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Day one: Knowing and showing respect for people’s rights during crisis and human rights due diligence as a tool for resilience for future crisis
GBI members The Coca-Cola Company and NXP Semiconductors provided forum participants with valuable insights from practice during the pandemic.
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Day two: Business perspectives on the UNGPs10+ Roadmap
GBI Director Jo Reyes moderated a panel providing business perspectives for the UN Working Group's UNGPs10+ project. During the session, participants heard from major business organisations and perspectives from around the world on progress and challenges from the past 10 years of UNGPs implementation, together with recommendations for the roadmap for the next decade. This included a call from GBI CEO Ron Popper for a "smarter mix" of mandatory and voluntary measures.
The panel included contributions from Global Compact Local Networks from Brazil, Turkey, Spain, Poland, Colombia and Indonesia, together with insights from an informal UN Working Group reference group coordinated by GBI, including amfori, BSR, CNTAC, ICC, ICMM, IOE, PRI, RBA, UNGC and USCIB. This was accompanied by the publication of a Compendium of Insights providing greater depth of feedback for the project. The session ended with reflections from Dante Pesce of the UN Working Group.
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Access the Compendium of Insights here
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Day three: Closing Plenary
During the closing plenary of the Forum, GBI Chair Andrea Shemberg provided thoughts from the business perspective to the UN Working Group for their UNGPs10+ roadmap.
Andrea focused on five key focus areas for the next decade: building human resilience in all parts of global value chains; the internal integration of global agenda items and policy coherence; better and smarter regulation; improve access to remedy; and humility and continuous learning and improvement.
Access Andrea’s comments on UN TV here from 58 mins 30 seconds