About the Conference
ESG-Compliance is a hot topic these days. There’s much talk on it and the internet is floated by ESG-related websites. But so far, robust knowledge about what the possible impacts of new regulations are, is hardly available. How are the new regulations handled by big companies in different countries, and will e.g. the violations of human rights or environmental crimes be contained? How are countries and companies outside the EU adjusting?
Our aim is to analyze if and how the emerging ESG framework is preventing human rights violations, environmental crimes, and is changing the governance structures of big companies. Therefore, we will also check how this regulatory picture differs between the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and within the EU.
Taking up the fashion industry, the food sector and the case of wood processing and furniture production, we ask what kind of impact the regulations are going to have in these cases.
We are two research group at Manchester (MONI) and Heidelberg (HeiGOS), specialized in the analysis of organizational crimes, who are decided to take up the topic, and to do research on these questions. Wim Huisman from Amsterdam is joining the group.
The workshop shall contribute to specify the regulatory pictures in different countries and to provide indicators to measure the impact on prevention and ESG-Compliance.
program (6th December):
morning session
Campus Bergheim, Bergheimer Straße 58, Bibliotheksraum CBS:
09.00 Welcome (Markus Pohlmann, Heidelberg Univ.)
09.15 ESG-Compliance (Markus Jüttner, EY, DICO)
10.00 Sustainability Considerations in Corporate Frameworks (Michael Nietsch, EBS Law School)
10.45 Coffee break
11.15 Food and Human Rights in the Supply Chain (Nicholas Lord, Manchester Univ., UK)
12.00 Towards an evidence-based human rights due diligence and risk-based ESG compliance? Profiling industry risks of involvement in atrocity crimes (Wim Huisman, VU Amsterdam)
12.45 Lunch (Marstall Mensa)
afternoon session
Max-Weber-Haus, Neuenheim:
14.00 ESG-Compliance in Fast Fashion (Jonathan Davies, Manchester Univ., UK)
14.45 ESGs in the Dutch Chemical Industry (Marieke Kluin, Leiden Univ.)
15.15 Coffee and cake break
15.45 ESG-In the Chemical Industry (Fabienne Stamm, Envalior, Düsseldorf)
16.30 ESG Compliance in the Romanian Timber Industry (Monika Bancsina, Heidelberg Univ.)
17.15 Conclusions
18.00 Walk across the Christmas market
20.00 Dinner Wirtshaus zum Nepomuk
