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cjel-12633	Shulman, Skylar	Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence: Combining Human Rights and the Environment	2024	45	.pdf	application/pdf	19383	821	42	In 2011, the United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs) were introduced in an attempt to address the shortcomings of prior voluntary efforts by proclaiming an obligation for corporations to respect human rights and perform human rights due diligence (HRDD).8 In response, there has been a steady increase in legal ef- forts to impose mandatory human rights due diligence (mHRDD) re- quirements on corporations, and major European nations such as tion). See, e.g., CHIARA MACCHI, BUSINESS, HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: THE EVOLVING AGENDA 94 (2022) (“[T]he concept of human rights due diligence under the UNGPs has envi- ronmental and climate change dimensions which must be adequately captured by corporate policies and processes.”); Mikko Rajavuori et al., Mandatory Due Diligence Laws and Climate Change Litigation: Bridging the Corporate Climate Accountability Gap?, 17 REGUL. & GOVERNANCE 944, 946 (2023) (stating that human rights due diligence is a set of distinct corporate respon- sibilities that “entail the creation of processes through which companies themselves manage their potential and actual adverse human rights and environmental impacts.”).	cache/cjel-12633.pdf	txt/cjel-12633.txt