A landmark draft EU law that could prevent and compensate victims for harms like land-grabbing, forced labour or oil spills in businesses' value chains has finally made its way to member states. They have just signed off their preliminary position on the Corporate Sustainability and Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) — which will almost certainly make sure this law is dead on arrival.
There are three key elements to making this corporate sustainability due diligence law work, which EU gove...
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Jill McArdle is corporate accountability campaigner at Friends of the Earth Europe. Giuseppe Cioffo is from the CIDSE Sylvia Obregon of the European Coalition for Corporate Justice. These NGOs are part of the Justice is Everybody’s Business campaign, uniting 100+ organisations across Europe to call for a European corporate accountability law that protects people and plant from corporate harm.