The Green Button at the 2025 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector
A Green Button delegation attended the 2025 OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector and spent three intense days in Paris engaging in insightful discussions, contributed actively to sessions, carved out new and strengthened existing partnerships.
The Green Button played an active role in two sessions on the OECD Forum:
OECD Alignment Assessments
Our Head of Secretariat Christine Moser-Priewich, among Luke Smitham of Kumi Consulting, Emily Norton of the OECD and Annabel Meurs of Fair Wear Foundation, spoke as a panelist on the OECD Alignment Assessments. Here, we shared our insights from the Green Button assessment and emphasized that implementation assessments are a crucial step in measuring and advancing sustainability standards. They bring transparency, enable a sound comparison between initiatives, and provide clear guidance for companies and stakeholders alike. Our key takeaway here: The true value of the OECD Alignment Assessments lies in its implementation assessments that go beyond desktop assessments of what is written on paper to track real-life implementation of meaningful Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence (HREDD).
OECD Monitoring & Evaluation Framework
This session introduced a sectoral approach for measuring and understanding impact. This framework was further enriched through first data points provided by research from Cornell University as well as contributions from Green Button companies.
Our goal remains to work with strong partners to promote sustainable supply chains and HREDD. We hope that some of the sparks from Paris will continue to spread in the coming weeks. For instance, the Green Button alongside ten other organisations released a Joint Statement on the Need for Legal Certainty and Pragmatic Implementation of the EU Sustainability Due Diligence Framework.
Here you can find the links to the recordings of the sessions:
Click here for the session on the OECD Alignment Assessment!
Clicke here for the session on the OECD Monitoring & Evaluation Framework!
