IAIA23 Sessions
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1996 SEA Effectiveness Study: A 25 year benchmark for review of progress
Session Proposal ID 25
Lead Chair: Rob Verheem
Session Format: Theme forum – Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Closed
Conference Topic: G5 Strategic environmental assessment
25 years on, the 1996 SEA Effectiveness Study provides a convenient milestone against which to benchmark progress on the field. This theme forum will explore in an interactive way how SEA effectiveness has improved since then, where it still falls short and what the key steps are to now move forward ahead.
Acceptance Status: approve
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A Global Assessment for Prosperity, People, and the Planet (Session 1)
Session Proposal ID 64
Lead Chair: Peter Nelson
Session Format: Theme forum – Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G14 Governance and implementation systems
Climate Change and Biodiversity top the Global Agenda – but we face capacity constraints to deal with these and other crises. How can SEA be used to to achieve institutional reforms and better global governance? This session presents context of what we need to change, and the critical roles of SEA.
Acceptance Status: approve
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A Global assessment for Prosperity, People, and the Planet (Session 2)
Session Proposal ID 63
Lead Chair: Paul Mitchell-banks
Session Format: Debate | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G14 Governance and implementation systems
Climate Change and Biodiversity loss are top of the Global Agenda – but our capacity to deal with these and other crises is limited. What steps can be taken to achieve institutional reforms and better global governance through use of SEA? This session will explore and debate a proposed Action Plan.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Advancements in Environmental and Social Policies - MDB perspectives
Session Proposal ID 34
Lead Chair: Hakan Lucius
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
The session discusses the latest developments regarding Multilateral Development Banks’ (MDBs) approaches to environmental and social sustainability and focuses on how the new policies trigger a comprehensive approach integrating environmental and social aspects throughout the whole project cycle.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Advancing understanding of Nature-based solutions in impact assessment
Session Proposal ID 42
Lead Chair: Stephen Edwards
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: S1 Special to IAIA
This Session will discuss Nature-based Solutions in the context of impact assessment, describe progress of a framework to design, implement and scale up NbS actions (the IUCN Global Standard for NbS), review cases where NbS is being used, and discuss how to integrate NbS clearly into policy and impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Analysis of cumulative impact and its input for climate change management through ESIA
Session Proposal ID 38
Lead Chair: Marco Tello | CoChair: Javier Macera
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G11 Climate change
We propose to present successful cases and opportunities for improving the análisis of cumulative impacts in the ESIA, considering regional and global effects. Based on a review of related policies and laws, main tasks are to identify sources of available information and to review guidelines and methodologies for CEA.
Acceptance Status: approve
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ASEAN Day Session 1 - Rights Based Approach to IA in ASEAN
Session Proposal ID 100
Lead Chair: Georgina Lloyd Rivera
Session Format: Theme forum – Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
This panel with examine the development of an ASEAN Declaration on Environmental Rights. This discussion, led by the ASEAN Intergovernmental Commission on Human Rights (AICHR) examines the role of environmental rights, including the use and enhancement of IA, to achieve those rights.
Acceptance Status: approve
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ASEAN Day Session 2 - Resilience, Sustainability and Inclusion in IA
Session Proposal ID 102
Lead Chair: Stefano Zenobi
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
This session, led by WWF Mekong for the Future, will examine the role of IA in promoting resilience, inclusion and sustainability in ASEAN. The focus will be on infrastructure development.
Acceptance Status: approve
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ASEAN Day Session 3 - Climate Change and IA in ASEAN
Session Proposal ID 103
Lead Chair: Matthew Baird
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
This session examined the opportunities for leadership in integrating climate change, human rights and biodiversity issues into IA in ASEAN
Acceptance Status: approve
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ASEAN Day Session 4 - Future of IA in ASEAN
Session Proposal ID 104
Lead Chair: Rocky Guzman | CoChair: Matthew Baird
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
This session will provide a high-level summary and overview of some of the initiatives happening in ASEAN, with a moderated roundtable discussion on the development of new approaches in the environmental and social impact assessment on linear-infrastructure projects in ASEAN, the incorporation of climate change into IA, and the development of an ASEAN Framework on Environmental Rights, which includes both procedural and substantive elements. The roundtable will also provide at least 30 minutes for engagement from the audience through questions and statements.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Asian S3EA: Strategic, Spatial and Sustainable EA
Session Proposal ID 23
Lead Chair: kiichiro hayashi | CoChair: Jong-Gwan Jung
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G5 Strategic environmental assessment
The advancement of remote sensing technology and information technology, spatial analysis with a variety of environmental, social and economic items received a big attention. This session will focus on IA examples which support the strategic decision including SEA and utilized the well-organized spatial scale analysis for achieving SD in Asian regions.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Building IA resilience through advances in qualitative study design
Session Proposal ID 32
Lead Chair: John Sinclair | CoChair: Heidi Walker
Session Format: Theme forum – World Café | Accepts Submissions: Closed
Conference Topic: T3 Dynamic capabilities and quality innovation in impact assessment
This World Café session will engage IAIA members in interactive dialogue on strategies for enhancing the application of qualitative research in IA and on best practice considerations for specific qualitative methods available for IA.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Building Resilience through Indigenous Participation in EIA
Session Proposal ID 74
Lead Chair: Lisa Pourlak
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G3 Indigenous peoples
The last remnants of nature are mainly governed by indigenous people. These areas however are under increasing pressure from development projects. Involving indigenous people in decision making process through EIA could build resilience and leadership that is needed to protect these sites from further degradation.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Can an energy transition without FPIC be just(ified)?
Session Proposal ID 97
Lead Chair: Christine Crispin
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G3 Indigenous peoples
FPIC can help operationalise the concept of just transition on Indigenous territory and achieve an equitable distribution of impacts and benefits more broadly. This panel combines viewpoints of First Nations Peoples, practitioners, researchers and policy makers on how FPIC can be an enabler rather than an obstacle to decarbonisation.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Capacity Building on SIA through Certification and Accreditation
Session Proposal ID 55
Lead Chair: Bryan Alamani | CoChair: Mayumi Pimentel
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: G9 Capacity building in impact assessment
This panel discussion will gather SIA practitioners from different regions to share their experiences and perspectives about the available streams of certification/accreditation; identify challenges, best practices, and new trends in developing quality training programs and certifications, to further promote SIA principles through collaborative learning and capacity building programs.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Climate change
Session Proposal ID 112
Lead Chair: TBC TBC
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G11 Climate change
To be confirmed.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Climate Change Impact Assessment and Integrated Application Tools
Session Proposal ID 53
Lead Chair: Young-Il Song | CoChair: Changwan Seo
Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: G11 Climate change
Climate-induced crisis have imposed tremendous impacts on human and nature. South Korean government developed MOTIVE system to assess the impact and vulnerability to climate change in diverse sectors. It could be adopted as a tool for considering climate change in EIA process and details of the system will be discussed.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Compliance and Enforcement of EsIA Requirements, Commitments and Related Pe
Session Proposal ID 99
Lead Chair:
Session Format: Caravan | Accepts Submissions: Closed
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
Compliance and enforcement of EsIA requirements, commitments and related permits is a significant challenge. Following a brief introduction to Principles and Best Practices for EsIA Compliance and Enforcement, participants rotate in facilitated Caravan style "stops" to discuss the 5 major Principles, elaborate lessons and best practices, concluding with a report out.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Cultural Heritage Impact Assessment at Critical Sites
Session Proposal ID 44
Lead Chair: Christopher Polglase
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G2 Cultural heritage
The practice of impact assessment for cultural heritage has evolved significantly during the past two decades. During this session, we will hear about case studies related to impact assessments and Heritage Impact Assessments for sites of international and national levels of significance.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Ecological resilience and impact assessment: applications and challenges
Session Proposal ID 33
Lead Chair: Patricia Rodrigues
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G10 Biodiversity and ecology
Biodiversity is key to achieve a resilient ecosystem. We welcome the share of experiences, concerns, doubts, and hopes on measuring and applying the ecological resilience concept in impact assessment, with focus on biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Efforts to
Session Proposal ID 22
Lead Chair: Thomas Fischer
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: T1 Accelerators and agile strategies for impact assessment
Efforts are underway worldwide that aim at "simplifying" environmental assessment (EA). Do these represent an opportunity or a threat or both to EA? Papers presented in this session are being published in a special issue of IAIA’s journal, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Embedding climate change resilience into mainstream IA
Session Proposal ID 98
Lead Chair: Jacki Schirmer | CoChair: Angelo Imperiale
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: G11 Climate change
All impact assessments should seek to build resilience to the rapidly growing effects of human-induced climate change. This session will discuss how to maximise climate change resilience when assessing impacts, focusing on the role of IA in supporting climate-related disaster risk reduction, improved disaster response, and disaster recovery.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Ensuring environmental and social performance of Infrastructure Projects
Session Proposal ID 76
Lead Chair: Patrick Francis | CoChair: Olga Skotareva
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G14 Governance and implementation systems
• This session explores strategies to more effectively translate impact assessment findings and recommendations into practical management and mitigation measures for more environmentally and socially sustainable infrastructure projects. Presentations will cover a range of measures that can be applied during infrastructure project planning, construction and operation phases.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Failing Forward: Top 5 Complaints for IFI Projects and How to Avoid Them
Session Proposal ID 40
Lead Chair: David Simpson | CoChair: Mark Goldsmith
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: G14 Governance and implementation systems
This session will reveal the “Top 5” most frequent social and environmental complaints received by IFIs. Our panelists (representatives from IFIs as well as independent accountability mechanisms) will share case studies where adverse social and environmental impacts have arisen in the past and offer their insights and lessons learned.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Follow the money – Is there a role for IA in Due Diligence?
Session Proposal ID 45
Lead Chair: Heikki Kalle | CoChair: Charlotta Faith-Ell
Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Closed
Conference Topic: G13 Corporate stewardship and risk management
This session aims to explore if there is a role for IA in Due Diligence (an instrument for investment decisions and financing). DD is lacking information from IA, while IA faces the challenge of effective implementation. We invite IAIA’23 participants (experts and other stakeholders) to discuss this topic.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Fueling effective ESIA through leadership and systems transformation
Session Proposal ID 58
Lead Chair: Jessica Kyle
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
Transforming impact assessment into meaningful results requires supportive systems and engaged leadership–-formal and informal, at all levels. This session will discuss approaches for benchmarking environmental and social safeguard systems of development agencies and provide real-world examples of better aligning systems and leadership to translate ESIA from paper to results.
Acceptance Status: approve
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General Impact Assessment
Session Proposal ID 111
Lead Chair:
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: please make a selection
Acceptance Status: approve
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How environmental impact assessment works: Case studies
Session Proposal ID 116
Lead Chair: Reece Alberts
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T4 Measuring and evaluating the impact of impact assessment
The session will present case studies of how environmental impact assessment works as a process to explore the difference between concept and practice.
Acceptance Status: approve
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How is Indigenous leadership improving IA?
Session Proposal ID 50
Lead Chair: Matt Hammond | CoChair: Chris Apps
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G3 Indigenous peoples
Indigenous leadership in IA can lead to better IA practice and more resilient decisions. What are the specific catalysts that are empowering Indigenous groups to become more deeply involved in the practice and oversight of IA? This session will explore examples from around the world.
Acceptance Status: approve
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How parliaments can leverage on impact assessment to build resilience
Session Proposal ID 54
Lead Chair: VITUS OWINO
Session Format: Theme forum – Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
Deep dive discussions on the roles played by Parliament and Parliamentarians. Specifically highlighting actions and giving examples of most significant change stories. This shall serve as a clarion call for leadership on our common future.
Acceptance Status: approve
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IAIA SEA Guidance for Renewable Energy
Session Proposal ID 31
Lead Chair: Barry Dalal-Clayton | CoChair: Miles Scott-Brown
Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Closed
Conference Topic: G5 Strategic environmental assessment
In response to the challenge of climate change and in support of country commitments to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and transition to renewable energy (RE), SEA guidance for the RE transition is critically needed. IAIA is developing such guidance and will present a progress report and outline the broad content of the guidance. Draft chapters will be available on the IAIA website for review from mid April.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Impact Assessment for Resilient Carbon Neutrality
Session Proposal ID 29
Lead Chair: Kin Che Lam | CoChair: Timothy Pierson-Smith
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G11 Climate change
Carbon neutrality should be a resilient journey against expected and unexpected drawbacks, and environmental, energy and economic systems under carbon neutrality should be resilient. This session explores how impact assessment has been, and will be, ushering resilient carbon neutrality in developed and developing countries and metropolitans.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Impact Assessment: Fostering Partnerships for Green Resilient Development
Session Proposal ID 61
Lead Chair: Mokshana Wijeyeratne | CoChair: Neha Vyas
Session Format: Pecha Kucha | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: T5 Transient and sustainable models for impact assessment
What kind of possibilities open-up when IA is used for promoting green and resilient development? What role do partnerships have in this? The session will bring together global experience that highlights success stories, lessons learnt and will make recommendations for promoting stronger partnerships that make IAs more effective.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Implementation of social impact assessment for physical development of projects
Session Proposal ID 52
Lead Chair: Alias Remeli | CoChair: Carlos T. Pérez-Brito
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: G6 Social impact assessment
Assessing social considerations through Social Impact Assessment has been a crucial and significant planning tool in urban planning. The presenter will share their experiences and challenges in incorporating social impact in the land use planning process that could contribute to the successful implementation of SIA.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Inclusion of Indigenous Peoples and Remote Populations in Cambodia’s Draft EIA Law
Session Proposal ID 107
Lead Chair: Andrew Coccoli
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: T4 Measuring and evaluating the impact of impact assessment
Open Development Cambodia proposes to host a panel discussion on communicating the concerns of indigenous peoples and remote populations to decision-makers in the Cambodian EIA process. The discussion will focus on the draft EIA law, draft freedom of information law, and ICT strategic vision as potential avenues of inclusion.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Indigenous Knowledge as the Foundation of Indigenous-led Impact Assessments
Session Proposal ID 101
Lead Chair: Bruce Muir
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G3 Indigenous peoples
Indigenous knowledges are the foundation of Indigenous-led IAs. Respecting, integrating, and when culturally appropriate relying on their worldviews, institutions, environmental management, and local ecological information is essential, particularly to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The confluence of Indigenous knowledges and IA will be explored.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Information management and impact assessment
Session Proposal ID 115
Lead Chair: Aaron Goldschmidt
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T4 Measuring and evaluating the impact of impact assessment
The session brings together different perspectives on how information is managed as part of impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Integrating Climate E&S Risk Assessment into Projects and the ESIA Process
Session Proposal ID 49
Lead Chair: Raymi Beltran | CoChair: Angela Soriano
Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Closed
Conference Topic: G11 Climate change
Climate change can impact natural resources and weather-depend livelihoods. Projects on the ground can further increase these impacts. This session will present the approach that the IFC has developed to integrate climate change considerations in environmental and social (E&S) aspects and identify potential E&S underperformance of projects due to climate change.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Integrating risk and impact assessment in renewable energy supply chains
Session Proposal ID 96
Lead Chair: Andy Symington
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T5 Transient and sustainable models for impact assessment
Rapid procurement shifts as companies pivot to renewable technologies are creating new and increased human rights impacts. This panel examines how to better integrate risk assessment and impact assessment in renewable energy supply chains, and how bottom-up, community-led impact assessment processes can help us gain crucial supply chain visibility.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Is IA agile enough to balance urgency of reviews of complex green projects?
Session Proposal ID 80
Lead Chair: Janet Blackadar
Session Format: Theme forum – Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T3 Dynamic capabilities and quality innovation in impact assessment
In the race to address global climate change through novel, and often large, complex projects and technologies, this paper session will explore whether our IA processes are agile enough to balance the urgency of timely reviews with the care and understanding that is necessary for complex decision making.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Linkages between technology assessment and IA: Example of hydrogen
Session Proposal ID 56
Lead Chair: Alan Bond
Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: G15 Emerging technologies
This workshop will present assessment approaches used by 30+ research and policy centers associated with the Global Technology Assessment Network. It will then use an example of hydrogen technologies to discuss potential linkages between these early-stage technology studies and strategic- and project-level impact assessments that may concern the IAIA membership.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Making impact assessment more effective: Approaches and changes
Session Proposal ID 117
Lead Chair: Pantea Niksirat
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T4 Measuring and evaluating the impact of impact assessment
The session brings together diverse presentations which consider the broad question of how to make impact assessment a better process with better results.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Mapping of mapping: the role of spatial tools for impact assessment
Session Proposal ID 88
Lead Chair: Kate Lazarus
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G9 Capacity building in impact assessment
An overview of the different ocean-based spatial planning approaches that feed into impact assessment processes, highlighting how they support implementation of national and international objectives and standards. This will help guide appropriate decision-making through the uptake of applicable spatial approaches to support sustainable development.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Marine EsIA: challenges and roadmap ahead
Session Proposal ID 69
Lead Chair: Carlos Barrientos
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G9 Capacity building in impact assessment
This session will benchmark challenges and experiences in impact assessment within the marine environments, using case studies from different geographies and economic sectors. A significant increase of human activities and economic sectors will be demanding more space and integration together with conservation and traditional marine activities. Using offshore wind farms recent experience and challenges in biologica impacts will be a major focus. Are we tecnically prepared for the challenge?
Acceptance Status: approve
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Meet the editors
Session Proposal ID 79
Lead Chair: TBC TBC
Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Closed
Conference Topic: S1 Special to IAIA
Are you considering writing an article or professional practice paper on impact assessment but aren't sure where to start? The editor and managers of IAIA's journal, Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, will present ways to write a good article and get it published. Bring your questions and ideas for articles or guest issues.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Modelling, leading and measuring the impact of cultural transformation.
Session Proposal ID 65
Lead Chair:
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
This session will provide a forum for participants to hear about recent case studies in culture change and transformation, the guiding frameworks that organisations have used to support their significant efforts, and the measures that they have engaged to assess and monitor the impact of transformational activities.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Moving beyond risk: Striving for data to deliver nature positive outcomes
Session Proposal ID 87
Lead Chair: Julie Dimitrijevic
Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G14 Governance and implementation systems
EIA data is the basis for realising nature-related risk & opportunity. Biodiversity baselines should include indicators to assess net positive impact commitments and embrace upcoming disclosure requirements. The workshop will showcase enablers for biodiversity data integration into corporate decision making. Come join us!
Acceptance Status: approve
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New developments in human rights impact assessment
Session Proposal ID 75
Lead Chair: Gabriela Factor | CoChair: Tulika Bansal
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T3 Dynamic capabilities and quality innovation in impact assessment
This session will include a discussion on the latest developments on human rights impact assessment and its importance on the light of new regulatory developments, two cases of fisheries and infrastructure sector, the launch of the fast tips on Human Rights in Impact Assessment and a lively Q&A session.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Not the same, not so different: Distinctive features in SIA, PSIA and HIA
Session Proposal ID 72
Lead Chair: Sérgio Moreira | CoChair: Will Rifkin
Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Closed
Conference Topic: G6 Social impact assessment
There is a vague borderline between SIA, PSIA and HIA - they are not the same but they are not so different. This workshop will draw on IAIA fast tips and other recent references and aims to produce visual representations of the distinctive (and overlapping) features of these frameworks.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Overhauling impact assessment in response to the sustainability imperatives
Session Proposal ID 73
Lead Chair: Juan Palerm
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T5 Transient and sustainable models for impact assessment
Can impact assessment become a tool that promotes transformational change towards environmental sustainability, low carbon and climate resilient development, beyond safeguarding the ‘do no harm’ principle? This session will explore approaches to bring impact assessment up to speed and ensuring it is fit-for-purpose to the global challenges we are facing.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Perspectives on Social Impact Assessment
Session Proposal ID 114
Lead Chair: Munya Chitakira
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G6 Social impact assessment
The session brings together a range of perspectives on social impact assessment ranging from guidance to practice.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Putting the 'S' in ESG: Social Impact Assessment for Major Projects
Session Proposal ID 36
Lead Chair: Sara Bice
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: G6 Social impact assessment
Assessing the social impacts of major projects is crucial for local communities, climate action, and sound investment. It is also vital for long-term community resilience and wellbeing. This session aims to highlight the 'S' in ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) policy and practice by bringing together international SIA experts working on major infrastructure projects. Join the conversation as we discuss and debate the best ways to raise the profile of the 'S' in ESG.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Resilient organizations facing environmental and social crises
Session Proposal ID 41
Lead Chair: Pablo Baranao | CoChair: Juan D. Quintero
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G13 Corporate stewardship and risk management
Many organizations have faced critical situations such as environmental disasters, social upheavals, and unexpected or engineering failures. These turning points have had huge impacts on these organizations often with dire consequences on their survival. However, some organizations have been able to turn these crises into a transformational change opportunity, resulting in more sustainable entities and becoming leaders in their field. This session will illustrate these experiences.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Roundtable Impact assessment and Climate Change
Session Proposal ID 37
Lead Chair: Arend Kolhoff | CoChair: Wes fisher
Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Closed
Conference Topic: G11 Climate change
The climate change section has prepared an action plan with on-gpoing and new activities. The plan will be presented. The participants will be asked to identify and advocate for new activities aiming to further incorporate climate change in impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
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SDGs in food production and consumption - land and sea
Session Proposal ID 51
Lead Chair: Anne Dansey
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G1 Agriculture, forestry, and fisheries
The session will explore impact assessment models SIA, EIA and also strategic land use mapping and the growing blue economy to take into account social, economic and ecological impacts as well as learnings from the social and biophysical sciences. This includes challenges for maintaining environments to support restorative agriculture and renewable energy and providing space for small-scale fishing in a blue economy. Exploring current impacts on fish stocks and just livelihoods.
Acceptance Status: approve
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SESA and the Energy Transition in Indonesia
Session Proposal ID 28
Lead Chair: Miles Scott-Brown | CoChair: Barry Dalal Clayton
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: G5 Strategic environmental assessment
In response to the climate change challenge, countries must reduce GHG emissions in support of the Energy Transition Mechanism (ETM). A pioneering strategic environmental and social assessment (SESA) approach is being applied to ETM in Indonesia. Without question, it is the most appropriate tool for this purpose.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Should ESG & Impact Assessment be more aligned to meet biodiversity goals?
Session Proposal ID 93
Lead Chair: TBC TBC
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G10 Biodiversity and ecology
Interest in Environmental Social Governance is growing but what does that mean for Environmental Impact Assessment? Is ESG making a difference protecting biodiversity or is it all greenwash? This session will use real world examples from mining and other sectors to debate the overlap and opportunities between ESG and EIA.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Social Impact Assessment: How Universities' Impacts on Society are Evaluated
Session Proposal ID 66
Lead Chair: Takako Hashimoto
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T4 Measuring and evaluating the impact of impact assessment
Toward a sustainable society, social impact assessment (SIA), which evaluates positive values from an organization's diverse efforts to solve social issues, is spreading. In this session, we will focus on universities' SIA and discuss indicators, assessment of universities' social impact, challenges, and future direction of SIA.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Speeddate Debate
Session Proposal ID 35
Lead Chair: Jan Nuesink | CoChair: To be decided
Session Format: Debate | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: S1 Special to IAIA
Debate session among participants on some imminent and actual environmental issues / challenges in our global society
Acceptance Status: approve
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Strategic Environmental Assessments in Mekong Country
Session Proposal ID 106
Lead Chair: Try Thy
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
Open Development Cambodia proposes to host a panel discussion composed of members from Mekong countries—Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam—to explore regional considerations in policy, plan and programme making and strategic environmental assessments. The panel will focus on balancing nations’ interests, sustainable development, indigenous rights, and preserving biodiversity.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Sustainable Finance and ESG - double materiality assessment
Session Proposal ID 57
Lead Chair: Adina Relicovschi
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G14 Governance and implementation systems
Panel discussion on the challenges and opportunities on adopting a double materiality approach for annual reporting: gathering evidence, assessing, and explaining why issues are material from the “impact” (stakeholders) perspective (ECS related impacts) and/or from the “financial” perspective. The session will provide information on the newly introduced concept of "double materiality assessment" - impact on financial sector focusing on "green finance" in order to avoid greenwashing
Acceptance Status: approve
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Synergies of Impact Assessment and Circular Economy
Session Proposal ID 81
Lead Chair: Ralf Aschemann
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T1 Accelerators and agile strategies for impact assessment
This session deals with exploring potential synergies of the fields of impact assessment (IA) and circular economy (CE). EIAs and SEAs can be used to analyze the impact of CE related strategies and activities, whereas CE strategies - such as slowing, narrowing or closing resource flows - can be an idea generator for decreasing the environmental effects of projects or plans and programs.
Acceptance Status: approve
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The business of SIA: do commercial considerations compromise SIA quality?
Session Proposal ID 77
Lead Chair: Anthony Kung
Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Closed
Conference Topic: G6 Social impact assessment
Who wants more funding for SIAs? Yes, me too. This workshop focuses on SIAs that are commissioned by proponents and carried out by consultants. In a constrained commercial environment, how is SIA quality maintained (or not)? What compromises have to be made? How can we do better?
Acceptance Status: approve
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The contribution of Citizen Science to Participatory Impact Assessment
Session Proposal ID 95
Lead Chair: Alan Chenoweth
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: G4 Public participation
Citizen science, inclusive research, participatory planning and smart technology can be better integrated into IA, to improve data, involve and empower lay communities, and contribute to evidence-based environmental decisions and management. In discussions following paper presentations, participants can help develop an overview of issues, questions and future directions.
Acceptance Status: approve
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The Role of EIA in Deep-Sea Mining
Session Proposal ID 89
Lead Chair: Michael Clarke
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
The themes that will be covered in this session will address how traditional EIA as applied to terrestrial mining should be modified to address the specific challenges of the dee-sea context. Topics to be discussed include data collection, impacts, risk assessment, mitigation measures, mine closure, and regulatory challenges.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Towards More Sustainable Oil and Gas Projects - Strategies for Oil & Gas
Session Proposal ID 26
Lead Chair: Fernando Rodriguez
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T5 Transient and sustainable models for impact assessment
As hydrocarbons will remain a core part of the global energy mix for the foreseeable future, what are the key elements of sustainability we need to consider in impact assessment of oil and gas developments to make them more sustainable?
Acceptance Status: approve
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Transforming environmental governance at local and international scales to improve ESG outcomes
Session Proposal ID 84
Lead Chair: Mellissa Winfield
Session Format: Paper session | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
This session explores themes of transformative leadership and management in local and international assessment. Case studies explore challenges and successes using international standards to address local assessment gaps. The session ends with a forward-looking view on how international environmental governance can be more effective at improving ESG outcomes.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Transforming Leadership/Embracing Authenticity
Session Proposal ID 94
Lead Chair: Tom Hilditch
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
The session will gather a small team representing different disciplines and perspectives. It will attract speakers who understand the role of authenticity, truth, and reconciliation on the world of impact assessment.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Universities Should Lead Climate Action
Session Proposal ID 71
Lead Chair: Satoru ONO | CoChair: Sachihiko HARASHINA
Session Format: Panel discussion | Accepts Submissions: Invitation Only
Conference Topic: G14 Governance and implementation systems
What processes and mechanisms are important in organizing universities and research institutes to lead climate actions? This session discuss this question from the perspective of the social responsibility of them, and will focus on their roles in education, research and multi-actor collaboration from IA and experimental process of policy-making perspectives.
Acceptance Status: approve
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Workshop on EIA Leadership Practice
Session Proposal ID 30
Lead Chair: Ross Marshall | CoChair: Maria Partidario
Session Format: Theme forum – Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Open
Conference Topic: T2 Transformative leadership and management in impact assessment
Join us for three workshops examining EIA Leadership Style, Communication and Conflict Resolution. Discuss the tools and insights you have gained, the scenarios you have experienced and hear the views of other experienced EIA practiioners
Acceptance Status: approve
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Workshopping new international best practice IA follow-up guidance
Session Proposal ID 24
Lead Chair: Jos Arts | CoChair: Angus Morrison-Saunders
Session Format: Workshop | Accepts Submissions: Closed
Conference Topic: T3 Dynamic capabilities and quality innovation in impact assessment
A guidance document for IA follow-up will be presented and discussed with workshop participants (international experts and other stakeholders) in an interactive forum. Audience discussion is welcomed. The aim is to produce a final guidance document for publication by IAIA alongside the revised international best practice principles for IA follow-up.
Acceptance Status: approve