the past 21 months, shortly after completing my SMU Master of IT in Business, I joined the newly formed Digital Innovation & Ventures Accelerator (DIVA) in MOE. With a new office came new expectations: to pioneer new ways of building digital products, turn ideas into impact from 0 to 1, and help grow product capabilities across the organisation. It was an incredibly exciting period, but also one of the most demanding. Alongside leading national digital products, building and coaching cross-functional product squads, driving the MOE {build} Hackathon while upskilling myself continuously amidst age of AI. There were many moments that pushed me well outside my comfort zone and looking back, those experiences shaped my resilience, strengthened my judgment, and taught me lessons that no classroom could. This award means far more to me than individual recognition. It reminds me that the true value of learning isn't measured by the skills we acquire, but by the culture of curiosity, humility, and growth we help foster. I like to thank 3 groups of people: 1. To my DXD leaders Jason See and Luke Goh, thank you for believing in my potential, trusting me with meaningful opportunities, and continually stretching me beyond my comfort zone. Your guidance has shaped both my growth and the way I approach innovation. Also credits to my SPSD/CSB leaders - Olivia and Augustine Mah for all the great wisdom earlier. 2. To my teammates and colleagues across MOE, our partner divisions and GovTech, thank you for your partnership, encouragement, and countless conversations. So much of what I have learnt has come not from courses, but from working alongside all of you. Xingyu Qiao, 👩💻Eileen Kang, Lay Hui Tan, Hatsumi Kanashima, Lancelot, Gabriel Ho Leo Li Janis Lee, Pamela Kiew, Derrick Hoi, Anne Seow, Ameline Ang, Matthew Tan, Jeremy Chan, Matthew Goh Shi Jie Chen, Justyn, Bing Qian, Astrina Fitria Rachmat &many 3. To SMU Master of IT in Business for equipping me with a suite of technical and non-technical skillsets in Digital Transformation Track. One of my biggest takeaways has been the incredible pple I had the privilege to meet & learn from - Darren Thayre Siu Loon HOE Kar Way Tan Kelvin Lee Gwyneth Tey, Andy Hue Guo Xing Ricky Tan Nann Tin Nwe Aye Azfarihin Aziz Vik Ayyer, 睿凯 Minh-Thu N. & many.. As tech continues to evolve, I aspire not only to keep learning, but also to help build the capabilities, products, and communities that enable others to innovate with heart, skills and confidence.
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Philip Man liked thisIncredibly proud of the team supporting the discovery and product build to make MSF’s new unit a reality! Coordinating across different MSF divisions, related agencies and releasing a novel first version of the underlying platform to flag future child abuse is no trivial task… Kudos to Victoria Koo Nav Pawera Eric Desmars Philip Man Alicia Tan Nuno Jonet Jerald Kiew Fazeela Basha Jiayi L. Li XiaoNa !! And thank you as always Erlina K. and Nicolas K. For your leadership and partnership 🙏Philip Man liked thisHow do you design a national capability for child protection when the stakes couldn't be higher? Today feels significant because the project I had the honour of working on was finally announced publicly. More importantly, the safeguards being put in place are truly making an impact. The work was featured in The Straits Times, showing how Megan Khung’s case might have unfolded differently had this capability been in place. https://shorturl.at/pmPvf, https://shorturl.at/4DM6d Over the first 6 months of this year, I had the privilege of serving as the Design Lead for SAFER, previously known as Project Lighthouse or Social Service Coordination Center (SSCC). It was a multi-agency initiative with MSF aimed at preventing child abuse through early detection of risk signals. At the heart of the discovery work was to rethink child protection as preventive work, rather than "responding to crisis" work. Putting on my service design hat, my team and I focused on 3 critical decision gates in the journey that needed tightening: 1) How cases were surfaced, and what channels these concerns were surfaced through. 2) What triaging tools were used to decide if a case should be taken on and the criteria used to determine whether it required intervention. 3) Where cases were routed, where they sat, how they were tracked, and which parties were responsible for it. To understand this, we had to quickly learn the lay of the land: the existing processes and workflows, the many stakeholders involved, and how a case was handed from one party to another. I built a child protection ecosystem map to make these interconnections visible, and to help our stakeholders stay anchored on a child-centred view, without losing sight of it amidst the complexity of processes, systems, and policies we had to navigate. This work laid the foundation for a sharper focus: "It’s not just the known issues that we should be concerned about. It’s the ones that almost made it into the system but didn't; those that required attention but were missed or dropped." It shaped how we approached designing of the sensemaking system. We needed to establish a shared understanding of what “risk” meant to different parties and across different agencies, and therefore, what signals we were actually looking for. This is why I believe a human-centred approach can complement technology and development work. By bringing the people, processes and lived realities into the room early enough, it surfaces considerations that may otherwise remain invisible. It was a complex but deeply meaningful work, and I’m incredibly grateful to have played a part in it. To everyone across MSF, ITG and the partner agencies who trusted the process, trusted us, and pushed the thinking forward, it's been worth the while. 💛 P.S. Today is doubly, if not triply meaningful also because I just officially graduated from the 6-month Essential Managers Programme, as part of its very first cohort, and on my birthday.New MSF unit analyses data from police, CNB and other agencies to flag child abuse earlierNew MSF unit analyses data from police, CNB and other agencies to flag child abuse earlier
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Philip Man liked thisPhilip Man liked this🌟 Reimagining Learning. Redesigning Classrooms 🏫 Great to be at this year’s School Workplan Seminar, and privileged to be part of the conversations on how we can reimagine learning, redesign our classrooms and better support our educators. At the heart of it all is a simple question: how can we help our teachers do their best work, and our students learn and grow better? 🌱 That means creating more time and headspace for teachers, designing better learning experiences, and using technology purposefully to make work simpler and more effective. Awesome to see our Teacher Workspace team contributing to this effort 🚀 (Rong Cong Gary Goh Wondo J. Gloria C. Xingyu Qiao Alex Ng Hoon Ling Lim Shin Eik T. Guang Shin Tan and many others) — working closely with educators to simplify workflows, connect the tools and information they need, and free up more time for what matters most: teaching and nurturing our students. Grateful for the team and grateful to play a part in this collective endeavour — supporting our teachers, helping every student thrive, and moulding our next generation for the future. 🇸🇬✨ #MOE #FutureOfLearning #DigitalTransformation #TeacherWorkspace #DXD #OOTD
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Philip Man liked thisPhilip Man liked this💡 Think. Prompt. Solve. AI in Action at MOE’s Prompt Royale. 🚀 What started with 360+ participants and 41 duo teams came down to 5 finalist duos at MOE’s Prompt Royale 2026 finals — tackling real MOE work challenges live, with just 10 minutes to think, prompt and deliver. 🔥 Congratulations to our Top 3 Winners! 👏 🏆 Champions — Kenny Sng & Tan Wee Lin, Assumption English School 🥈 1st Runners-Up — Ee Teo & Frederick Chan, DXD × RMID 🥉 2nd Runners-Up — Guo Youjun Eugene & Lee Jin Wee, Riverside Secondary School Three key reflections: 💡 Human expertise still matters. Even with the same challenge and AI tools, the teams produced very different solutions — shaped by their domain knowledge, judgement and creativity. 🌱 The bigger win is learning. Many participants were not technical users, but learnt quickly through the competition. The real impact comes when they bring that confidence and learning back to their teams and help others get started too. 🚀 The opportunity ahead is much bigger. AI is not just about productivity. It is about helping our people work better, enabling our educators to teach more effectively, and preparing our young people to thrive in an AI-driven world. A big thank you to all our participants, our judges DS James, DS Zhi Hui and DyC Chern Wei, Nicole Lee and the organisers Angel Lee Luke Goh for making this possible. 🙏 Great energy, great learning — and another step forward in growing our confidence and capability with AI across MOE! #AIinEducation #PromptRoyale2026 #DigitalTransformation #LearningTogether
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