Negative Capability: Sustaining our discomfort towards a collectively responsible society
By Tali Padan ◦ 3 min read ◦ In my PhD studies, I work with a different type of sustainability. Not the sustainability of carbon footprints...
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Dec 13, 2021
Negative Capability: Sustaining our discomfort towards a collectively responsible society
By Tali Padan ◦ 3 min read ◦ In my PhD studies, I work with a different type of sustainability. Not the sustainability of carbon footprints...
Dec 10, 2021
To stay or to go: Corporate complicity in human rights abuses after the coup d’état in Myanmar
By Verena Girschik & Htwe Htwe Thein ◦ 2 min read ◦ Foreign investors in Myanmar have come under increasingly intense pressure to cut ties...
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Dec 2, 2021
“A Little Less Unsustainable Is Not the Same as Sustainable” – Why Including Fossil Gas and Nuclear Power Will Harm the EU Taxonomy
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 3 min read ◦ The EU Taxonomy reflects a classification system that assesses whether certain economic activities are environmentally sustainable. Without...
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Dec 1, 2021
Moving towards mandatory CSR – EU’s mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence proposal
By Johanna Jarvela ◦ 2 min read ◦ Last March European parliament gave a proposal to create mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence directive. The aim is to prevent...
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To stay or to go: Corporate complicity in human rights abuses after the coup d’état in Myanmar
By Verena Girschik & Htwe Htwe Thein ◦ 2 min read ◦ Foreign investors in Myanmar have come under increasingly intense pressure to cut ties...
“A Little Less Unsustainable Is Not the Same as Sustainable” – Why Including Fossil Gas and Nuclear Power Will Harm the EU Taxonomy
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 3 min read ◦ The EU Taxonomy reflects a classification system that assesses whether certain economic activities are environmentally sustainable. Without...
Moving towards mandatory CSR – EU’s mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence proposal
By Johanna Jarvela ◦ 2 min read ◦ Last March European parliament gave a proposal to create mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence directive. The aim is to prevent...
Sustainable brands on Black Friday: What do consumers perceive as authentic?
By Nina Böntgen, Sara Derse and Meike Janssen ◦ 4 min read ◦ The fashion industry has repeatedly come under fire for its negative effects...
Climate Change and Magical Thinking
By Steen Vallentin ◦ 7 min read ◦ COP26, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference, has just ended. It was supposed to be ‘the next...
Why we should not call for experts instead of experiments
By Jan Michael Bauer ◦ 3 min read ◦ The recent elections in Germany turned out as the historic loss for conservatives that pollsters have...
How the EU Taxonomy Impacts Businesses Beyond Europe
By Andreas Rasche ◦ 4 min read ◦ In 2020, the EU launched its classification system for environmentally sustainable economic activities, the so-called “EU Taxonomy Regulation”...