Episode 1: Corporate Due Diligence for Climate Change Impacts: The Status Quo

Concept

Developments around mandatory human rights due diligence laws are multiplying across Europe, and increasingly include climate change impacts within their scope. As a result, companies, regulators, judges, legal advisors, civil society and the public are asking what the legal implications of these due diligence laws will be for companies relating to their climate change impacts.

In this webinar series of the newly established BIICL Human Rights Due Diligence Forum, the discussion will turn on the nature of due diligence as a legal standard of care, how this can be applied in relation to climate change, and what the practical implications for companies are likely to be

Programme

The idea that companies have responsibilities to address their climate change impacts is not new. However, the recent BIICL-led study for the European Commission on due diligence requirements through the supply chain found that within companies, "human rights and climate change processes often take place in 'silos'".

This panel will discuss the status quo of current corporate due diligence practices relating to climate change impacts, and consider to what extent these could be utilised, integrated, adapted and expanded to meet any future mandatory due diligence legal standard.

Confirmed speakers

• David Boyd, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment
• Stuart Bruce, Wilmer Hale
• Shona Hawkes, Global Witness
• Clotilde Henriot, ClientEarth
  
• Caroline Sloan, Sloan Consulting
• Jaap Spier, Climate Principles for Enterprises
  

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