Different pathways to sustainability standard adoption
How local norms may be able to help drive the spread of voluntary programs – the case of the RSPO in Japan. By Hattaya...
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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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I Am What I Pledge – The importance of value alignment and crowdfunder behavior
By Kristian Roed Nielsen Together with my colleague Julia Binder we recently published a paper on the role of values in driving crowdfunding backer...
How the pandemic can reset cities and transform aspects of urban mobility
By Isabel Froes Cities are hard and complex systems. With their defined policies, grids and routes, they offer limited space for experimentation, with a...
How to make food systems more resilient: Try Behavioural Food Policies
By Lucia A. Reisch The vision of healthy and sustainable food systems that facilitate appropriate food choices by individuals is gaining momentum in practice...
Normalizing Sustainability
By John Robinson, University of Toronto We often hear the argument that, given the urgency of climate change and sustainability concerns, significant changes to...
Sustainable Consumer Behavior: Go Big or Go Home?
By Laura Krumm In recent years, news on issues such as climate change, environmental degradation and plastic pollution was almost inescapable. At least in...
Fake news and the future of the truth
By Jan Michael Bauer At least since the last U.S. elections in 2016, the issue of “fake news” is frequently debated in the public...
Consumers fall for food products with nutrition claims – what about you?
By Meike Janssen In a recent study, colleagues from the University of Kassel, Germany and me discovered that consumers fall for food products with...