How do we find the green elephant in the classroom?
By Lavinia Cristina Iosif-Lazar, Jens Riemer and Caroline A. Pontoppidan “Environmental sustainability to be at the core of EU education and training systems” –...
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Jun 24, 2022
Corporate social responsibility and societal governance
By Jeremy Moon ◦ 3 min read ◦ Russia’s invasion of the Ukraine reminds us that corporate social responsibility (CSR) is both a reflection of the times...
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Jun 23, 2022
Do nudges work in organisations?
By Leonie Decrinis ◦ 3 min read ◦ Introduced by Thaler and Sunstein in 2008, nudges have become popular policy tools to change the behaviour of...
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Apr 20, 2022
EU proposal on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence for human rights and the environment
Advancing responsible business conduct, but failing to consider key functional challenges for remedy By Karin Buhmann ◦ 9 min read ◦ Why is the proposal...
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How Should Arctic Drilling Be Defined? The 3 Key Problems with Formulating Investment Exclusions
By Zuzanna Lewandowska and Dr. Kristjan Jespersen ◦ 7 min read ◦ Oil and gas development in the Arctic has long been a subject of...
Lobbying as if it mattered
By Dieter Zinnbauer ◦ 6 min read ◦ The corporate political activities of a business – let’s call them “lobbying” as a shorthand, although they...
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...
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...
Social impact bonds in the Nordics: insights from ‘Copenhagen Impact Investing Days 2021’
By Mikkel M. Andersen and Ferran Torres ◦ 5 min read ◦ A social impact bond (SIB) is an innovative model for public service delivery...