Network meeting: ESG & Stakeholder Engagement – building the Human Rights Business case

Network meeting for ESG & Stakeholder Engagement: Building the Human Rights Business case – How to move from compliance to value creation?

The meeting is exclusively for members of the network.

Building a strong, compelling human rights business case is top of mind to network members. Framing human rights in financial and strategic terms enables clearer investment decisions and prioritization, and is essential to secure executive and financial buy-in.

In other words, to enable the journey from compliance to value creation ESG teams globally must clearly demonstrate how responsible practices protect and create business value – so human rights efforts are recognized as a driver and lever of sustainable value creation and not perceived a pure compliance cost. This can be done by linking human rights risks to financial, legal, and reputational impacts and articulating how human rights efforts support risk management, operational resilience, and long-term competitiveness.

Yet, even if evidence shows that human rights risks translate into financial, operational, and reputational exposure, whereas effective human rights management strengthens resilience, supply security, innovation, market-access, and long-term competitiveness, many ESG teams struggle to connect human rights action to core business metrics and decision-making.

This network meeting explores how members quantify human rights impacts, translate risks into financial language, and articulate the commercial relevance of human rights efforts. Members share how they frame, quantify, and communicate the value of human rights – and which approaches resonate well with C-suites and board.

Tentative program

1:00             Network lunch

1:30             Welcome & news from the Secretariat

1:40             Around the table

2:00             Topic of the day: Inspirational presentation by expert

2:30             Topic of the day: Inspirational company case

2:45             Topic of the day: Member discussion

3:45             Round-up of meeting

Contact advisor Neel Gammelgård for more information: ng@etiskhandel.dk.

The meeting is exclusively for members of the network.