Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence Framework

The GoodCorporation Framework on Human rights and Environmental Due Diligence can help companies comply with the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). It provides a set of responsible business principles which can help organisations to improve the robustness of their management practices in order to identify, prevent, mitigate and remediate their human rights and environmental impacts across their chain of activities.

Our framework draws directly on the measures set out in the CSDDD and follows its structure, while also incorporating best practice and international guidelines. It can be used to ensure compliance with the law, which will minimise an organisation’s potential liability for the fines, penalties and compensation available under the CSDDD.

Our framework can form the basis of an analysis against CSDDD requirements to help an organisation identify the gaps in its human rights and environmental due diligence processes and procedures. It can also be used to guide the development of a robust human rights and environmental due diligence system.

Key principles covered by the framework

Top-level commitment: senior management actively promotes and communicates on the company’s due diligence system

Due diligence policy and processes: the company has a robust due diligence policy and systems in place to identify, prevent, mitigate and remediate its human rights and environmental impacts across its chain of activities

Combating climate change: the organisation develops a transition plan for climate change mitigation

Stakeholder engagement and grievance mechanism: the organisation consults stakeholders to identify and mitigate its impacts, and has a grievance mechanism procedure in place

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Communication: the organisation prepares an annual statement on the key elements of its due diligence system

Monitoring: the effectiveness of the organisation’s due diligence system is reviewed at least annually

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CSDDD compliance services

GoodCorporation offers expertise in the management of human rights and environmental impacts with a range of services to help companies prepare for and comply with the CSDDD. These services include:

Development and integration of human rights and environmental due diligence

Identification and assessment of adverse impacts including risk mapping, human rights impact assessments and supply chain mapping, and emissions reviews

Development of policies and procedures to build compliance practices

Training and embedding

Grievance mechanisms

Monitoring and progress reviews including KPIs, efficacy assessments

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