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.
OBJECTIVES
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Better understanding among business actors and experts on ways to reduce impacts on climate and the environment
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Constructive dialogue between business, government and civil society on business policy formation, emerging regulatory requirements and enforcement measures
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Stronger uptake by civil society, media and youth on specific environmental and climate-related priorities
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Greater awareness of the potential positive contribution of business in addressing environmental priorities in a just and sustainable way
Who should attend?
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Business: CSOs, CFOs, CEOs, Managing Directors, ESG Professionals, Sustainability Professionals
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Finance Industry: CSOs, CFOs, CEOs, Managing Directors, Heads of Sustainability, Heads of ESG from the finance sector driving their internal sustainability strategies
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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
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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
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Government: Ministers, Deputy Ministers, Chief of Staff, Other Senior Government Officials, Director Generals and Advisors
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Not for profits: NGOs, Civil Society and Associations
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Academia: Professors, Researchers and others
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Press
Meet the speakers
Regional Director for Asia &Hub Director for Oceania, International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)
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
Madhushree Narayan
Responsible Sourcing Program Manager, The Circular Initiative
TRAN MINH QUANG
Member of CYMG to UNEP, Environmental Activist, Youth Advisor of UNYAP
Mrinalini Rai
Director, Women4Biodiversity
The conference will be held in person at the United Nations Conference Center in Bangkok, Thailand. All sessions will also be live streamed.