If the EU fails to pass the previously agreed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) it would represent a major setback for the just transition to a lower carbon economy and greater corporate sustainability. After years of tripartite negotiations between the EU Parliament, the Commission and the Council, the CS3D is going through troubled times…
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On 14 December 2023, the European Parliament, Council (member states) and Commission reached a provisional deal on the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D). The final draft will be published shortly and is expected to be adopted ahead of the European parliamentary elections in the Summer. Member States will then have two years to transpose the Directive into national…
With the increase in emerging human rights legislation, notably the proposed EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD) Directive which is likely to impact UK businesses with operations in Europe, the new Norwegian Transparency Act, the German Supply Chain Act and others, GoodCorporations’s first Business Ethics Debate of 2023 explored how companies should respond to emerging…
Bennett Freeman Associate Fellow of Chatham House shares his opening remarks at GoodCorporation’s Business Ethics Debate on ‘The changing pace of human rights legislation and what this means for business‘. It is an honor to be with Baroness Young of Hornsey, one of the great champions of social and racial justice in modern Britain as…
The start of 2023 has been overshadowed by significant economic fallout from the Ukraine war and the continuing impacts on supply-chains from China’s slow opening up, political concerns about China, the lingering impacts of Covid and, for us in the UK, Brexit. For ethics and compliance officers there is so much going on that it…
As human rights legislation continues to evolve, businesses are under increasing pressure to identify and address any human rights impacts. As part of that process, businesses are being mandated to undertake human rights due diligence in an ever-growing number of jurisdictions. The pressure for human rights due diligence Human rights due diligence refers to the…
It is widely accepted that organisations have a duty to manage both their human rights and climate change impacts. This was reinforced when the United Nations Human Rights Council acknowledged the human right to a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment. To explore these issues in more detail, GoodCorporation consultant Lucie Bonpain, spoke to Anna…
The Norwegian Transparency Act which came into force last month requires certain companies to carry human rights due diligence to ensure they operate responsibly. This legislation is demanding, as it applies to Norwegian or foreign companies with operations in Norway that meet at least two of the following three criteria: They will also be required…
In the latest edition of the French publication Compliances, GoodCorporation’s Caroline Le Mestre and Felix Feunteun discuss the proposed sustainability  due diligence directive, exploring the legislation that preceded the directive and what its introduction will mean for businesses and their human rights obligations. Primary aims of the EU Sustainability Due Diligence Directive The aim of…
The second part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report[1], published last week, focuses on the consequences of climate change. In particular, its impact on ecosystems and human societies, as well as on the means used so far to adapt to these changes. The first part of the report, published in August…
