Date: 20 January 2025 and 21 January 2025
Duration: 2 days
Format: In-person
What do we offer?
- Build the knowledge and skills you need to ensure your company operates in line with EU corporate sustainability standards.
- Receive a certificate from CORE and Minerva BHR detailing/evidencing the workshop content.
- Leave with a personalized roadmap to take the next steps in your sustainability journey.
This 2-day in-person, interactive workshop is intended to upskill corporate professionals on social sustainability topics. It features real-life examples from companies of different sizes and immersive, scenario-based, role play exercises to practice concepts/learnings.
Benefits:
By participating in this training, you’ll learn about:
- Corporate sustainability due diligence and the ESG landscape
- Legal requirements for corporate sustainability in the EU and worldwide are including EU CSDDD, CSRD, Taxonomy and Deforestation Regulation
- Practical steps in sustainability risk management and implementing sustainability due diligence in your organization
- Improving access to the EU market and to overseas financing
- Addressing investor, customer and policymaker requests, questions
- Building alliances with key functions at your organisation, obtain the resources and buy-in you need, and lead the mindset change in your organisation
- Processes and solutions other sustainability professionals are applying to overcome common sustainability challenges/ to manage ESG topics/corporate sustainability risks
- Good practice examples from European companies already implementing corporate sustainability due diligence
The program is also a great opportunity for networking and peer learning. You will learn in small groups and be able to exchange views and ideas with other sustainability professionals.
Recommended for:
Corporate professionals performing or involved in ESG risk management and corporate social sustainability activities as well as anyone working in the legal, compliance, sustainability, human rights or supply-chain-related functions of an organization.
Curriculum
What’s ESG and S in ESG? / What’s corporate sustainability? / What does human rights have to do with business?
- Evolution of sustainability from voluntary to mandatory
- UNGPs to EU CSDDD
Legal landscape: EU and beyond
- Comparative analysis of CSDDD, CSRD, LkSG, Loi de Vigilance
- Intersections with US UFLPA, EUDR, EU Taxonomy, EU Ban on Forced Labor etc.
Business case for sustainability due diligence
- Corporate illustrations/Case examples of legal, reputational, financial and operational risk
- Case examples of benefits of due diligence – responsible business
Sustainability and human rights due diligence (HRDD) steps
Good practice examples from German and French laws
- Responsible procurement
- Responsible contracting
- Responsible business models
Cultural shift/transformation in doing business
- Awareness building
- Employee capacity building
- Supply chain capacity
- Sustainability leadership
Sustainability due diligence in practice: scenario-based small group exercise
- Group exercise: ESG governance
- Group exercise: how do you go about risk identification and prioritization
- Group exercise: how do you discuss sustainability risk management with C-level/board?
- Group exercise: how can you increase leverage?
- HRO/CSO role plays – immersive decision making scenario (decision tree)
Closing Q&A
Certificate ceremony
