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How to make corporations effectively respect the environment and climate

    The European Union urgently needs to enshrine obligations for corporations to respect the environment and the climate in its law making. The forthcoming EU legislation on sustainable corporate governance will include a legal obligation to conduct due diligence – a good start but not a silver bullet to prevent businesses from causing environmental …

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‘Green mining’ is a myth

The case for cutting EU resource consumption This report, published jointly with the European Environmental Bureau, exposes the myth of so-called ‘green mining’. It shows that the EU is already extracting and consuming a dangerous proportion of the world’s limited resources. And the European Commission’s plans for a European Green Deal will lead to a …

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EU Trade Commissioner: Stop EU-Mercosur

Amid record-breaking deforestation, rampant fires and increased attacks against indigenous people in Brazil, the European commission is still pushing for the ratification of the EU-Mercosur trade deal. Recent reports have shown that deforestation rates are even higher than previous year. The commission is trying to save the deal by fixing it with environmental protocols, but …

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How business lobbies against liability for human rights and environmental abuses

Corporate lobbyists are fighting a proposed EU law that seeks to hold companies accountable for human rights abuses and environmental destruction. While some employ outright hostility and are clear that they don’t want the law in the first place, more insidious are those companies that while appearing cooperative, seek to fatally weaken the rules. Friends …

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Driving destructive mining

We’ve joined 180+ communities, organisations and academics to call on on the EU to abandon its plans to expand dirty mining as part of the EU Green Deal. Plans to drastically increase mining in Europe and in the global South are bad news for the climate, ecosystems and human rights around the world. Whatever the …

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