DATE: Wednesday, April 15, 2015

TIME: 9:00 am – 5:30 pm

LOCATION: Baker & McKenzie LLP

White House Conference Room

815 Connecticut Ave NW #900

Washington, DC 20006

9:00 – 9:15  Welcome & Announcements – Laura Chapman Rubbo, Chair (The Walt Disney Company)

9:15 – 9:30  USCIB by the Numbers – a brief presentation of data on USCIB members’ CSR reporting (in the aggregate)

9:30 – 10:15  Overview of Developments –the neest reporting initiatives, regulatory frameworks and tools

• European Legislation:
  • New Non-financial Reporting Disclosure Mandate in The EU
  • French bill on the duty of care in relation to subsidiaries and subcontractors of French companies

• RAFI Reporting & Assurance Framework on UN Guiding Principles –– Caroline Rees or Rachel Davis (Shift)

• Human Rights Reporting Benchmark – Mike Lombardo (Calvert Investments)

• The Measuring Human Rights Project (LSE and BHRRC) – Damiano de Felice (LSE)

Additional background:  newest empirical research on human rights implementation by companies

• Damiano de Felice (LSE), Measuring Respect for Human Rights by Corporations: Challenges and Opportunities in the Production of Business and Human Rights Indicators, Human Rights Quarterly (2015)

• Economist Intelligence Unit, The Road from Principles to Practice:  Today’s Challenges for Business in Respecting Human Rights (March 2015) (853 senior corporate executives carried out in November and December 2014

• Business & Human Rights Resource Center, Action on business & human rights:  Where are we now? – Key findings from our Action Platforms (survey results from 41 government respondents (of 100 asked) and 94 company respondents (of 180 asked) surveyed between Sept 2014 and January 2015)

• Menno T. Kaminga, Company Responses to Human Rights Reports: An Empirical Analysis (2015) (covers responses to 1877 requests made by the Resource Centre over the past nine years)

10:15 – 10:30  Coffee Break

10:30 – 12:20  Roundtable of Experts on Corporate Sustainability Reporting – a variety of investment-side analysts and market players reflect on how CSR reporting is analyzed, quantified, ranked and used in investment decisions – and whether there is just too much of it!

• Moderator: Mike Wallace, Managing Director, BrownFlynn (1^st US Global Reporting Initiative Certified Training Partner)

• Morgan Tarrant, ESG Analyst, Bloomberg Analytics Team

•  Mark Tulay – COO, Global Initiative for Sustainability Ratings (GISR)
  • GISR Sustainability Principles Comparison

• Louis D. Coppola – Co-Founder & Executive Vice President, Governance & Accountability Institute (US Data Partner for Global Reporting Initiative)
  • Sustainability – What Matters?
  • Report analyzing GRI reporting companies and organizations with the top 10 and bottom 10 performance indicators across 35 sectors

• Mike Lombardo, Senior Sustainability Analyst and Manager, Index, Calvert Investments

• Cheryl Gustitus, Global Director of Marketing and Strategic Initiatives, Sustainalytics

• Jed S. Ela, Senior Advisor, Sustainable Supply Chains, General Services Administration

12:30 – 1:30  Meet the Author: John Morrison, “The Social License to Operate” (via video conference)

1:45 – 2:20  Update on the UN Sustainable Development Goals Process
& Financing for Development – Tam Nguyen (Bechtel), Brian Lowery (Monsanto) and Ariel Meyerstein (USCIB

2:20 – 2:45  USCIB’s Business for Post-2015 Website & ways to get involved in the post-2015 sustainable development agenda – Ariel Meyerstein (USCIB)

2:45 – 3:15  IPIECA’s Operational Grievance Mechanisms Report – Gabriella Rigg Herzog  (Hess Corp.) (guidance on implementation drawing on seven pilot projects and other shared learning)

3:15 – 4:00  Update on Access to Remedy Initiatives – Matthias Thorns (International Organization of Employers)

• Office of the High Commissioner Access to Domestic Remedy  Work Plan

•  G7 Supply Chains Initiative, including “Vision Zero” Fund; IOE Commentary

• Council of Europe Draft  Recommendation on Implementing the UN Guiding Principles; IOE Commentary

• ABA White Paper on the proposed international legally binding instrument on business and human rights

4:00 – 4:15  Coffee Break

4:15 – 4:30  Update on OECD Responsible Business Conduct Proactive Agenda Projects and other OECD Initiatives – Laura Chapman Rubbo (The Walt Disney Company) & Ariel Meyerstein (USCIB)

4:30 – 5:30  Briefing and Strategy Session on US National Action Plan on
Responsible Business Conduct – Laura Chapman Rubbo (The Walt Disney Company) & Tam Nguyen (Bechtel)

• International Corporate Accountability Roundtable Key Recommendations

• New York Consultation on the U.S. National Action Plan Breakout Session Summaries

• Washington DC Consultation on the U.S. National Action Plan Agenda