Human rights impact mapping of Hydro

In 2016, the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Hydro entered into a two year Partnership Agreement. As a follow-up to past activities and to support the Partnership, the parties agreed to conduct an enterprise-wide impact mapping on human rights, with a focus on the upstream and downstream value chain of Hydro Business Areas. This report provides a summary of impacts identified as well a plan of action for addressing these impacts.

Hydro has a policy commitment to respect human rights, and the aim of this impact mapping is to support Hydro in the process of identifying, assessing and addressing human rights impacts which the company may be causing, contributing to, or be linked to. The mapping is based on a full-day workshop, one-on-one interviews with Hydro staff and third-party sources.

The impact mapping is organised according to Hydro’s Business Areas and considers all actual and potential impacts of Hydro’s own activities (operated sites), as well as activities taking place in Joint Ventures (defined as the Joint Ventures where Hydro is not the operating party), and in the up- and down-stream value chains – amongst suppliers, contractors and in sales.