From Net-Zero Targets to Credible Transitions: A Rights-Based Approach

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From Net-Zero Targets to Credible Transitions: A Rights-Based Approach

13:00-16:00 MYT | 30 March 2026

Overview

Net-zero and decarbonization strategies are shaping how businesses manage their physical and transitions risks; fundamentally shifting how they operate, invest, and restructure. As noted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather events are already disrupting infrastructure, labour productivity, food systems, and water availability, creating material operational and sourcing risks for companies across sectors.

Business action on climate targets, and their transition to lessen their carbon footprint, is management of a fundamental financial risk. While these efforts are essential for climate action, they also carry material risks for workers, communities, and ecosystems if transition impacts are not anticipated and managed. A rights-based approach to climate transition provides companies with a practical framework to identify risks early, avoid harm, and maintain operational stability.

This CSERA 2026 policy-to-practice workshop focuses on how businesses can apply human rights and environmental due diligence to climate and decarbonization decisions as a means of de-risking transition pathways.

Participants will examine how climate transition measures—such as energy shifts, supply-chain decarbonization, and adaptation investments—intersect with labour rights, community impacts, and the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment. The workshop will highlight how weak attention to rights-holder impacts can translate into legal, reputational, and delivery risks, while meaningful engagement and access to remedy can strengthen trust and continuity.

Key discussion areas include:

Applying rights-based due diligence to climate and transition planning
Identifying and managing climate-related human rights risks across value chains
Integrating rights-holder perspectives for credible just transition plans
Using transition plans and disclosures as early-warning tools, not reporting endpoints

LEARN:

How rights-based due diligence can be used to anticipate and manage climate transition and adaptation risks.

ENGAGE:

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

CONNECT:

Climate action, human rights, and enterprise risk management into coherent transition strategies.

SESSION SPEAKERS

AGNES K Y TAI

Director, Great Glory Investment Corporation

Prof Tai is a board director at Great Glory Investment Corporation and a globally recognized expert in sustainable and responsible investing, governance, risk, and strategy. She is a member of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Climate and Nature Governance, a Trustee of Chapter Zero Alliance (overseeing 34 Climate Governance Initiatives worldwide), a Supervisory Board member of Global Reporting Initiative, a Council member and Training Committee Vice Chair of the Hong Kong Institute of Directors, an Adjunct Professor of the University of Hong Kong, a Global Association of Risk Professionals Hong Kong Committee member, and a frequent speaker and author.

BIANCA FERNANDES

Manager – Circular Economy and Institutional Engagement, Hasiru Dala

Bianca has over three years of experience working in the Livelihoods vertical and has been part of the Policy vertical at Hasiru Dala for the past 1.5 years. Her work focuses on advancing the formal integration of waste pickers into Solid Waste Management (SWM) systems through policy and institutional frameworks. She contributes to policy initiatives through research, policy analysis, drafting, and strategic coordination, helping shape approaches that strengthen inclusive, decentralised, and equitable waste governance. Her work supports efforts to ensure that waste pickers are recognised as key stakeholders in urban waste management and are included in policies that promote a just transition towards circular and sustainable waste systems.

CHRISTINE AMOUR LEVAR

Co-Founder, Investors for Climate

Christine Amour-Levar is a social entrepreneur, climate investor and author based in Singapore. She builds ecosystems at the intersection of climate finance, sustainability and women’s empowerment, mobilising capital and leadership to drive regenerative impact.
As Co-Founder of Investors for Climate, she has helped grow a global network of 400+ climate-focused investors across 40 cities, connecting capital to ventures in climate tech, energy and biodiversity. Through Her Planet Earth and Women Beyond Limits, she has led 34 expedition-driven initiatives from the Arctic to the Antarctic, raising millions for conservation and community resilience.
Christine serves on multiple sustainability and investment boards and previously led Global Marketing and Communications at Temasek Trust. An Amazon #1 best-selling author of Wild Wisdom and TEDx speaker, her work has been recognised by the Financial Times, named among the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women in the World, and honoured as Vanguard Philanthropist of the Year in Singapore.

LANY HARIJANTI

Regional Program Implementation Manager ASEAN, Global Reporting Initiative

"Lany Harijanti is a regional ESG and sustainability leader with over two decades of experience embedding human rights, gender equality, and responsible business practices across ASEAN. She brings deep expertise from GRI, the private sector, and the UN system, where she has helped organisations and companies strengthen their due diligence, reporting, and resilience through gender responsive approaches."

TARINEE SURAVORANON

Project Manager for Business and Human Rights, UNDP Thailand

Tarinee is a development professional specializing in business and human rights, responsible business conduct, and inclusive governance, with over ten years of experience across the public, private, and development sectors in Southeast Asia.
She currently serves as Project Manager for Business and Human Rights at the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Thailand, where she leads a portfolio of initiatives advancing responsible business practices, civic engagement, and policy coherence. Her work focuses on promoting the implementation of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, strengthening private sector accountability, and fostering multi-stakeholder collaboration among government, businesses, civil society, and youth networks.

Prior to joining UNDP, Tarinee worked as a sustainability consultant specializing in human rights due diligence, where she engaged with over 30 companies in Thailand and internationally to strengthen their capacity on business and human rights and support the establishment of internal human rights management systems. She also has strong expertise in corporate social performance, supporting Thai companies on sustainability reporting, benchmarking, and assessment frameworks, including the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI), Corporate Human Rights Benchmark (CHRB), Social Return on Investment (SROI), Social Impact Assessment, and stakeholder engagement processes.
Earlier in her career, Tarinee worked with the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR), where she supported the management and implementation of Thailand’s regional initiatives on the promotion and protection of human rights across ASEAN member states.

She has also contributed to research and evaluation projects with organizations such as ILO, IOM, UN Women, and Oxfam, focusing on labour rights, migration, and social inclusion across the Mekong region.

Tarinee holds a Master’s degree in Public Policy (Social Policy) from the Australian National University, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science (First Class Honours) from Chulalongkorn University.

GEORGINA LLOYD RIVERA

Regional Coordinator (Asia and the Pacific) – Environmental Law and Governance, UNEP

Dr. Georgina Lloyd Rivera is the Regional Coordinator (Asia and the Pacific) of Environmental Law and Governance for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Georgina supports the development and implementation of environmental law at global, regional and national levels to help respond to existing or emerging environmental issues and internationally agreed environmental commitments and goals. Her work covers the areas of environmental rights, environmental crime, technical assistance in environmental law and capacity building. Georgina has been involved in capacity building for environmental law across Asia and the Pacific and has provided advisory services to government and non-government stakeholders on environmental law and policy issues.  She has over 15 years experience in Asia and the Pacific working on environmental law and governance for academic institutions, NGOs and the UN.

Georgina holds a PhD in Law, Master in Environmental Law and Bachelor in Environmental Science (Hons 1) from the University of Sydney.

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