Around 50 countries have adopted a national action plan to enforce Human Rights due diligence, though most rely on voluntary approaches, awareness-raising and capacity-building.

Meanwhile, frontrunners in France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and California have introduced legally-binding instruments to compel large businesses to monitor, prevent and address Human Rights and environmental abuses across their supply chains. Now, the mandatory due diligence EU directive slated for 2021 could very well convey the legal certainty businesses aspire to, while ensuring responsible players are not undercut by the race to the bottom.

So where do we stand now? Do we have to means to require companies hand over evidence, publicly report investigations results and empower victims to seek and obtain access to remedy? To what extent can they encompass issues ranging from labor conditions to climate change, pollution and biodiversity? How can multinational corporations navigate multiple requirements across equally multiple jurisdictions?

To share an overview of legally-binding instruments, Ksapa welcomes the perspectives of Didier Bergeret, Director Social Sustainability (Consumer Goods Forum) and Lene Wendland, Chief of Business & Human Rights branch (Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights). Together, we will look in to key tools to date, gaps and solutions across sectors and geographies.

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The blog post Webinar | Human Rights Due Diligence: Global Legal Framework first appeared on Ksapa - en.

A flagship program at Ksapa is our Scale Up Training, Traceability and Impact (SUTTI) initiative, designed to improve the productivity, livelihoods and resilience of smallholders in typically fragmented commodity supply chains across South-East Asia and Africa.

To affect a large-scale transition toward socially and environmentally-sound production practices, our teams are structuring scalable capacity-building programs that combine in-person and digital training sessions. By aligning industry and other stakeholders as part of a long-term value-creation scheme, we not only intend to impact 1 million farmers within the next 10 years but also contribute to supply chain traceability.

In this webinar, Ksapa will share perspectives with potential buyers, IT solutions providers and supporting investors. This way we will outline key challenges and concrete solutions for scaling traceability and Capacity-Building Solutions across complex agricultural supply chains.

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The blog post Webinar | Digital Tools for Responsible Supply Chain Impact first appeared on Ksapa - en.

In 2020, Fashion Positive released the first-ever Circular Materials Guidelines for the apparel, footwear and textile industry. The document defines just what constitutes circular fibers and offers recommendations for design to apply them toward fostering a truly circular fashion.

Fashion Positive developed the Circular Materials Guidelines in open collaboration with key industry players. Where does the industry stand now? Are there best practices to address chemical safety, cleaner water, and renewable energy? What are the options for funding innovation for circularity at scale?

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The blog post WEBINAR: Setting Circular Materials Goals & Metrics first appeared on Ksapa - en.

Session recorded on December 8th, 2020

Climate

So your company has analyzed its risks, built internal alignment up and down and issued a bold sustainability strategy aligned with a 1,5°c global warming trajectory… What now? Can innovative finance structuring give teeth to sustainability commitments? Can it prevail while businesses are in full cost-control mode to offset coronavirus impacts?

Collaborative investment schemes can bring industrial and investment players together. The goal is to create the financial conditions for suppliers and client companies to step up their efforts and match corporate commitments.

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The blog post Ksapa Webinar – Solutions Financing the Energy Transition first appeared on Ksapa - en.

Session recorded on October 27th, 2020

Sustainability ESG

Stakeholder dialog is at the heart of Corporate Responsibility, ESG and Sustainability commitments. Many businesses still find it challenging to meaningfully engage stakeholders despite growing demands for concertation, transparency and process improvement. Then came Covid-19 and its cohort of social unrest.

To advance responsible and business conduct amid conflicting cost-cutting policies, companies must engage stakeholders better, faster and more broadly. Ksapa will share 5 priority areas for immediate action and welcome the expert perspectives of Susanne Stormer (Novo Nordisk) and Christèle Delbé (Bonsucro) on the corresponding challenges and solutions.

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The blog post WEBINAR: ESG and Stakeholder Engagement in a Contentious Digital Era first appeared on Ksapa - en.

Session recorded on September 8th, 2020

Human Rights

Business and Regulators are putting enforcement mechanisms and civil liabilities front and center and throughout the supply chain.

The news the EU Justice Commission would soon mandate Human Rights due diligence puts enforcement mechanisms and civil liabilities front and center. The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights would already have businesses identify the scale, scope, remendability and likelihood of their impacts, take steps to prevent and mitigate them and track the effectiveness of such measures.

So what will it take for companies to develop, implement, monitor and communicate effective Human Rights risk remediation? How do they cover not only their activities and subsidiaries, but also their supply chains? Ksapa suggests 3 approaches to align responsible purchasing with Human Rights requirements and invites the perspectives of international players to consider key challenges and solutions.

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The blog post WEBINAR: Human Rights Risk Remediation Across the Supply Chain first appeared on Ksapa - en.

Session recorded on September 1st, 2020

Human Rights Sustainability

Shaping Inclusive Growth: Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession – Ksapa partners with the Harvard Belfer Center and OECD for insightful webinar!

Covid-19 is generating unprecedent economic and social crisis as inequalities are shaping explosive social contexts. Meanwhile, environmental challenges the likes of climate change, biodiversity loss and water scarcity are creating unique pressures for business, investors and policy-makers.

Susan Winterberg with fellowship from the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs joins Ksapa to debate where it makes most sense for companies to use lay-offs to address their financial and competitiveness challenges. Romina Boarini, OECD, Acting Director, Center for Wellbeing Inclusion, Sustainability & Equal Opportunities will be sharing perspective from business and government coalitions navigating the crisis. In specific settings, other approaches pertaining to inclusive growth strategies would produce better results for customers, employees and shareholders and ultimately foster better long-term performance of the company.

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The blog post WEBINAR: Leading Inclusive Growth: Great Recession Insights first appeared on Ksapa - en.

Session recorded on June 30th, 2020

Human Rights

Business & Human Rights : what to expect from a EU directive on mandatory Human Rights due diligence by 2021?

For the past 10 years, companies have been exploring and applying the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. Echoing multiple national regulatory initiatives in California, France, UK, the Netherlands, Germany and Japan notably, the European Commission announced it would implement a directive on mandatory human rights due diligence by 2021. What is the business feedback to date? How would a European directive enforce respect for Human Rights across supply chains beyond what is already in place? How might the Covid-19 pandemic impact its application?

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The blog post WEBINAR: EU Corporate Due Diligence: A New Era for Business first appeared on Ksapa - en.

Session recorded on June 16th, 2020

Circularity

Sanitary Challenges and Plastics Stewardship – Boosting circularity regardless of current headwinds?

The Covid-19 pandemic has impacted our daily lives, communities and economies around the world. Health concerns tend to encourage – rightly or not – a massive use of disposables. How can companies and investors navigate possible contradictory injunctions and offer a sanitary response that meets the stakes while increasing equally important commitments to phase-out plastics?

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The blog post WEBINAR | COVID-19: Advancing Circular Plastics Solutions first appeared on Ksapa - en.

Session recorded on May 12th, 2020

Sustainability

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The blog post WEBINAR: 5 Key Questions to Prevent SDG Washing in Business first appeared on Ksapa - en.