Date and Time
Monday January 31, 2022
10:00 am-12:00 pm
EST
Location
Webinar
As the world continues to advance the Paris Agreement goals to achieve a net-zero GHG economy by 2050, companies will have a critical role to play in advancing the just transition. A truly just transition to a low-carbon economy will manage the impacts, risks, and opportunities to people, by providing workers with decent and green jobs and protecting communities.
Energy for a Just Transition, a new business-led collaboration from BSR and The B Team, brings together companies and other stakeholders such as labor unions, NGOs, and policy makers to collectively develop practical guidance on how companies can plan for, operationalize, and integrate just transition principles into their sustainability strategies and practices. Join us as we set the stage of the just transition context and landscape, introduce the collaboration, and explain opportunities to get involved.
This session is open to all energy, utilities, and related companies and relevant stakeholders interested in learning more about Energy for a Just Transition or the just transition more broadly.
Speakers
- Elisa Estrada Holteng, Strategist & Cause Lead, The B Team
- Charlotte Hugman, Research Lead Climate and Energy Benchmark, World Benchmarking Alliance
- Vicky Sins, Lead Decarbonisation and Energy Transformation, World Benchmarking Alliance
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Ouida Chichester,
Director, BSR
Ouida leads BSR’s Energy and Extractives practice. She applies her experience in international development to her work at BSR, where she advises global corporations across industries, but particularly extractives companies, on human rights; sustainable communities; inclusive economy; diversity, equity and inclusion; and women’s empowerment.
She also previously supported BSR's HERproject.
Prior to joining BSR, Ouida worked with the United Nations Development Programme in Belize, where she developed and contributed to projects on water governance, gender equality, and disability rights. She also has worked at Community Partners International, a nonprofit dedicated to the well-being of the people of Myanmar. Ouida helped build New Global Citizens, an organization dedicated to engaging U.S. youth in global philanthropy and activism. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador, she worked closely with youth, women, and grassroots organizations. She is fluent in Spanish.
As a Rotary World Peace Fellow, Ouida obtained an M.A. in International Relations from the Universidad del Salvador. She also holds a B.A. in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College.
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Jenna Kowalevsky,
Manager, Energy, Extractives, and Industrials and Human Rights, BSR
Jenna brings 15 years of experience working in human rights, sustainability, and stakeholder relations at global companies to her work with BSR member companies. She manages BSR’s Just Transition Collaborative Initiative, focusing on the energy sector’s transition to net zero.
Prior to joining BSR, Jenna held a senior role at Suncor Energy, advising the company on integrating sustainability into business processes, ensuring projects managed social and environmental impacts and risks, and leading their human rights efforts. Previously, she worked at Repsol, where she developed and implemented their global community relations, Indigenous Peoples and human rights approach, and management system. She held multiple ESG roles at Talisman Energy, where she led the global ethics program, implemented a supplier code of conduct and risk assessment process, analyzed company-wide safety and environmental performance, and conducted land and stakeholder consultation. Jenna also held a key role at Interpol, advising the organization on its strategic direction and was instrumental in developing its new organizational strategy.
Jenna holds an MBA and a Graduate Diploma in Social Performance Management from Queen’s University and a Bachelor of Commerce in Petroleum Land Management from the University of Calgary.
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Laura Uhlmann,
Manager, Consumer Sectors, BSR
Laura supports BSR’s sustainability management work across industries. She has also worked on several of BSR’s multistakeholder collaborations, including the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition and Maritime Anti-Corruption Network.
Prior to joining BSR, Laura was the director of the Copenhagen branch of a global social impact consultancy advising startup companies and social enterprises on fundraising and communications strategies as well as social impact creation and measurement. She also held an internship position at a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening the rights of women journalists. Laura speaks German, English, and Spanish.
Laura holds an M.Sc. in Business and Development Studies with a Minor in Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship and a B.Sc. in Business, Language, and Culture, both from Copenhagen Business School.
