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Women for the Environment breakfast, Perth 2023

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Bush Heritage Australia invites you to join us for a thought-provoking networking breakfast, featuring inspiring female business leaders providing their insights and guidance on nature-related risks, impact and opportunities, and in particular, nature-based disclosures. 

Nature loss poses risks for business now and in the future but tackling nature loss also presents considerable opportunities.

While climate change and net zero has been the headline act for some time, biodiversity and ecosystem health is rapidly taking centre stage. More than half of the world’s economic output is moderately or highly dependent on nature and there is growing recognition in the finance and business sector of the need to move beyond climate considerations and address nature-related concerns.

With mandatory nature-related disclosures now on the horizon, it’s imperative for business to act early, understand the complexities involved and take advantage of the many synergies between solutions to nature loss and the climate crisis.

Defining how companies can assess, prioritise, measure, address and track their impacts and dependencies on natural ecosystems is a significant step in the right direction for creating strong biodiversity.

OUR PANEL 


Larissa Taylor, Director, Savoir Consulting: ESG, Sustainability, Food and Agribusiness

Larissa is an ESG sustainability consultant and change maker working in green and blue agrifood supply chains, carbon and nature repair markets. Based in Perth since the beginning of 2021, Larissa has been freelancing on climate and nature risk turn-key projects for the energy transition, after upskilling through the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. 

Larissa specializes in ESG, climate and nature risk strategy formation, TCFD and TNFD aligned, natural capital and sustainability capacity building in trade exposed primary industries food supply chains. Larissa has previously worked as CEO of the Grain Industry Association of Western Australia, served on the Grain Trade Australia Trade and Market Access Committee, participated in free trade capacity building in Indonesian, Japanese and Indian markets.

Earlier in her career Larissa worked in business development and executive education at the University of Western Australia and agrifood research and finance at Rabobank Australia. Larissa also co-convenes or contributes to a number of climate action and agrifood leadership groups in Western Australia. She grew up on a mixed grain and livestock farm called ‘Stirling View’ on Noongar Boodja land at Tambellup in the Great Southern of Western Australia and has a passion for all things nature and gardening, especially botanic gardens.

Stephanie Ward, National Lead, Integrated Sustainability Solutions, KBR

Stephanie is a strategy and sustainability professional with over 20 years’ industry and consulting experience within the mining and resources, infrastructure, government, construction, and financial services sectors. 

Stephanie is experienced in advising government and major corporate clients across all elements of sustainability, ESG, corporate strategy, investment decision-making and projects / program delivery. Stephanie’s move into sustainability ~5 years ago was a purpose driven career pivot, based on a desire to improve the future for her young children and ensure they can enjoy the same prospects she did.

In the current environment where sustainability and environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations are increasingly critical to business success, Stephanie brings a combination of a strategic, commercial mindset coupled with proven sustainability experience to deliver outcomes that add significant value across the spectrum of environmental, social and economic outcomes.

Dr Renee Young, Program Director, Conservation and Restoration, The Western Australian Biodiversity Science Institute (WABSI)

Renee specialises in ecological restoration of degraded lands, with recent projects showcased at The UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) and UN Biodiversity Conference (COP 15). Working with government, industry and research, she collaborates widely to ensure outputs are applied and readily implementable. Renee recently led the Western Australian restoration Economy project which includes a roadmap to support the growth of the industry to achieve better environmental outcomes for the state.

OUR HOST

Meri Fatin 

Meri is an interviewer, facilitator, podcaster and broadcaster, with a background in radio production.  A chance opportunity to bring Christiana Figueres, the chief architect of the Paris Climate Agreement, to Perth in March 2020 irrevocably changed Meri's career focus. Later that year she was guest curator of the TEDxPerthCOUNTDOWN: WA Climate Leadership Summit, which led to her founding the WA Climate Leaders network, which inspires visionary WA leadership on climate action in this critical decade.  


SPECIAL GUESTS

  • Chontarle Bellottie, Aboriginal Partnerships Manager, West Region, Bush Heritage Australia
  • Christina Tonkin, Managing Director, Corporate Finance, ANZ Banking Group


TICKETS AND DONATIONS

Your ticket fee goes towards the conservation work of  Bush Heritage Australia. As a not for profit organisation, we rely greatly on donations from supporters. Please consider making a donation to Bush Heritage Australia

For event enquiries please email events@bushheritage.org.au

TICKET SALES CLOSE 18 APRIL, UNLESS SOLD OUT PRIOR


Bush Heritage acknowledges the Whadjuk Noongar Traditional Owners, upon whose land the event will take place. We pay our respects to Elders past, present and emerging.


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