Rights Advisory

Sustainability due diligence

Effectively assess, prioritise and address human rights and social impacts to maximise value and meet regulatory requirements. It starts with a sustainable corporate strategy.

Strategy, governance
and best practices

Rights Advisory provides meaningful advice on social sustainability strategy, governance and human rights and environmental due diligence tailored for corporate clients.

Services

Empowering leadership 
for sustainable & resilient business strategies 

Our services include:

  • Ensuring corporate strategies, business models and climate transition plans are aligned with social sustainability goals and requirements.
  • Creating a governance structure and culture that enables effective risk management and harvest the collective expertise and capabilities of the organisation.
  • Building senior leadership human rights competence and business resilience in the rapidly changing global environment.
  • Preparing legal and compliance functions for social and climate expectations and legal requirements, and how to align legal advice to corporate sustainability strategies and business models.

Enhancing human rights due diligence and social sustainability practices

  • Assessing and addressing human rights and social impacts across the value chain.
  • Stakeholder engagement strategies, processes and practices.
  • Aligning with legal requirements and stakeholder expectations. Adapting to a rapidly changing environment, locally and globally.
Our expertise enhances the advice provided by external counsel, technical advisors, and data providers, helping companies move beyond superficial compliance to meet legal requirements effectively.

Our services include:

  • Human rights and Just Transition strategies and programmes.
  • Sustainability policies with stakeholder input.
  • Practical and effective sustainability due diligence processes.
  • Human rights risks and social impact, impact and materiality assessments, including in the nexus human rights – climate and nature.
  • Integration of sustainability polices in risk management and governance.
  • Stakeholder engagement, strategies, plans and execution.
  • Value chain risk management, including prevention action plans.
  • Responsible contracting and assurances.
  • Responsible exit strategies, plans and execution.
  • Remediation strategies, plans and execution, including in response to or to prevent litigation or authority action.
  • Operational-level grievance mechanisms and complaints procedures – including levering existing hotlines and whistleblowing mechanisms.