CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY AND ENVIRONMENTAL RIGHTS IN ASIA

4-5 OCTOBER

Bangkok, Thailand

ORGANIZER

ORGANIZERS

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH

STRATEGIC MEDIA PARNTER

About the Conference

The regional conference on Corporate Sustainability and Environmental Rights in Asia will bring together selected business leaders, investors, policy makers, academics and civil society champions to exchange views on the role of businesses and governments in supporting and strengthening the newly recognized right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. Importantly, the conference will also facilitate learning and dialogue around emerging regulatory norms involving biodiversity impacts and disclosure, environmental and human rights due diligence, decarbonization strategies and carbon markets, and ESG reporting.

CONCEPT NOTE

OBJECTIVES

Better understanding among business actors and experts on ways to reduce impacts on climate and the environment

Constructive dialogue between business, government and civil society on business policy formation, emerging regulatory requirements and enforcement measures

Stronger uptake by civil society, media and youth on specific environmental and climate-related priorities

Greater awareness of the potential positive contribution of business in addressing environmental priorities in a just and sustainable way

Who should attend?

Business: CSOs, CFOs, CEOs, Managing Directors, ESG Professionals, Sustainability Professionals
Finance Industry: CSOs, CFOs, CEOs, Managing Directors, Heads of Sustainability, Heads of ESG from the finance sector driving their internal sustainability strategies
Investors and Asset Managers: Directors of Sustainability, Heads of Sustainability and Heads of Sustainable Investing/Finance, Portfolio Managers at Asset Managers, Institutional Investors, Private Equity, Hedge Funds and Family Offices
Solution Providers: Business Development Directors, Consultants, Marketing Directors and Product Specialists providing solutions to businesses to help them with the sustainability and human rights due diligence challenges
Government: Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Chief of Staff, Other Senior Government Officials, Director Generals and Advisors
Not for profits: NGOs, Civil Society and Associations
Academia: Professors, Researchers and others
Press

Meet the speakers

Christophe Bahuet

Deputy Regional Director, UNDP RBAP

Livio Sarandrea

Global advisor, Business and Human Rights

Eugene Wong

Chief Executive Officer, Sustainable Finance Institute Asia

Dindo Campilan

Regional Director for Asia &Hub Director for Oceania, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Patricia Kameri-Mbote

Director - Law Division, UNEP HQ

Ma Jun

Founder Director, Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE)

Jessica Cheam

Founder and Managing Director at Eco Business

Pallavi Kalita

Advocacy and Asia Lead, Business for nature

Eelco van der Enden

CEO, Global Reporting Initiative

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Dr. Allinettes Adigue

Head ASEAN Regional Hub, Global Reporting Initiative

Poom Siraprapasiri

Consulting Partner, Corporate Sustainablity and Climate Change, ERM-Siam

Vivekenand Sistla

Head of R&D, Unilever Thailand

Christine Amour-Levar

Co-Founder, Investors for Climate

Louise Mabulo

Founder, the Cacao Project, Founder, Forbes Under 30 Young Champion of the Earth 2019, United Nations Environment Programme Ambassador for the Food and Land Use Coalition