The Environmental and Social of ESG and human rights in Supply Chains

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Our Experience to Help You

SupplyESChange, works for Environmental and Social Change in the often 80% or more footprint that is global supply chains, with ESG Investors, Companies, and other actors.

We lead The Online Course on ESG and Human Rights in Supply Chains which you can find out more about here.

Meet your tutor SupplyESChange Founder Kate A Larsen, a University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) featured faculty trainer, and FinanceUnlocked featured Course trainer to banking teams.

Kate has in recent years trained ESG and investment teams in ABN Amro, Alliance Bernstein, Baillie Gifford, Manulife, for Morgan Stanley, PRI (Principles for Responsible Investment), EBRD (European Bank for Reconstruction & Development), Robeco, SRI-Connect, and more, including PE, fund managers, analysts, venture capital, and more.

With SupplyESChange team of Senior Associates around the world, she leads impactful training to help Investors, Companies and more, understand why and how to deepen Environmemental and Social efforts with supply chains for human rights due diligence and impact.

Featured speaking, training, in podcasts, and writing for:

Meet the Team

  • Kate A Larsen

    Founding Director, UK (former China, Hong Kong/Asia).

    Chinese speaking.

    20+ years in Corporate Responsibility, ESG, Responsible Sourcing, Ethical Trade, business human rights due diligence, Including in leadership roles in Burberry, TCP (PLCE), ERM.

    Advisory and Training to leading Investment Firms and Retailers and for The World Bank, University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, etc.

    Inhouse experience in Human Rights Watch on supply chains. Trustee The Rights Practise. A UK Top 100 Corporate Modern Slavery influencer.

  • Motthida Chin

    Senior Associate, USA (Cambodian born).

    Cambodian speaking.

    20+ years in Corporate Responsibility, labour standards, and in leadership roles including in Verite, Columbia, Nordstrom, Nike, and the ILO Better Work (Better Factories Cambodia) programme.

    Expert advisor and trainer on standards and management systems and on working with suppliers, especially Cambodia and south east Asia.

    Leads academic courses on Corporate Social Responsibility, and trainings to suppliers on why and how to continuously improve conditions.

  • Ajay Datt

    Senior Associate, India (former Asia Director).

    Hindi, Bengali, English speaking.

    20+ years in Corporate Responsibility, including as former Regional Director, Social Responsibility The Children's Place, former EY, etc.

    Experience in the middle east on bonded labour and modern slavery risks for south Asian migrant workers, and more.

    An Expert Labor Standards, Safety & Working Conditions Assessor, analyst of Root causes, supplier engager and Trainer and Advisor to factories and manufacturers in his dedication to improve workers lives.

  • Saif Khan

    Senior Associate, Hong Kong (Bangladeshi)

    16+ years in labour standards, especially investigating and advising for remediation of bonded labor, forced labour modern slavery in Malaysia and other countries for leading brands.

    Former Compliance Supervisor, Human Rights Phillips Van Heusen PVH Corp (Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger), working with Bangladeshi suppliers on labor management, health-safety, worker management committees, grievance management channels; former Accord on Fire and Building Safety Bangladesh.

    Expert Lead of teams for field social audits and investigations, supplier development training, and CSR advisory. Fire safety assessment, worker committee establishment, special focus Bangladesh.

  • Chris Alafaa

    Researcher, Nigeria

    Support to SupplyESChange in 2022 and 2023 to research issues of modern slavery and climate change (and links) in international and Asia supply chains.

    Analysis of ESG performance of large corporations and how they fare against the ratings such as MSCI and Sustainalytics.

    Business human rights due diligence research support. Climate change research.

    Bachelor's degree, Marine Biology and Biological Oceanography, University of Lagos.

    Technical support in Software Engineering for climate action projects such as ClimateAction.tech, the Climate Mind project.

  • Lisa Telfer Brunton

    Strategic Consultant & Operations Specialist, Cornwall

    15+ years in global business operations, human relations, and work with social impact organisations.

    With 10+ years focused on international business development. Improving operational efficiency and resilience. Extensive experience in building systems, strategy and logistics, with focus on social enterprise and CSR. CIPD level 7.

    Human-centred, innovative thinker, problem solver.

SupplyESChange help Investors and Business better understand Supply Chains ESG Environmental and Social Realities.

We apply insights from years working in China, Asia and globally.

We regularly guide on risk mapping, investigating and remediating modern slavery, forced labour, and other risks in China, Asia, Italy, the UK, and globally for ESG and human rights due diligence, and social impact.

Our Founder has led projects in Uganda, on Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, Turkey, and the middle east. Kate was a UK Top 100 Modern Slavery corporate influencer 2018 and her MSc Environmental Management was on how to better work with China suppliers to prevent and reduce Scope 3 emissions.

Insight

Kate A Larsen has had a 20 year career spanning global issues across numerous industries.

A Chinese mandarin speaker who lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for 11 years, including in Beijing and Wuhan, and was regularly visiting sites in Japan, Kate has visited and worked with sites and organisations across Asia.

Kate regularly guides on companies and investors to better understand modern slavery, forced labour, and other risks in China, Italy, the UK, and globally for ESG and human rights due diligence. Beyond Asia and Europe, she has also led projects in Uganda, on Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria, Turkey, and the middle east.

Kate was a UK Top 100 Modern Slavery corporate influencer 2018 and her MSc Environmental Management was on preventing Scope 3 emissions reductions in China supply chains.

SupplyESChange apply experience to help you understand increasing Supply Chains Environmental and Social, human rights due diligence expectations, and what Companies, Can, Should, and Do do…

to reduce risk, and improve lives.

Learn About How we Help businesses like You understand ESG of Human Rights and Environmental, in global Supply Chains.

Reduce risk, Cause Environmental and Social Change:


Scope 3 Carbon Emissions reductions,

Waste water pollution reductions,

Decent Work, Living Wage, Social Impacts. SDGs.

If you’re an investor looking at ESG to assess investees, improve ESG engagement and performance:

If you’re a company working on Responsible Sourcing and Sustainable Sourcing, to deliver Supply Chains Human Rights Due Diligence:

Founder Kate on the BBC

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Kate Larsen, Founding Director SupplyESChange spoke on BBC World Service TV 2021 on reports of forced labour of Uyghur and other minorities in some cotton production in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) of PR China.

Kate has seen and interviewed Uyghur people in forced labour in factories in China where Han Chinese workers had freedoms (whilst Uyghurs were locked in dormitories at night and could not leave, etc), as well as migrant workers in bonded labour modern slavery in other countries (Japan, Italy, Malaysia, India, etc).

Kate has applied her China and industry experience to Training Investment Teams looking at ESG and Company executive teams to better understand risk of Forced Labour in global and China supply chains, and the business Human Rights Due Diligence (HRDD) against Modern Slavery and exploitation which new laws (and consumers, and investors looking at ESG) expect Companies to do. 

Kate and SupplyESChange team also consult to companies and organisations on policies, risk mapping, China and other supply chain risk reviews, deep investigative social audit, and how to influence remediation and report in Modern Slavery statements and other corporate reporting (e.g. to CHRB, WBA standards, etc). 

SupplyESChange Founding Director Kate Larsen has trained on ESG and Human Rights in Supply Chain to and for:

Let SupplyESChange dedicated experts Help You…

….shift from confusion about the array of new laws….. to A Clear Roadmap;

from Modern Slavery or exploitation to causing Decent Work and Social Impact;

from lack of visibility to engaging for Environmental Sustainability.

Testimonials.

  • "Kate is without doubt one of the most talented, dedicated and passionate CR/Sustainability practitioners I have had the pleasure to work with."

    “Kate and I built Burberry's approach to Corporate Responsibility from scratch. Kate's input and innovative solutions to Ethical Trade issues was a key aspect of how Burberry were able to assume a leadership position within the sector. Kate is culturally astute. She really understands Corporate Responsibility in the Asian context.”

    Ben Eavis | Senior Consultant | Robertsbridge, Former Head CR Burberry, Sainsburys, VP Pepsi, PVH Inc.

  • "Kate has an extraordinary ability to keep worker needs front-and-center in any project, and a tremendous network through which she builds effective alliances for high-impact."

    Marcus Chung | Former VP Responsible Sourcing | The Children’s Place (Nasdaq: PLCE).

  • "I worked with Kate at Burberry, where she kept our team updated on China and Asia supply chain labour risks, and how these would be prevented. Kate showed a pragmatic understanding of sourcing work. Ethical Trade was not silo’d rather our teams worked together for responsible procurement."

    Chris Kirkham​ | Former QA Director Aritzia | Former Head Quality Mgmt | Burberry​.

We’re grateful to the courageous workers, activists, and dedicated practitioners,

who we’ve heard Voices of in Asia and beyond, who help us help Companies understand where they need to have Impact.

Some of the Organisations SupplyES Founding Director Kate has trained and advised for:

Organisations we promote that business work with for Impact:

How we help

  • Our team of Consultants apply decades of experience and understanding of Environmental and Social (labour standards, modern slavery risks) issues in global Supply Chains.

  • We help Companies and Investors understand for themselves the risks companies face in their global supply chains (which we’ve seen on the ground), and how Companies can meet increasing expectations of business human rights due diligence.

  • Sometimes clients need us to deep-dive into an issue that we know well, or guide them as they start their Ethical Trade, supplier assessments, or technology innovations.

    We apply our expertise in research and guidance projects.