Tag Archives: Supply Chain

Local Stakeholder Engagement on Human Rights – 5 Tips to Get it Right

Virtually any industrial development nowadays with local footprint is calling for serious local stakeholder engagement. Regulators, investors and good practice to build systemic ESG risk assessment encourage proactive risk mitigation of human right related risks. 5 tips to get it right in this article

Elimination of Child Labor: 5 Concrete Approaches for Companies

Customs, investors, lawyers are increasing pressure on companies’ supply chains to eliminate child labor. 5 concrete suggestions from our experience.

Human Rights, a Source of Legal Instability for Business? Not Really. What’s at Stake is More Profound

Multinational companies are increasingly given formal notice by civil society on the basis of human right due diligence laws. A new source of insecurity for companies as some say? What’s at stake is more profound for business and investors

Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate Business & Human Rights on its Way. 6 Areas to Monitor

Legally binding instrument to regulate multinational companies in International Human Rights Law is making progress. Here are 6 areas to closely monitor.

How to Scale Up Tech Solutions and Amplify Their Sustainability Impacts

Tech based applications with positive sustainability impacts has significantly increased in the past decade. Mass adoption is critical to scale up impacts

Recasting the risk/return ratio at the time of ESG

It is high time to update the reading of the risk/return trade-off at a time when ESG criteria are becoming increasingly important.

Human Rights Due Diligence Across Investment Decisions – A 5 Step Approach

How to factor human right due diligence across investment decisions. Here’s a step by step approach developed across projects to help and provide some initial guidance.

What the New Business Roundtable Statement is Telling Stakeholders About Sustainable Business Made in USA today?

What to think about sustainable business “made in USA” today, when 181 most influential CEOS agree upon a new Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation?

How Technologies Can Improve Working Conditions Across Supply Chains?

Technologies can improve working conditions of workers. Let’s explore risk assessment, traceability, grievance mechanism, training programs.

Fighting Deforestation Across Agricultural Commodity Supply Chains is Calling for Social Performance

Energy transition is generating massive procurement of agricultural commodities. Companies can mitigate deforestation risks with social performance programs