Webinar: Incorporating Nature Into Corporate Climate Strategies

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In a world where the imperative to combat climate change is at the forefront, the webinar titled "Incorporating Nature Into Corporate Climate Strategies" stands as a beacon of hope and actionable insights. Organized collaboratively by the Business Councils for Sustainable Development (BCSD) Malaysia and the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCSA), this webinar is poised to be a pivotal event addressing the convergence of corporate strategies with the preservation of our natural world.

The journey towards net zero involves informed strategies based on scientific insights, encompassing Natural Climate Solutions (NCS) and other carbon removal methods that can seamlessly integrate into a company's value chain. Moreover, emerging frameworks such as the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures, or TNFD (the pathway), Science Based Targets for Nature, or SBTN (the target), and the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, or GBF (the goal), require global alignment and sectors to work collaboratively in building global momentum on climate actions.

This highly anticipated webinar has been meticulously crafted to offer participants a comprehensive understanding of pivotal concepts. Beyond mere theoretical discourse, the event is geared towards providing tangible takeaways through compelling business cases that underscore the imperative of adopting natural climate solutions. In doing so, it sets the stage for a paradigm shift in the corporate approach to climate action. The panelists assembled for this event are drawn from BCSD Malaysia's esteemed member organizations, hailing from diverse sectors, to provide invaluable insights into shaping the sustainable business agenda for the future.

Above all, the primary objective of this event is to empower local businesses with the knowledge and confidence required to make judicious and resilient decisions in the face of a rapidly changing climate landscape. The intrinsic value of natural capital is a central theme, highlighting the symbiotic relationship between sustainable business practices and the preservation of our planet.

As we look to the future, the webinar represents not only a learning opportunity but a call to action. It beckons businesses to embrace nature-positive approaches and integrate them into their climate strategies, recognizing that corporate success and environmental stewardship are inextricably linked.

Join us on November 1st for a transformative experience that promises to reshape the way we think about corporate climate strategies.

Together, we can pave the way for a more sustainable and nature-positive future.

For more inquiries, contact Celine (celine@bcsd.my).

Agenda

November 1, 2023

Main Schedule

15:30 - 15:35

Welcoming Remarks & Introduction

The role of Nature-based Solutions in strategies for Net Zero, Nature Positive, and addressing Inequality; roles of non-state actors in climate change governance

Celine Ng

Celine serves as the Associate Consultant at BCSD Malaysia, a distinguished Global Network Partner of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). Her professional endeavors are firmly in line with the organization's overarching mission, which is dedicated to elevating sustainable business practices within corporate entities. In her multifaceted role, Celine is primarily responsible for the facilitation of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) initiatives that optimize knowledge transfer and deliver capacity-building approaches to BCSD Malaysia's member organizations, thereby assisting them in transitioning towards a resilient and inclusive economy.

Giulia Carbone

Giulia Carbone is the Director of the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, a platform supported by WBCSD and the WEF, since October 2021. In this role, Giulia convenes public and private stakeholders to catalyze demand for high-quality Natural Climate Solutions carbon credits, including the development of tools and guidelines to support businesses in their procurement decisions. Giulia previously worked for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for 15 years, where she served as the Deputy Director of the Global Business and Biodiversity Programme where she headed projects in renewable energy, tourism, sport, agri-food, apparel, mining, infrastructure, and oil and gas sectors. Previously she spent 8 years at the UN Environment Programme. Giulia has a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics in marine policy (1993), a Master’s in environmental engineering from the Turin Polytechnic (1991), a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (1990) and a Laurea in geography from the Università di Genova, Italy (1997).

15:35 - 16:20

Why - The business case for investing in nature

1. Nature and people in NCS

2. The business case for the use of voluntary NCS credits.

3. Examples of NCS Leaders, the implementation stage – how businesses can action what they have learned. Introducing the NCS Procurement Hub.

4. Panel discussion and Q&A

Dewi R. Sari

Dewi is a Nature-based Solution (NbS) Financing Senior Program Lead at World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia based in Jakarta. She is currently leading multiple projects at WRI Indonesia developing several financial mechanisms, frameworks, and tools to channel the fund from multiple sources to local NGOs and CSOs in Indonesia. Her work also focuses on transforming the research into platforms and tools to allow individuals, groups, and/or institutions to collaborate on NbS. She is also playing a role as a Workstream Manager at Southeast Asia Climate and Nature-based Coalition (SCeNe Coalition), where she is leading development of NBS Tool that aim to support the delivery of and investment in high-quality triple-benefit NbS in Southeast Asia. Dewi earned a Bachelor of Science from Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia, and a Master of Environmental Management from the University of Queensland on an Australia Awards Scholarship

Mikkel Larsen

Mikkel Larsen is the Chief Executive Officer of Climate Impact X (CIX), a global marketplace, auctions house and exchange for trusted carbon credits based in Singapore. CIX’s mission is to create real climate impact by turning trust in carbon credits into tangible and actionable outcomes. Mikkel is responsible for developing and executing CIX’s vision to enable the next wave of demand, bring desirable supply to market, facilitate price discovery, and ultimately help unlock liquidity through a suite of solutions underpinned by integrity. Mikkel was one of the early pioneers of the international Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and of Singapore’s Emerging Stronger Taskforce, a public-private partnership to develop a more carbon-conscious society. Prior to his current role, he was the Group Chief Sustainability Officer and chair of the Sustainability Council at DBS Bank. He has also held leadership positions at UBS, Citigroup and KPMG in Europe. Mikkel is involved in numerous international sustainability-related councils and committees. These include: the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market; the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCS Alliance); and the World Wildlife Fund Advisory Council (Singapore), amongst others.

Jennicca Gordon

Jennicca Gordon is Hub Manager in the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, an initiative of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). She has more than six years of experience working in the conservation sector, specializing in nature-based solutions to climate change. She is currently responsible for promoting awareness and understanding among corporates of the role that nature-based solutions can play alongside decarbonization strategies through the NCS Procurement Hub – an online platform that helps businesses navigate the procurement process for nature-based carbon credits. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Masters in Global Environment and Climate Change Law in 2020 and currently lives in Amsterdam. She is a talented stakeholder manager and a published author, writing on issues related to institutional arrangements between states to promote coherent legal actions on climate change-related matters.

WBCSD Carbon Market

16:20 - 17:10

Implementation of climate strategies in Malaysia

1. Introduction of TNFD
2. Addressing risks and impacts from nature and biodiversity loss: leveraging on the restoration of natural capital via high-quality NCS projects
3. TNFD in Malaysian context: challenges and opportunities, regulations and network
4. Sustainable Financing
5. Panel discussion and Q&A

Nadine McCormick

Nadine is the Senior Manager, Nature Action and leads the nature-positive workstream at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, based in Geneva, Switzerland. In this role she aims to empower and inspire champions in companies to accelerate progress on their nature-positive journey, for which she combines a broad expertise in nature and business as well as in organizational and behavioral change. Before joining WBCSD in 2021, Nadine worked for more than 15 years at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), primarily in the Global Business and Biodiversity Programme, where she mobilized knowledge and experiences to scale up business engagement in the conservation community. Nadine describes herself as British-European and holds an MSc in Environment and Development from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc in International Management and French from the University of Bath, and is also a certified facilitator.

Hari Priyadi

Hari Priyadi is a Principal Consultant with ERM - Environmental Resources Management, a global sustainability consulting firm. He leads biodiversity and nature-based solution team, based in Jakarta. Hari has working experiences for more than 20 years with various institutions (such as CIFOR, SLU, ZSL, World Bank). His expertise includes biodiversity and critical habitat assessments, including Biodiversity Action Plan/BAP (IFC PS6), nature-based solutions and climate change for sectors: O&G, mining, forestry and agriculture, financial and more. He holds BSc on Forestry, MSc on Tropical Resource Management and PhD related courses on natural resource management.

Mohd Nizam Basiron

Nizam is presently Senior Manager at the Nature and Biodiversity Centre of Excellence, Corporate Sustainability Office, PETRONAS. He joined the organisation in May 2015 and as a marine environment specialist within the Environment Management team focusing on marine environment issues encompassing oil spill environmental risk, international and national maritime law and biodiversity. His current portfolio includes biodiversity and ecosystem services management, development of internal governance and technical management framework for nature and biodiversity as well as conducting field verification of the status of ecosystems and habitats. Prior to joining PETRONAS he spent more than twenty years as an ecologist and policy analyst at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) where he was Research Fellow. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Ecology and Natural Resources from the University of Canberra and a Diploma from the 17 th Session of the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy, Greece 2012. Nizam was a member of the Regional Task Force on Legal Matters for the UNEP-GEF Project on Reversing Environmental Trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand from 2001 to 2008, served on the National Biodiversity Roundtable for its 2022-2023 term and is an external advisor for UKM’s Faculty of Science and Technology Masters in Marine Science Programme.

Lee King Vai

King Vai has over 2 decades of corporate experience in areas such as corporate insolvency and turnaround, corporate finance advisory, and corporate and commercial banking. He is currently the Head of Coverage for the Energy & Transport sector in Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad (“BPMB”) and concentrates his efforts on aligning BPMB’s returns to Measuring Impact on National Development (“MIND”) and influencing public policies on Energy and Transport. BPMB’s MIND framework which was jointly developed with the World Bank Group, shifts project evaluation from a credit-centric assessment to a holistic end-to-end assessment. He was also a panel judge for the National Energy Awards 2022 and currently sits on the Advisory Committee for the National Shipping and Port Council advising on access to capital and financing. King Vai is highly passionate about facilitating local companies' involvement in Malaysia's journey toward sustainable development.

Recommendations of the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (September 2023).pdf

17:10 - 17:15

Closing Remarks

Celine Ng

Speakers

Dewi R. Sari

Nature-based Solution (NBS) Financing Senior Program Lead at World Resource Institute (WRI) Indonesia

Mikkel Larsen

Chief Executive Officer at Climate Impact X

Jennicca Gordon

Associate at Natural Climate Solutions Alliance

Giulia Carbone

Director of Natural Climate Solutions Alliance

Celine Ng

Associate Consultant at BCSD Malaysia Berhad

Nadine McCormick

Senior Manager at World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)

Hari Priyadi

Principal Consultant at ERM Indonesia

Mohd Nizam Basiron

Senior Manager, Nature and Biodiversity Centre of Excellence - Corporate Sustainability at PETRONAS

Lee King Vai

Head, Coverage - Energy & Transport Group Coverage at Bank Pembangunan Malaysia Berhad

Dewi is a Nature-based Solution (NbS) Financing Senior Program Lead at World Resources Institute (WRI) Indonesia based in Jakarta. She is currently leading multiple projects at WRI Indonesia developing several financial mechanisms, frameworks, and tools to channel the fund from multiple sources to local NGOs and CSOs in Indonesia. Her work also focuses on transforming the research into platforms and tools to allow individuals, groups, and/or institutions to collaborate on NbS.

She is also playing a role as a Workstream Manager at Southeast Asia Climate and Nature-based Coalition (SCeNe Coalition), where she is leading development of NBS Tool that aim to support the delivery of and investment in high-quality triple-benefit NbS in Southeast Asia.

Dewi earned a Bachelor of Science from Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia, and a Master of Environmental Management from the University of Queensland on an Australia Awards Scholarship

Mikkel Larsen is the Chief Executive Officer of Climate Impact X (CIX), a global marketplace, auctions house and exchange for trusted carbon credits based in Singapore. CIX’s mission is to create real climate impact by turning trust in carbon credits into tangible and actionable outcomes.

Mikkel is responsible for developing and executing CIX’s vision to enable the next wave of demand, bring desirable supply to market, facilitate price discovery, and ultimately help unlock liquidity through a suite of solutions underpinned by integrity.

Mikkel was one of the early pioneers of the international Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) and of Singapore’s Emerging Stronger Taskforce, a public-private partnership to develop a more carbon-conscious society. Prior to his current role, he was the Group Chief Sustainability Officer and chair of the Sustainability Council at DBS Bank. He has also held leadership positions at UBS, Citigroup and KPMG in Europe.

Mikkel is involved in numerous international sustainability-related councils and committees. These include: the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market; the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and Natural Climate Solutions Alliance (NCS Alliance); and the World Wildlife Fund Advisory Council (Singapore), amongst others.

Jennicca Gordon is Hub Manager in the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, an initiative of the World
Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). She has more than six years of experience
working in the conservation sector, specializing in nature-based solutions to climate change. She is
currently responsible for promoting awareness and understanding among corporates of the role that
nature-based solutions can play alongside decarbonization strategies through the NCS Procurement
Hub – an online platform that helps businesses navigate the procurement process for nature-based
carbon credits. She graduated from the University of Edinburgh with a Masters in Global Environment and Climate Change Law in 2020 and currently lives in Amsterdam. She is a talented stakeholder manager and a published author, writing on issues related to institutional arrangements between states to promote coherent legal actions on climate change-related matters.

Giulia Carbone is the Director of the Natural Climate Solutions Alliance, a platform supported by WBCSD and the WEF, since October 2021. In this role, Giulia convenes public and private stakeholders to catalyze demand for high-quality Natural Climate Solutions carbon credits, including the development of tools and guidelines to support businesses in their procurement decisions.

Giulia previously worked for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for 15 years, where she served as the Deputy Director of the Global Business and Biodiversity Programme where she headed projects in renewable energy, tourism, sport, agri-food, apparel, mining, infrastructure, and oil and gas sectors. Previously she spent 8 years at the UN Environment Programme.

Giulia has a Master of Science degree from the London School of Economics in marine policy (1993), a Master’s in environmental engineering from the Turin Polytechnic (1991), a Bachelor of Arts in economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (1990) and a Laurea in geography from the Università di Genova, Italy (1997).

Nadine is the Senior Manager, Nature Action and leads the nature-positive workstream at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, based in Geneva, Switzerland. In this role she aims to empower and inspire champions in companies to accelerate progress on their nature-positive journey, for which she combines a broad expertise in nature and business as well as in organizational and behavioral change.

Before joining WBCSD in 2021, Nadine worked for more than 15 years at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), primarily in the Global Business and Biodiversity Programme, where she mobilized knowledge and experiences to scale up business engagement in the conservation community.

Nadine describes herself as British-European and holds an MSc in Environment and Development from the University of Edinburgh and a BSc in International Management and French from the University of Bath, and is also a certified facilitator.

Nizam is presently Senior Manager at the Nature and Biodiversity Centre of Excellence, Corporate Sustainability Office, PETRONAS. He joined the organisation in May 2015 and as a marine environment specialist within the Environment Management team focusing on marine environment issues encompassing oil spill environmental risk, international and national maritime law and biodiversity. His current portfolio includes biodiversity and ecosystem services management, development of internal governance and technical management framework for nature and biodiversity as well as conducting field verification of the status of ecosystems and habitats. Prior to joining PETRONAS he spent more
than twenty years as an ecologist and policy analyst at the Maritime Institute of Malaysia (MIMA) where he was Research Fellow. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science Degree in Ecology and Natural Resources from the University of Canberra and a Diploma from the 17 th Session of the Rhodes Academy of Oceans Law and Policy, Greece 2012.

Nizam was a member of the Regional Task Force on Legal Matters for the UNEP-GEF Project on
Reversing Environmental Trends in the South China Sea and Gulf of Thailand from 2001 to 2008, served on the National Biodiversity Roundtable for its 2022-2023 term and is an external advisor for UKM’s Faculty of Science and Technology Masters in Marine Science Programme.

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