The GoodCorporation Framework on Human rights and Environmental Due Diligence is a set of responsible business principles which can help organisations to improve the robustness of their management practices in order to identify, prevent, mitigate and remediate their human rights and environmental impacts across their chain of activities.  

Use of this framework will help companies looking to comply with the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). In line with the directive, our framework defines ‘due diligence’ to mean the whole system of managing human rights and environmental impacts in an organisation’s own operations, its supply chain and certain downstream activities (including transport, storage and distribution). Due diligence covers not just the activity of evaluating adverse impacts, but also management and remediation, as well as the mechanisms used to identify and alert the organisation to adverse impacts.  

Our framework draws directly on the measures set out in the CSDDD and follows its structure, while also incorporating best practice and international guidelines. It can be used to ensure compliance with the law, which will minimise an organisation’s potential liability for the fines, penalties and compensation available under the CSDDD.

Our framework can form the basis of an analysis against CSDDD requirements to help an organisation identify the gaps in its human rights and environmental due diligence processes and procedures. It can also be used to guide the development of a robust human rights and environmental due diligence system.