PARTNER-LED SESSION / From challenges to solutions: Exploring collaborative ways for improved consistency, quality and consolidation in due diligence auditing (on-site only)
May 6, 2025 | 7:00 AM - 8:30 AMAUDITORIUM
May 6, 2025 | 7:00 AM - 8:30 AM
AUDITORIUM
Description
AUDITORIUM ROOM
Organised by ERM CSV & TDI Sustainability
This session is led by a partner organisation and may not reflect the views of the OECD. Thousands of due diligence audits for minerals and metals responsible sourcing are conducted globally by different auditors against multiple due diligence frameworks and standards. This session will bring together due diligence auditing companies, upstream suppliers and dowstream customers, and sustainability scheme representatives to explore current practices in due diligence monitoring and auditing, and discuss strategies for overcoming common challenges to build capacity, ensure competence and integrity in due diligence auditing, avoiding tick-box approaches and bottlenecks in the process. Participants will also look at how to promote coherence and collaboration in the era of proliferation of due diligence and ESG standards.
This roundtable will explore the important active role auditing companies can play in increasing transparency and supporting due diligence of companies, and how auditors together with companies along the mineral and metal supply chain can take concrete steps, both individually and collectively, to enhance due diligence and accelerate the transition to more sustainable and trasnparent supply chains.
Join this session to gain unique insights into how auditing companies can play an active role in supporting coherent due diligence of upstream and downstream companies, and shaping assurance programmes of sustainability initiatives for the future of responsible mineral sourcing.
Please note that this session will NOT be livestreamed.
Session available in ENGLISH only.
