2021 Global Forum on Responsible Business Conduct

The 9th OECD Global Forum on Responsible Business Conduct was held virtually on 15-17 June 2021. 

Today’s volatile and complex global business landscape, shadowed by worsening climate change, provides a renewed urgency to make responsible business conduct (RBC) the new normal for a sustainable future.  

Overcoming the hurdles of a global health pandemic can be a turning point to fix our eyes more concretely on sustainability and resilience through deeper, more effective and more ambitious collaborative action to ignite, lead and advocate sustainable change in the world.

Discussions at the Forum explored what business conduct we need today in order to solve the challenges of tomorrow and whether we have the right standards and tools to make RBC the new normal in an interconnected world. Importantly, the Forum looked at how policymakers, business leaders, activists and citizens can integrate responsible business thinking into policies, action and ownership to bring remedy to people, meet the Sustainable Development Goals and tackle climate change.

Policymakers Roundtable

Held in lead-up to the OECD Forum on Responsible Business Conduct, the Policymakers Roundtable on Regulatory Developments concerning Due Diligence for Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) took place on the 14th of June and convened policymakers from across economies  – in virtual format – to discuss and explore key developments and updates on regulatory developments with respect to due diligence for RBC.

Discussions included dimensions of environmental supply chain due diligence and how RBC can be fostered amongst SMEs. The Roundtable for Policy Makers was open to government officials and representatives from intergovernmental organisations.

Previous events

Global Forums

2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013

Corporate responsibility roundtables  

2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |  | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001