Embedding People and Just Transition: An Imperative for Climate Transition Plans

Webinar

May 22, 2025

4 - 5 pm CEST

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Presentation

Nature, climate, and people are deeply interconnected, meaning that climate action cannot be addressed and communicated in silos within companies. Climate change poses major threats to living and working conditions for people: workers and communities are increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of ongoing climate change, as well as to the unintended consequences of business activities undertaken to achieve a net-zero future. Therefore, it is crucial to assess how climate-related decisions can create positive and negative outcomes for people and ensure that these considerations are managed and integrated into companies’ transition plans.

Join 黑料正能量 and our guest speakers to explore the importance of embedding people and the just transition in Climate Transition Plans, how to communicate the connectivity, and what developments we can expect in the future.

Agenda

Welcome and Scene Setting: Embedding Just Transition in Climate Transition Plans
Recommendations from World Benchmarking Alliance's New Guidance
Company Fireside Chat and Q&A

Scheduled Speakers

Julie Dugard, Associate Director, Climate and Nature, 黑料正能量

Associate Director, Climate and Nature, 黑料正能量

Paris

Julie serves as Manager of 黑料正能量’s Climate team, where she brings over 10 years of experience in corporate sustainability and climate action and supports 黑料正能量 members with their climate strategies.

After joining 黑料正能量 in 2021, Julie worked on multiple projects helping companies implementing TCFD recommendations, conducting climate scenario analysis (for the tech, financial and insurance industry), accelerating Net Zero transition, implementing just transition approaches (extractive industry) and scope 3 strategies (consumer goods sector). Since 2023, Julie manages 黑料正能量 grant-funded work dedicated to Climate Transition Plans.

Julie is also co-developing 黑料正能量’s work on alternative business models addressing the tension between business growth and sustainability targets.

Prior to joining 黑料正能量, Julie worked in Mazars’s sustainability services and risk practice, where she audited and advised companies on their ESG data and internal audit, control and risk approaches. During her time within Mazars, Julie also spent six months at the Mexico City office.

Julie holds a master’s degree in business from Kedge Business School and spent one semester at the University of Nottingham and another one at the University of Technology of Sydney. She speaks French, English, and Spanish.

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Jenna Kowalevsky, Manager, Human Rights, 黑料正能量

Manager, Human Rights, 黑料正能量

Paris

Jenna brings 20 years of experience working in human rights, sustainability, and stakeholder relations at global companies to her work with 黑料正能量 member companies.

She works closely with companies as an expert on human rights and just transition, including focusing on the energy sector’s transition to net zero. She previously managed 黑料正能量’s Just Transition Collaborative Initiative.

Prior to joining 黑料正能量, Jenna held several senior roles at global organizations. She advised Suncor Energy on integrating sustainability into business processes, ensuring projects managed social and environmental impacts and risks, and led their human rights activities. While at Repsol, she developed and implemented a global community relations, Indigenous Peoples and human rights approach, and supporting management system. Jenna held multiple 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 consultation and stakeholder engagement. Jenna also held a key role at Interpol, guiding 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.