Connecting the Dots on Environmental and Human Rights Due Diligence, San Jose, CA

San Jose, CA

November 21, 2024

10:15 am - 12:15 pm PST

2024 is set to be a pivotal year for sustainability regulations. Emerging regulatory changes are requiring companies to conduct “due diligence” on human rights and environmental impacts in their value chains. This is challenging companies to consider whether their approaches to identifying, assessing, and addressing these impacts are aligned and consistent with regulatory expectations.

To achieve this, companies are realizing the need to build bridges between different functions, moving away from siloed approaches to human rights and environmental impacts towards a more integrated understanding of sustainability aligned with business needs.

Please join us in San Jose alongside the Responsible Business 2024 conference 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 human rights and environmental due diligence?
What are the key concerns for business leaders?
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, and procurement teams work towards a more aligned approach to due diligence that leverages touchpoints and synergies as appropriate?

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

Event is at capacity and registration is now closed.

Scheduled Speakers

Jenny Vaughan, Managing Director, Human Rights, BSR

Managing Director, Human Rights, BSR

San Francisco

Jenny leads BSR’s human rights team and portfolio across consulting and collaboration. In addition to directing BSR’s Human Rights Working Group, Jenny leads human rights assessments and partners with companies to develop human rights strategies and stakeholder engagement plans. She works across industries with a focus on energy, technology, and conflict-affected and high-risk contexts.

Prior to joining BSR, Jenny worked at Mercy Corps for over a decade in field management and advisory roles to prevent and mitigate conflict, promote inclusive economic development, and build civil society capacity. As the organization’s first Peace and Governance Director in Myanmar and later as the Director of the Peace and Conflict technical advisory team, she designed and implemented programs to reduce violence, promote peace and development, and address critical and emerging threats like climate change, disruptive technology, and poor governance. She has experience in context analysis, stakeholder engagement, negotiation, project design and implementation, and strategic planning. Jenny has lived and worked in countries including Myanmar, Indonesia, Nepal, Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Nigeria, Central African Republic, and Cameroon.

Jenny holds a MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a BA in Psychology from the University of Wisconsin at Madison.