Connecting the Sustainability Dots on Environmental and Human Rights Due Diligence, New York

BSR Members Only

Date and Time

September 26, 2024
2:00 pm-4:00 pm EDT

Location

New York

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2024 has been a pivotal year for sustainability regulations. This context is challenging companies to consider whether their approaches to identifying and managing their impacts on people and the environment are aligned and consistent with regulatory expectations. Companies are realizing that achieving this requires building bridges between different functions, moving away from siloed approaches to managing human rights and environmental impacts towards a more integrated understanding of sustainability aligned with business needs. 

Please join us in New York for a private discussion regarding how to approach environmental and human rights due diligence within the evolving regulatory landscape. Key questions to be explored include: 

• What are the standards underlying the concept of sustainability due diligence and how does this relate to how the human rights and environmental fields have traditionally interpreted “due diligence”?
• How are companies thinking about the links between their efforts to identify, prioritize, and manage their human rights and environmental impacts? 
• What are the key concerns for business leaders when it comes to aligning with due diligence expectations? 
• To what extent do emerging regulations require companies to connect, align, or integrate their approach to human rights and environmental impacts? 
• How can human rights, environmental, procurement, reporting, and compliance teams work towards a more aligned approach to due diligence that leverages touchpoints and synergies as appropriate? 

This event is for BSR members and partners and especially those in sustainability, environmental, human rights, procurement, reporting, legal, and leadership functions. We encourage you to register for the event together with your colleagues from across those teams for a more impactful session.

Scheduled Speakers

• Gabriella Herzog, Human Rights Director, Bunge
• Amy Lehr, Assistant General Counsel for Human Rights and Sustainability at Mars
• Paloma Muñoz Quick, Director, Human Rights Standards, BSR
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Paloma Muñoz Quick
Director, Human Rights Standards, BSR
New York
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Paloma leads BSR’s work on Human Rights Standards, including standard-setting, knowledge management, and helping companies respond to emerging standards and regulation. She is also Senior Advisor to BSR’s Finance & Human Rights Practice.
Prior to joining BSR, Paloma was Advisor to the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights and Senior Consultant of the UN B-Tech Project, where she developed a vision for promoting the uptake of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights among investors and guidance on responsible investment in digital technologies. Prior to the UN, Paloma launched and led the Investor Alliance for Human Rights, where she developed thought leadership on the investor responsibility to respect human rights and supported stewardship engagements across industries. She also worked at the Danish Institute for Human Rights advising companies, governments, and civil society on business and human rights.
Paloma is a member of the US government’s Advisory Committee on Responsible Business Conduct. She sits on the Editorial Board of Developments in the Field of the Business and Human Rights Journal of Cambridge University.
She holds a Master of International Affairs (M.I.A.) in Human Rights from the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University and a B.A. in Political Science, also from Columbia University. 
Paloma is Chilean-American and is fluent in English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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