50 años de las Directrices de la OCDE: contribuciones, limitaciones y lo que se necesita a continuación
Recomendaciones para la OCDE y los gobiernos miembros sobre la futura implementación de las Directrices
Our work on the environment
OECD Watch works to strengthen corporate accountability for environmental and human rights impacts through our work on environmental due diligence, climate change, biodiversity, just transition and remedy.
Nearly half of all community-led NCP complaints are fighting climate harm. We provide strategic advice and track results to support wider change.
We advocate for standards for companies to prevent environmental harm rather than just remediate after the fact, to use science-based approaches and meaningful engagement, and to address the human rights impacts connected to environmental damage.
We encourage laws and policies that holistically address corporation’s human rights, environmental, and climate harms all at once. We support a transition to a sustainable economy that reduces environmental harm while protecting the rights and livelihoods of people affected by business activities.
Lo que dicen las Directrices de la OCDE
The OECD Guidelines recognise a wide range of environmental impacts, including climate change, biodiversity loss, degradation of land and marine and freshwater ecosystems, deforestation, air, water and soil pollution, and poor management of waste and hazardous substances. Companies should:
- Have an environmental management and due diligence plan to identify, prevent and address environmental impacts from their operations, products and services.
- Identify and assess actual and potential environmental impacts and, where significant impacts may occur, carry out appropriate environmental impact assessments.
- Set science-based targets and strategies to prevent, reduce and address environmental impacts, and regularly assess whether these measures are effective.
- Meaningfully engage with people affected by environmental impacts, including by providing communities and workers with timely and accurate information.
- Prevent and reduce environmental harm and use the best available technologies and practices to continually improve environmental performance.
- Remediate environmental and related human rights harms, or use their influence to encourage remedy, according to their responsibility for the harm.
- Work towards more sustainable and circular products, processes and business models.
Environmental protection under the Guidelines is closely connected to human rights. Environmental harm can affect people’s rights to health, food, water, land, housing, livelihoods and life, making effective prevention, participation and remedy essential.
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Recursos relacionados
Quejas relacionadas con el NCP
See complaints in which environmental issues have been raised by civil society.
Revisión de las quejas relacionadas
Cómo utilizar las Guías
Los Lineamientos de la OCDE proporcionan a la sociedad civil un marco para involucrar a las empresas, los gobiernos y otros encargados de la toma de decisiones en la conducta empresarial responsable. Puede utilizar los Lineamientos para:
Ayudar a las comunidades y a otras personas afectadas a comprender los estándares que se esperan de las empresas y los derechos y protecciones que pueden exigir.
Utilice las Guías para hablar con las empresas sobre sus impactos y exija que impidan, aborden y solucionen los daños.
Utilice las Guías para promover leyes, políticas y prácticas corporativas sólidas que protejan a las personas y al planeta y obliguen a las empresas a asumir su responsabilidad.
Cuando una empresa no cumple con los estándares establecidos en las Directrices, puede presentar una queja ante un NCP y solicitar responsabilidades y medidas correctivas.
Connected issues
Climate
How companies should reduce emissions, strengthen climate action and address the impacts of the transition on people and communities.
Derechos humanos
How companies should respect human rights, prevent harm and provide or contribute to remedy when harms occur.
Solo transición
How businesses should support a transition to sustainable economies that protect people, workers and communities.
Noticias y publicaciones relacionadas
Guía para la sociedad civil sobre cómo aprovechar la orientación de la OCDE sobre una transición justa
Utilización estratégica del documento de la OCDE “Conducta empresarial responsable para una transición justa: Protegiendo a los trabajadores, las comunidades y los consumidores en la transición hacia la baja emisión de carbono”
Breve guía sobre las Directrices para la sociedad civil
Entender y utilizar las Directrices de la OCDE para las Empresas Multinacionales sobre Conducta Empresarial Responsable
Brazil’s OECD Accession: Environmental recommendations
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