This roundtable, hosted by Bas Eickhout MEP, and organised by ShareAction and the Business and Human Rights Resource Centre, sought to bring together key stakeholders on the EU agenda to re-orient its financial system towards channelling private capital to meet the ambitions of the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals.

Topics covered included investors’ and company directors’ duties; the role of the Sustainable Development Goals and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights in creating accountable financial actors; the role of retail banks and financial inclusion; and the role of labour rights and human rights due diligence as key considerations of financial regulation.