Building A Better Planet: Toward a Sustainable Post-COVID-19 Society
By Daniel C. Esty Covid-19 has dominated policy thinking across the world for several months – highlighting our vulnerability to unexpected threats, the fundamental...
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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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Jan 26, 2022
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...
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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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Small, yet important – and still responsible. Reflections on SMEs and social responsibility in times of Covid-19
By Søren Jeppesen One thing seems to be clear by now – that we are all challenged by the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic....
On the Ground: What CSR and sustainability standards fail to address
By Hannah Elliott In the fall of 2019, there was a flurry of news stories in the British media about political events in western...
The problem with CSR: why companies need to listen to their activist employees
By Luda Svystunova and Verena Girschik The current pandemic has exposed blatant social injustices and inequalities around the world, prompting businesses to face their...
Lobbying and the virus – three trends to take note of
By Dieter Zinnbauer Writing about anything in relation to Covid-19 is rather hopeless. Any attempt to describe current developments has a half-time of 30...
The Coronavirus Pandemic – and the Consequentiality of Metaphors
By Dennis Schoeneborn Language is a reef of dead metaphors (Guy Deutscher) We are in the midst of an unfolding crisis that humanity is...
The Political Economy of the Olympics – Misconceptions about Sustainability
By Faith Hatani In the midst of the global coronavirus crisis, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the Japanese government finally decided last month to...
Sustainable Development, Interrupted?
By Steen Vallentin The coronavirus and responses to the pandemic are right now defining human existence inside and outside of organizations. All societal attention...