Richard Howitt is a Strategic Advisor on Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability, Senior Associate at Frank Bold LLP, and former Chief Executive Officer of the International Integrated Reporting Council.
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Richard Howitt is tagged in 8 stories.
UN Business and Human Rights Forum, Day 3: Business Must Approach DEI Issues Through a Human Rights Lens
Organizational Change / The irony at this Forum is that so much of the conversation is about abuses in company supply chains, often far outside company walls. However, race discrimination is also close to home — taking place every day within the companies themselves. - 5 days ago
UN Business and Human Rights Forum, Day 2: What’s New in Mandatory Human Rights ’Due Diligence’ Law?
Supply Chain / Companies are obliged to monitor and manage environmental and human rights standards in their supply chains. This week saw major steps forward in support for enforcing human rights due diligence by law, as well as major debates in shaping the new laws. Here are my 10 takeaways from the debates. - 6 days ago
UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, Day 1: ‘The Most Vulnerable Are Always in Your Supply Chain’
Supply Chain / What links the two major themes to emerge from the day — COVID and climate — is the need for companies to take steps to assist vulnerable people in supply chains, and to ensure their needs are always taken into account. - 1 week ago
How Business Can Avoid Fuelling Conflict and Work to Build Peace
Walking the Talk / On the third and final day at the UN Forum on Business and Human Rights, it was clear all businesses are being asked to address a fourth ‘p’ — peace. As well as helping to prevent conflict, companies are increasingly taking responsibility for sustaining peace. - 11 months ago
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Anti-Corruption, Respect for Human Rights Are Part of One Holistic Business Challenge
Walking the Talk / What Legal Counsels and Chief Compliance Officers have to learn from sustainability and human rights experts is that this can never be a question of compliance alone. - 11 months ago
How Can Sustainability Professionals Uphold Mandatory Rules on Human Rights?
Supply Chain / While we’ve seen steady if uncertain progress on human rights — and more from business than from governments — there are dangers if the message heard by business is one of complacency. - 11 months ago
Global Leaders Convene to Identify Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Address the SDGs
Collaboration / Sustainability is at risk. And whilst the risks that go beyond climate change may be less well-understood, they are just as pressing. That was the message at the first meeting of the European Union’s Multi-Stakeholder Platform on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on 10 January in Brussels. - 2 years ago
Richard Howitt on a Sustainability-Inclusive IIRC: I'm Up for the Challenge!
New Metrics / This post is a response to a challenge posed earlier this year to new IIRC Chief Executive Richard Howitt by Dr. Mark W. McElroy and Martin P. Thomas, co-authors of The Multicapital Scorecard (2016). The goal to make Integrated Reporting the global norm in corporate reporting is indeed at a breakthrough moment. - 3 years ago