Overview

Businesses across Asia are deeply reliant on nature and ecosystems; from water regulation and soil fertility to pollination, coastal protection, and climate stability.1 In a region where economies are heavily integrated into agriculture, fisheries, forestry, extractives, and manufacturing supply chains, this dependency translates into direct operational and financial exposure. Investor coalitions are signaling that nature-related risks must be integrated into core risk oversight and stewardship expectations.2 Capital markets are treating biodiversity exposure as a structural risk factor — not a peripheral sustainability issue.  

 

Nature loss is also fundamentally a human rights issue. Ecosystem degradation directly affects the rights and livelihoods of communities whose wellbeing depends on healthy ecosystems. For companies sourcing agricultural, forestry, fisheries, or mineral commodities, impacts on ecosystems can translate into human rights risks across supplier networks, particularly where land-use change, deforestation, or resource extraction affect Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLCs). As nature loss accelerates, these impacts increasingly intersect with internationally recognized human rights, including the right to food, water, health, livelihoods, and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment.

 

Managing nature-related risk is a debate in boardrooms, as companies map out responses to sourcing shifts, land-use decisions, conservation investments, and restoration initiatives. A rights-based approach provides companies with a structured mechanism to prioritize severe impacts, strengthen stakeholder engagement, and prevent escalation into operational disruption or legal exposure. 

 

This CSERA 2026 Resilience Lab focuses on how businesses can apply human rights and environmental due diligence to biodiversity exposure as a means of de-risking operations and strengthening long-term resilience. Moving beyond high-level commitments, the session translates nature-related risk into concrete management decisions, drawing on real examples from Asian sectors. 

 

Participants will examine how ecosystem dependencies intersect with indigenous people’s rights, livelihoods, and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The workshop will demonstrate how early, meaningful engagement with rightsholders reduces volatility, strengthens investor confidence, and supports continuity. 

 

Key discussion areas include: 

• Mapping ecosystem dependencies and material biodiversity risks 

• Applying rights-based due diligence to nature-related impacts across value 

• Integrating biodiversity exposure into enterprise risk management and board oversight 

• Using nature-related disclosures and transition plans as early-warning risk tools 

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LEARN:

 

​​How rights-based due diligence strengthens biodiversity risk identification and operational stability. ​

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ENGAGE:

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​​​With peers and practitioners on applying just transition principles using shared evidence and cases.

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CONNECT:

 

​​Biodiversity, human rights, and enterprise resilience into integrated risk strategies aligned with CSERA 2026’s de-risking industry framework.