Our approachto human rights

The business of sustainability

Introduction

Our commitment

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Our approach4

Our own operations

5values, a priority for management and our employees

Our work with clients

12and a central tenet of our strategic approach to ESG.

Our engagement with stakeholders& contribution to society

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We are committed to respecting the rights of all those with whom we engage
through our own operations and across our value chain, this including our workwith clients, The SustainAbility Institute by ERM, the ERM Foundation andour engagement with wider stakeholders, in recognition of our individual andcollective responsibility to respect and promote human rights in society.

Communicating openly & transparently

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Looking ahead

18This document provides an overview of ERM’s approachto human rights, which is central to our purpose andPhoto credit: Efren Aviles, Mexico

ERM | INTRODUCTION

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Our commitment

ERM endorses the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the United Nations
Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights, and supports the principles
contained within the International Bill of Human Rights and the International
Labor Organization’s Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work.
As a signatory to the UN Global Compact, we are committed to upholding its
10 principles, two of which specifically focus on the protection of human rights.
Through the UN Global Compact, we are also a signatory to the Women’s
Empowerment Principles.
We strongly support the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development
Goals (SDGs) and understand that respecting human rights is fundamental
to the contribution which companies can make to the delivery of the goals.
We are also committed to workplace equality and ERM is a signatory to
the Race at Work Charter driven by Business in the Community.

Our Human Rights, Modern Slavery and Child Labor Policy outlines ERM’scommitments and actions on these topics, and articulates the responsibilities
for employees and our business partners in this context. Modern slavery isboth a crime and a violation of fundamental human rights. ERM is committed
to the elimination of all forms of modern slavery and to the international effort toabolish child labor. ERM takes a zero-tolerance approach to such activities andseeks to identify and address such risks in our offices, operations, and wider
supply chains.
Respecting human rights set out in our Human Rights, Modern Slavery and Child
Labour Policy and is supported by a wider policy framework, which includes ourBusiness Code of Conduct, health and safety, and supplier policies.
We are committed to open and transparent disclosure across the jurisdictions
within which we operate, including through our annual Modern Slavery Statement
and wider disclosures, which are subsequently detailed in this document.

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Our approach
Material to our business

We respect and promote human rights across our value chain,
which encompasses the following:

Respecting human rights has been embedded in ERM’s material topics from our
first materiality assessment in 2012, focusing on our most salient issues such as
occupational health and safety, training and development, labor management,
environmental protection and how it may impact workers and communities,
and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging. Human rights remains one of
our key material issues and our approach has, and will continue, to evolve
drawing upon our own in-house expertise but also working in partnershipwith stakeholders to build our collective understanding of how best to drive
performance in this context.

• Our operational approach, from our Business Code of Conduct to thetraining our staff undertake to staff, human rights is embedded in ouroperational governance.
• Our people, based in over 40 countries across the globe and who worked
in over 172 countries during FY23, bringing their local and specialist
understanding of human rights to inform our operational approach and that ofclients.
• Clients who span across industries, including energy; chemical andpharmaceutical; finance; technology, media and telecommunications; mining
and metals; manufacturing; and other important industries, which faceevolving human rights issues.
• Commercial partnerships, which augment and increase the positive impact
we can have on human rights performance through our own operations andthrough our work with clients.
• Contractors and suppliers who provide specialized expertise, fromconstruction and heavy equipment operators to local and Indigenous naturaland social scientists.
• Our engagement with stakeholders and contribution to society.
We seek to further the human rights agenda through collaborations withleading organizations including the United Nations, the World BusinessCouncil for Sustainable Development and the Business Commission for
Tackling Inequality, as well as through the work of The SustainAbility Instituteat ERM and ERM Foundation.

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Our value chain

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Our own operations

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ERM’s Executive Committee members are responsible for the strategicand operational leadership and management of the business. The Executive
Committee has accountability for managing the sustainability impacts of theorganization, including human rights. Executive Committee members withaccountability for human rights and other sustainability material topics haverelated performance criteria in their annual goals and targets, and this also
extends to a range of functional and operational leaders.
The performance of our overall sustainability program is included in bonus
considerations for our Global Leader of Sustainability and Risk, who also serves
on ERM’s Executive Committee, ESG Risk and Sustainability Steering Group andthe Board. In addition, the Executive Committee leaders accountable for material
topics, including human rights; diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) andwellbeing; health and safety; risk management; and business conduct and ethics,
have specific targets and bonus considerations.

Governance
ERM’s most senior governance is provided by the ERM Board and Executive
Committee. The Board is the highest authority and ultimately responsible for the
strategic direction, governance and oversight of The ERM International Group
Limited (as parent company of the ERM “Group”) on behalf of its stakeholders.
The ESG Risk and Sustainability Steering Group serves as an advisory group to
the ERM Board and reviews social impact and human rights lessons learned fromits own operations and its work with clients, identifies external factors that might
affect performance and recommends any necessary changes to the business.

Our human rights governance and operational management is led by oursustainability and risk function, working closely with legal, procurement andfinance functions, and cascaded through our business operations and acrossour value chain.
The Sustainability Working Group of ERM’s Executive Committee provides
strategic leadership on sustainability, including human rights, and reports to thefull Executive Committee, then via the Group CEO to ERM’s Board. Working groupmembers include the Global Leader of Sustainability and Risk, our Chief People
Officer, the Global Services’ Director, the Regional CEO for Latin America and the
Caribbean, and the Regional CEO for North America, with facilitation by the Global
Sustainability Director.
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Embedding respect for human rights
Ethical business conduct is essential to the success and sustainability of ERM.
We conduct business with uncompromising honesty and integrity, adhering
to laws, regulations and our written Code of Business Conduct and Ethics,
and expect everyone at ERM to act accordingly. We express this commitment
through our business values, professional standards, employee training and ourinternal systems and practices.

For more on the location of anti-bribery and corruption-related disclosures, see
our UN Global Compact Communication of Progress, which includes detailsof our reporting on Principle 10, Anti-Corruption.

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Our Code sets out clear and unequivocal requirements on adherence tothe highest standards of ethical and legal compliance, this including ourcommitment to combat bribery and corruption. These requirements areembedded across our key systems and programs, and fundamental to ouroperational approach.
Our approach to ethical business conduct includes:• Screenings and risk analysis for clients, locations and opportunities for trade
sanctions, anti-money laundering and human rights.
• Internal policies and procedures on subcontractor management. We continue
to expand and improve subcontractor management in the many jurisdictions
where we operate.
• Participation in building external standards and providing education so thatmomentum not only builds in value chain but beyond, fully aligned with
our purpose of shaping a more sustainable future with the world’s leadingorganizations.

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Identifying human rights risks and impacts
ERM integrates an array of human, operational, financial, geopolitical,
legal and strategic issues into a common approach to identify, assess
and manage risks. Our risk function supports our organization’s ability
to deliver on our goals, anticipate risks, flow risk information to decisionmakers, proactively implement management strategies and improve our
stakeholders’ confidence and trust.

We recognize the importance of reflecting the different priorities and challenges,
which different regions/geographies face, but also the common driver of protecting
and promoting human rights, which unites us and our stakeholders globally.
To execute our vision, deliver on our growth ambitions and meet the needs ofstakeholders, our risk and sustainability programs are tied directly to each other insupport of our business strategy. The top sustainability issues identified throughour materiality assessment, which includes human rights, are considered alongsideenterprise-level risks, which in turn inform our strategy and strategic plans. Strategicrisks, including human rights-related risks are identified and assessed through ourrisk management processes and included in our risk register.
We work in more than 170 countries annually across six continents, including
locations that present challenges due to complex economic, political, socialand geographic conditions. Our risk management systems enable us to provide
world-class services to our clients without compromising the health, safety andintegrity of our people.

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Our approach to identifying salient human rights risks and impacts enables
ERM to assess risks at the local, business unit, regional and companywide
levels. We consider risks associated across our operations and value
chain, including our work with clients, subcontractors, suppliers and thecommunities, in which we operate.

We have introduced a risk-based project screening requirement to help us
identify more systematically the potential adverse human rights impacts of
our work with clients, enabling us to take the appropriate measures to avoid
causing, contributing or being linked to such impacts.
We take care in forming business relationships so that we honor our standardsof business conduct and ethics. We are required by various laws and regulations
to undertake certain due diligence in relation to clients, subcontractors orother third parties, and comply with applicable trade sanctions and anti-money
laundering laws. To do this, ERM conducts a due diligence screening process tocheck our clients, contractors and other business relationships. ERM’s system
for this compliance is integrated within our customer management system.
We consider geopolitical risk within the context of our business strategy andrisk management program, and we consider the implications within our own
operations as well as our work at the sector, client and project levels.
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At the earliest possible time, an assessment of clients and opportunities isrequired to help make the right decision that is aligned with our strategy, purposeand beliefs. Based on an assessment of available information and discussions
with relevant stakeholders and decision-makers, as facilitated by the Regional
Risk Director, a preliminary “go/no go” decision will be made. For opportunities
that receive preliminary approval to advance, commercial and project evaluation
and a project risk review process continues throughout the project.
Once the STARR process is complete, ERM’s operational risk processes provide
a globally consistent approach to managing our project risks that enables us to
identify and mitigate the risks before project commencement or at significant
change-in-scope events.

Enterprise risk management
ERM’s enterprise risk management system is overseen by our Head of Global Risk
and is subject to ongoing review and development. Most recently, the system has
evolved to align more fully with the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of theTreadway Commission (COSO) framework, which addresses control environment,risk assessment, information and communication, monitoring and existing control
activities. This includes the integration of material human rights issues into our risk
management and our strategy.
Opportunities are automatically screened for potential ESG risks, including
human rights, biodiversity and climate impact. Our sustainably transparent
assessment of risk and reward (STARR) process is a first step prior to evaluating
opportunities that have been triggered and all opportunities for new clients.

ERM has in place a Global Project Risk Review Policy to strengthen projectrisk management throughout the life cycle of significant projects. This policy
applies where a project has a material impact on the business, or project risks
are material to the business, or a project failure could have a material impact on
the business. The process involves senior experienced business leaders andtechnical specialists supporting the project team throughout the project.
ERM is also further developing our human rights due diligence as part of our risk
management approach, once projects are operational, to assess whether anyof our own employees, subcontractors or external stakeholders would be at risk
for infringement of their human rights.
If there is any potential for human rights issues, this would be discussed with theclient and other relevant stakeholders. Should the project proceed, mitigation
measures would be implemented with input from relevant human rights experts andsenior leaders and monitored on an ongoing basis. If the human rights concerns
cannot be mitigated, then ERM would not proceed with the project or activity.

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Tracking and monitoring
We continue to learn more about human rights-related risks based on direct
feedback from our delivery teams, and we continue to incorporate this learning
into the corresponding risk tools.
During FY24, we are evaluating options to improve how we track and evaluate
the effectiveness of our responses to actual and potential human rights impacts,
including feedback from internal and external stakeholders. We are committed
to implementing effective monitoring and are continuing to work with clients, oursupply chain and across our operations to develop our monitoring framework.
We are identifying opportunities to better track and monitor human rights
performance across our global operations. In addition to evolving thegovernance of our value chain, we are also committed to monitoring
performance and will engage to understand how best this can be achieved,building upon our processes to-date.

Grievance mechanisms and remedying
adverse impacts
We have established grievance mechanisms in place for employees, suppliers
and subcontractors, clients and the public, and publish information on how
to access our grievance mechanisms through our Human Rights, Modern
Slavery and Child Labor Policy and Modern Slavery Statement on
erm.com
ERM has a 24/7 online or call-in option for any employee who wishes to reportconcerns anonymously. The anonymous reporting option is the ERM Helpline.

The Helpline is a third-party independently administered system that is amultilingual reporting system with over 30 different language options, accessible
to all employees. Additionally, we have internal resources directly available.
Clients can report concerns through ERM’s client feedback program. The
approach uses a global project and client management tool, based on theSalesforce platform, to document, internally publicize and respond to client
feedback. Every project has an identified Account Director/Manager and Partner
in Charge who are directly accountable and fully responsible for ensuring client
feedback is received and actioned.
A range of stakeholders – including Account Directors, Industry Leaders,Service Leaders and Operational Leaders – are engaged in the feedback
approach to share insights, provide support and respond to client needs.
Where warranted, client concerns are elevated within the organization to assess
whether changes are needed within our quality management system, governing
procedures or training requirements.
Members of our account teams, service leaders and technical communities
engage with our clients on how to generate greater impact and how we canmake an even greater contribution to addressing their key business and societal
issues.
Members of the public (individuals and communities) can communicate
concerns or ask questions by emailing sustainability@erm.com.
We have a clear process for the cessation of project activities where concerns
are raised and investigating incompatibility with our policies or Code of
Conduct. Continued development of grievance mechanisms for external
stakeholders will remain a priority focus for FY24.

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Supply chain
We have developed specific global requirements for suppliers andsubcontractors as part of our supply chain process, with explicit
requirements in relation to modern slavery concerns. This is part of ourwider human rights due diligence process.
ERM works with suppliers and subcontractors that demonstrate thefollowing attributes:• Incorporate safe practices in all commercial decisions;• Exhibit a high level of integrity at all times and in all dealings;• Commit to enhancing human rights and wider sustainability performance;• Demonstrate outstanding quality of work; and• Provide cost savings innovation.
ERM’s process for engaging subcontractors includes the use of a third-party
supply-chain risk management solution to pre-screen our subcontractors.
Combined with our own Active Leadership Audit Program audits andsubcontractor qualification assessments, ERM regularly collects and evaluates
data on our use of subcontractors.
Our Supplier Code of Business Conduct and Ethics supplements our supply
chain management system. Specifically, the supplier code consolidates updates
on key international terms such as anti-bribery and corruption, human rights(including prohibitions for all forms of modern slavery) and our health and safetycontractual requirements. Our standard form subcontractor agreements andsupplier-relationship management system requirements were all updated withthe supplier code as part of its implementation. Learn more about ERM’s global
requirements for suppliers and subcontractors.

In line with our commitment to implementing sustainable practices across ourbusiness operations and supply chain, ERM also requests suppliers to adhere
to our Sustainable Procurement Policy and provide ESG-related data. Supplier
ESG performance management will continue to be a focus for development
throughout the coming year.
Our supply chain is required to adhere to our Supplier Code of BusinessConduct and Ethics, our Sustainable Procurement Policy and our Human
Rights, Modern Slavery and Child Labor Policy. Going forward, we will
engage to identify opportunities to further increase awareness and build
capacity in our supply chain, consistent with our own internal operational
approach.
ERM has established internal procedures for vetting third parties to help ensurethat our business partners are not engaged in suspected practices relating tohuman trafficking. This year, we implemented mandatory training for those in a
project or operational managerial capacity, to strengthen their awareness of theissue, and how to take action if they have concerns with any of our business
partner activities.
We review our supplier’s hiring practices, from asking how they recruit
employees to requesting records that verify they follow anti-trafficking efforts.
This can include thorough background checks and efforts to confirm submitted
documents. A high degree of due diligence is conducted when engaging labor
brokers, especially in high-risk jurisdictions.
In accordance with our Sustainable Procurement Policy, we encourage companies
in our supply chain to promote transparency in their own supply chains.
ERM will work with our supply chain to develop effective monitoring processes
to stay alert to forced labor and other human trafficking risks. We commit toperforming regular engagement with businesses along our supply chain to
determine if their practices remain aligned to ERM’s ethical standards and goals.

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Training
We place a significant focus on ethical and responsible decision-making,from the Board to our Partners and all employees. Our training, systems andprocedures provide the guardrails for making ethical decisions in every facetof work at ERM.
The delivery of our human rights approach is the individual and collective
responsibility of all ERM employees, and we promote active awareness of,and response to, any potential human rights issues or violations.
This year, we refreshed our modern slavery and human trafficking training, which
is mandatory for all manager level and above roles. We will extend this to all
employees in the coming year.
On a global basis, ERM also now requires all new employees to undertake
mandatory training on modern slavery and human trafficking, along with a wider
suite of training, examples of which are subsequently outlined. We also require
existing employees to undertake refresher training.
Examples include:• ERM Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (which includes confidential
information and computer security, conflicts of interest, promoting
diversity and inclusion, reporting and nonretaliation, and electronic
communications);• Anti-bribery and corruption;• Human trafficking;• Key health and safety policies and processes;• Data protection and privacy;• Preventing workplace harassment; and• Building an inclusive culture.

We assign additional training to meet ERM’s regulatory, safety and compliancerequirements based on each employee’s role or the location, in which they are
working, or in response to individual client or project need. This can include:• International contracting: money laundering and trade sanctions;• See Own Share: Beyond Hazard Recognition.
In FY23, 96% of new hires completed their training on time and 92%
of existing employees completed the refresher training. We will continue
to focus on ensuring employees complete training in the required timeframes.
All finance and legal personnel are required to complete training in trade
sanctions and anti-money laundering, for both new and existing employees.
Every supervisor is required to complete an annual self-certification oncompliance with our global policies regarding conflict of interest, manager
duty and antibribery and corruption policies. We recognize that our continued
success depends on our ability to maintain a culture of integrity, which is why
we are committed to the highest standards of ethical conduct and comply withboth the letter and spirit of the law everywhere.

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ERM | OUR WORK WITH CLIENTSOur work with clients
Our most significant impact as a company is through our work with clients, whom we support to embed and improve their humanrights policies and practices. Drawing upon leading expertise and knowledge of local contexts across the globe, our social and humanrights consulting services teams help companies in various industry sectors, at the corporate and asset levels, to conduct humanrights due diligence and manage social impacts. We work on a wide range of issues including community participation, impacts andaccess to remedy; indigenous peoples rights; supply-chain due diligence; diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging; and just transition.
We have risk management processes in place to help us identify whether any of our engagements with clients, whether on environment, climate or social impact could
potentially be linked to adverse human rights impacts. Further information on this is set out later in this document. We understand that our clients may be at different
maturity levels embedding human rights in their management systems and are ready to encourage alignment with key international frameworks.

Securing social license & building social capital for clients
Social impact & performance

Human rights• Conduct participatory baseline and impact
assessments for successful permitting andexpansions• Formulate corporate and asset-levelsocial impact strategies, identify goals
and metrics, report and communicate tostakeholders• Update and roll out social performancepolicies and standards followinginternational frameworks• Design and implement social systems andcreate dashboards• Conduct gap assessments against
emergent and established regulations acrossjurisdictions• Conduct salient and detailed human rights
impact and risk assessments, identify
human rights risks related to climate• Update human rights policies, train
leadership and staff• Identify and address supply-chain impacts
and risks• Set up and upgrade grievance mechanisms• Report on human rights and modern
slavery due diligence• Improve human rights rankings and ratings

Stakeholder engagement & trusted
communications• Identify and map stakeholders, including
local communities, public officials,
development partners and NGOs
• Develop and implement meaningful
stakeholder engagement and trusted
communication approaches• Set up and facilitate community advisory
panels• Design websites and digital media
campaigns

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Transformation

Just transition• Set targets and programs on DEIB
• Consult, engage and involve employees• Report on DEIB
• Understand and address energy and digitaltransition risks and opportunities for yourworkforce• Translate the stewardship of social
outcomes into leadership language,
business processes and workforce
behaviors• Accelerate growth of brand and asset value
by elevating social trust and human capitalthrough stories and campaigns• Support the development andimplementation of project and portfoliotransition strategies• Develop and implement stakeholder
engagement to inform transition planning• Develop social investment, training andupskilling programmes to support transitionof employees and wider communities

Cultural heritage & archaeology

Political risk advisory• Generate cultural heritage baseline
mapping• Identify, evaluate and mitigate cultural
resources• Develop plans for historic preservation andunanticipated discovery• Conduct interpretive programming, public
outreach and education• Support compliance reporting• Design research for data recovery andinvestigations• Conduct architectural inventories andassessments• Analyze artifacts• Monitor geopolitical and societal risks andopportunities based on human intelligencegathering• Conduct political and reputational due
diligence, supply chain risk analysis formergers and acquisitions• Support innovative solutions to complex
political and social contexts• Develop best practice government
relations governance structures, tools andprocesses, aligned with social, legal andpermitting needs

The consideration of human rights is also integral
to our climate and wider environmental advisory
services, further detail on which is available atwww.erm.com/service
In addition, ERM has developed proprietary tools to
support clients’ development and improvement of
human rights-related management systems as wellas their performance.
These include:• Human Rights Impact Assessment standard;• Human Rights Country and Industry Risk Tool;
and• Assessment assurance methodology for assets.

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Our engagementwith stakeholders& contribution to society
We are committed to engaging and collaborating with
our stakeholders to promote the human rights agenda,
these including: our employees, clients, investors, lenders,
suppliers and subcontractors, strategic partnerships,
local communities, governments, nongovernmentalorganizations (NGOs), business and industry associations,and academics and other thought leaders.

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Advocacy
ERM actively supports a range of leading organizations working to promote
the human rights agenda including, the Working Group on Modern Slavery
facilitated by the United Kingdom’s chapter of the UN Global Compact, theWorld Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) activities related
to human rights and our Global Services lead for Social Performance, serves as
a commissioner in the Business Commission for Tackling Inequality.

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ERM partners withmultistakeholder organizations
addressing human rights issues

The Campbell Institute is the environmental,
health, safety and sustainability center of excellenceof the US National Safety Council. ERM has beena member of the Campbell Institute since June2017 and actively participates in Campbell Institutecommittees, working groups and meetings.
Capitals Coalition develops, advocates for andadvances the capitals approach, which integrates
measurement and valuation of natural, social,human and produced capital. ERM sits on theAdvisory Board of the Coalition and contributes
to technical and strategic support on topics suchas the living wage and valuation of occupational
health and safety. We have also collaborated on
research and publications including the Social andPhoto credit: ERM

Business Commission to Tackle Inequality(BCTI) is a cross-sector, multistakeholder coalitionof nearly 60 organizations and their leaders
launched in July 2021 with the mission of mobilizing
the private sector to tackle inequality. ERM’s Global
Leader on Social Performance & Human Rights
serves as a Commissioner to BCTI.

Human Capital Protocol – a Primer for Business.
Doug MacNair, Technical Director, serves as aCommissioner on the Value Commission.

ERM also works with numerous wider
organisations dedicated to addressing climate
and nature-related challenges, including:

The World Business Council for Sustainable
Development (WBCSD) is a global, CEO-ledorganization of over 200 leading businesses
working together to accelerate the transition to asustainable world. ERM has been actively involved
in WBCSD since we joined as a founding member
in 1995 through secondments, the involvement of
the SustainAbility Institute by ERM and engagementof our Group CEO and other senior leaders.

The Climate Pledge, Ceres, Circular Electronics
Partnership, Natural Climate Solutions Alliance,
Principles for Responsible Investment, Race to Zero,
The Science Based Targets initiative, Task Force on
Climate-related Financial Disclosures, Taskforce for
Nature-related Financial Disclosures, World BusinessCouncil for Sustainable Development and World
Environment Center (WEC).

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Our work with organizations and clients has helped push for public policythat drives the sustainability agenda, including human rights. We havea long and successful track record of providing advisory services tocompanies and other clients on public policy and advocacy strategies.
For nearly three decades, we have brought together companies andother stakeholders with similar interests to advance common goals insustainability-related policy, such as developing strategies to promote
policies that support human rights.
We will continue to explore further opportunities for human rights
advocacy through our work with clients and partner organizations.

Thought leadership
Beyond our advisory services to clients and collaboration with organizations
such as the Business Commission for Tackling Inequality, ERM contributes tothought leadership on human rights through The SustainAbility Institute by ERM.
The Institute provides a platform for our in-house technical experts and throughcollaborations with clients, to discuss key topics in the human rights andbroader sustainability agenda.

The ERM Foundation
The ERM Foundation is an employee-led foundation that works in partnershipwith smaller nonprofit organizations and social enterprises. It seeks to createa lasting impact at the intersection of biodiversity protection, climate action,
women’s livelihoods and improving access to clean water and sanitation. The
protection and promotion of human rights is at the core of the ERM Foundation,
both through the nature of the work, which is funded and impact generated
but also with respect to the standards and ethical practice required from theorganizations with whom we partner.
Key aspects of the Foundation’s work, which contribute to the promotionof human rights, are the focus areas of “investing in women’s livelihoods inthe low carbon economy” and providing access to menstrual health andhygiene education, through “improving access to clean water and sanitation”.
Partnerships with the organizations such as Africa Development Promise,
Swadhina in India and Palesa Pads in South Africa, to provide education,
training and access to opportunities for females who may otherwise beoverlooked or denied such opportunities and/or face discrimination or
marginalization.
Further information on the work of the ERM Foundation
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Communicating openly & transparently
Over the past year, we have seen increased attention on human rights in the requests for sustainability and ESG-related
information from investors, lenders, clients, acquired companies, business partners, employees and membershiporganizations. These requests are growing in volume and complexity, and increasingly extend beyond our core businessactivities to encompass our value chain.

We are committed to communicating openly and reporting publicly on humanrights. This document forms part of our evolving commitment to transparent andaccessible reporting on our approach and performance, for the benefit of all our
stakeholders. Our reporting includes:• Annual disclosure of our sustainability performance, including human rights,
in our Sustainability Report, which is prepared according to the Global
Reporting Initiative (GRI) Standards. We were among the first companies
to report in accordance with the GRI Standards. Our GRI-driven materiality
assessment process enables us to identify, prioritize and validate humanrights as one of our companywide material topics. We are proud to be a GRI
Community member.

• Our performance in upholding the 10 principles of the UN Global Compact
and the Women’s Empowerment Principles annually via the Communication
on Progress, which is published on the UN Global Compact website.
• Our annual UK Modern Slavery Statement that outlines our activities andperformance during the year. Our statement reflects our commitment tointernational efforts to abolish all forms of modern slavery and sets out themeasures to ensure there is no slavery and human trafficking in our business
operations and supply chain.
• Supporting the SDGs, a supplemental document that provides a snapshotof ERM’s contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs). Human rights are essential to achieving the SDGs.

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Looking ahead
As societal understanding evolves, so to does ourapproach to human rights.
We are committed to ongoing development and in FY24 we are prioritizing thefollowing actions with respect to human rights:

Photo credit: Edward Huang, Taiwan• Evaluating options to improve how we track and evaluate the effectivenessof our responses to actual and potential human rights impacts, including
feedback from internal and external stakeholders.
• Engaging with our supply chain to identify opportunities to further increaseawareness and build capacity in our supply chain, consistent with our own
internal operational approach.
• Publishing our ERM Human Rights Strategy document, which will be madeavailable online.
• Continuing development of grievance mechanisms for external stakeholders.

We will report on our progress on erm.com

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Gonzalo Sanson
Image of local fisherman, taken
during field reconnaissanceof environmental and social
impacts in Peru