Anna Triponel, 23 March 2022 The following captures the closing remarks delivered at the conference ‘Turning aspirations into reality - Go Green, Be Ethical and Protect your Company’ co-hosted by Clyde & Co LLP and Queen Mary, University of London in London on 23 March 2022. There’s a line at the beginning of … Continue reading “Yes, you know. Everyone knows, but no one acts.”
4 March 2022 On March 4th, I was invited to present at the UN Office of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR)’s consultation related to its Accountability and Remedy Project (ARP). The session was focused on human rights due diligence regimes and private grievance mechanisms. Here are the remarks from that session. You … Continue reading Creating and implementing a grievance mechanism in Mozambique: lessons learned from Gemfields
3 December 2021 Anna Triponel and Maddie Wolberg The 2021 UN Annual Forum has come to a close. We have debated a wide range of topics, and as the UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights underscores in its recently released roadmap, we have no time to lose in raising the ambition and increasing … Continue reading Climate and human rights at the 2021 UN Annual Forum on Business and Human Rights
Anna Triponel | November 2021 Opening remarks delivered by Anna Triponel for the panel: ‘Circular Economy: prosperity in a world of finite resources’ at The British Library’s Start-up Day 2021 for entrepreneurs and early-stage business owners. Thank you for inviting me to be with you today. I’m just back from Glasgow, and there cannot be … Continue reading The Business of Tomorrow: Are you up for it?
Anna Triponel | September 2021 With thanks to Nora Mardirossian for valuable support and input. Consider the following examples: GE sells portable ultrasound machines in India. The machines have significant positive use in healthcare, including in obstetrics and disease detection, and they also enable access to healthcare in rural areas. At the same time, these … Continue reading Respecting human rights, when the products your company sells can be misused: illustrative examples
Indigenous community representatives cross paths with negotiators in front of the Blue Zone, COP26, Glasgow (2021, Anna Triponel) Anna Triponel | 5 October 2021 Remarks delivered on 5 November as part of COP26 session ‘Business and Government Contributions to a Just Low-Carbon Transition’ at the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Make Climate Action Everyone’s Business … Continue reading Just transition in practice: what it would take for the private sector to move this forward
This note captures comments delivered by Anna Triponel to the Grievance Redress and Accountability Mechanism (GRAM) Partnership, coordinated by the Independent Redress Mechanism (IRM) of the Green Climate Fund (GCF) and organised by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on 8 October 2021. Anna Triponel | 8 October 2021 Thank … Continue reading Practical points on ensuring grievance mechanism legitimacy
Anna Triponel | 24 September 2021 Over the past week, we have mourned John Ruggie’s death, and learned more about his contributions as a political scientist, to the business and human rights world and to the world at large. John has touched millions of lives through his work, and his legacy will live on. As a recently-graduated lawyer, … Continue reading A Tribute to John Ruggie
The following captures remarks made by Anna Triponel at the hearing ‘Environmental Protection as a Prerequisite for Respect for Fundamental Rights’ convened by the European Economic and Social Committee on 17 September 2021. Anna Triponel | 17 September 2021 Thank you for the opportunity today to join such an important, and timely, discussion. My name … Continue reading Enforcing environmental and human rights in the EU: the golden opportunity of the EU Sustainable Corporate Governance Initiative
Anna Triponel | 30 June 2021 Today, I had the pleasure of sharing a panel with Stephanie Venuti (OECD) and Thomas Voland (Clifford Chance), convened by Catie Shavin from the Global Business Initiative on Human Rights (GBI) as part of GBI’s ‘Business, human rights and the climate crisis’ conference. We had a much-needed discussion and a … Continue reading Business, human rights and the climate crisis: what’s expected of business