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Responsible Investor’s Guide to Commodities: an Overview of Best Practices across Commodity-Exposed Asset Classes
This guide presents a range of best-practice measures for investors and their consultants aimed at managing environmental and social risks that they should carefully consider and implement across different commodity-related investments. It covers E&S risk assessments across different sectors of investments, and includes a special section on investments in agriculture and farmland.
A guide to traceability: A practical approach to advance sustainability in global supply chains
This guide provides companies with an overview of the importance of traceability for sustainability purposes, outlines the global opportunities and challenges it represents and summarises practical steps for implementing traceability programmes within company operations. It
• defines traceability and explores its history, benefits and challenges, including an overview of current collaborative schemes on traceability,
United Nations Global Compact
The world's largestcorporate sustainability initiative
A call to companies to align strategies and operations with universal principles on human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and take actions that advance societal goals.
At the UN Global Compact, we aim to mobilize a global movement of sustainable companies and stakeholders to create the world we want. That’s our vision.
To make this happen, the UN Global Compact supports companies to:
A Business Reference Guide - United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
This guide aims to help businesses -companies, investors, buyers- understand, respect, and support the rights of indigenous peoples by illustrating how these rights are relevant to business activities. It encourages business to engage in meaningful consultation and partnership with indigenous peoples on a local level and to adapt the principles discussed and practices suggested here to their distinct situations and contexts. It
Free, Prior and Informed Consent Guide for RSPO Members
This Guide provides advice for agribusiness companies on how to responsibly implement the FPIC principles in their operations. It is based on the revised RSPO standard (the Principles, Criteria and Indicators) pertinent to FPIC. The guide
• sets out the requirements of the RSPO Principles, Criteria and Indicators relevant to FPIC, and
• provides recommendations of best practice for how to achieve compliance with these requirements.
Roundtable on Sustainable Plam Oil
We are a not-for-profit that unites stakeholders from the 7 sectors of the palm oil industry: oil palm producers, processors or traders, consumer goods manufacturers, retailers, banks/investors, and environmental and social non-governmental organisations (NGOs), to develop and implement global standards for sustainable palm oil.
Guide for Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) Processes
This guidance is primarily directed at Rainforest Alliance auditors and farm or group administrator representatives that follow the Rainforest Alliance criteria. It can also be used more broadly by companies who aim to follow the FPIC principles in their operations. It describes
• the cases where an FPIC process is required; and
• the steps required in the FPIC process, in cases where an FPIC process is necessary.
Rainforest Alliance
The Rainforest Alliance is an international non-profit organization working at the intersection of business, agriculture, and forests to make responsible business the new normal. We are an alliance of companies, farmers, foresters, communities, and consumers committed to creating a world where people and nature thrive in harmony.
A Guide to Gender Impact Assessment for the Extractive Industries
This guide provides information for companies in the mining, oil and gas sector - and their consultants - on how to undertake a gender impact assessment to gain and maintain a “social licence to operate” with impacted communities and avoid conflict and costly shut-downs. It
• describes some important principles and approaches that should underpin a gender impact assessment,
• provides a framework for companies to identify, understand and respond to the gender impacts of an extractive industry project, and
• outlines some key concepts, definitions and case studies.
Principles for Responsible Contracts - Integrating the Management of Human Rights Risks into State-Investor Contract Negotiations - Guidance for Negotiators
These principles provide guidance on ways to align business objectives with the safeguard of human rights. The principles aim to integrate the management of human rights risks into contract negotiations on investment projects between host State entities and foreign business investors, building on the UN’s Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.