From COP30 to 2030: Lessons for Business from Just Transitions in Practice

Webinar Overview

Across sectors, business leaders are urgently seeking concrete, real-world models that show how just transitions can be done in ways that unlock opportunity, reduce risk, strengthen resilience, and build long-term competitiveness.

This webinar convenes senior business practitioners from different industries who are engaged in complex transition processes.

The discussion will:

• explore what works, what doesn’t, and what the next five years demand from business actors navigating decarbonisation under intensifying scrutiny, political volatility, and accelerating implementation in the lead up to 2030;
• focus on the pragmatic, repeatable elements of promising early-stage transitions and the strategic implications for business, and;
• highlight how companies are reducing transition risk, strengthening community resilience, and accelerating implementation by partnering meaningfully with workers, suppliers, and local communities.

Drawing on lessons surfaced through IHRB’s two-year JUST Stories project, the event marks the release of a new report featuring four immersive case studies of real-time just transitions, centered on the people driving them - spanning agroforestry, renewable-powered value chains, community-led housing, and post-coal local economic diversification.

Welcome remarks - delivered by Brandee Butler, CEO, IHRB

Keynote on what COP30 means for global business leadership

Industry discussion

Moderated by Haley St. Dennis, Head of Just Transitions, IHRB, featuring Yann Wyss, Global Head of Social Impact & Human Rights, Nestlé and James Magor, Principal, Sustainability, Actis.

Speakers will share:

• share important lessons from their just transitions experiences as witnessed through their work on the ground
• practical ground-level examples of how they have strengthened credibility, stakeholder trust, and implementation by partnering with workers, suppliers, and local communities
• challenges faced, leverage built, and practical advice for peers working through similar challenges

Reflections

Amol Mehra, Director of Programmes, Laudes Foundation will reflect on how practitioners can effectively navigate implementation challenges, enabling conditions, and emerging signals from COP30, as well as highlight philanthropy's role in catalysing critical action and bridging gaps in just transition practices.

Questions and answers