Category: Community
Unmaking the European Green Deal at what cost?The EU’s potential breach of the sustainability obligations in its free trade agreements and the erosion of global credibility
This post is part of the GNHRE Blog Symposium, The Unmaking of the European Green Deal. Picture https://pxhere.com/en/photo/1209303 CC0 Public Domain By Saide Esra Akdogan When the first von der Leyen Commission unveiled the European Green Deal in December 2019, it was framed and seen as a defining project for the EU. It combined the EU’s…
Unmaking the EU Deforestation Regulation and Its Potential Implications for EU Environmental Governance
VIVIAN KAIFE EZEOFOR This post is part of the GNHRE Blog Symposium, The Unmaking of the European Green Deal. “Deforested” by Peter Blanchard is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Introduction In November 2021, the European Commission proposed what became Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 on deforestation-free products (the EU Deforestation Regulation) as part of the European Green Deal, which aims to…
Water in the EU Green Deal and the Omnibus Era – Wavering between the Making and the Unmaking of Water Protection Law
This post is part of the GNHRE Blog Symposium, The Unmaking of the European Green Deal. Credit Thomas Berg Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen (a, b, c) a Senior researcher, Center for Climate Change, Energy and Environmental Law (CCEEL), University of Eastern Finland. b Associate researcher, Centre for Environment, Economy and Energy, Brussels School of Governance, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.…
The Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the (De-) Regulation of Corporate Conduct
ANNALISA SAVARESI This post is part of the GNHRE Blog Symposium, The Unmaking of the European Green Deal. Plastic_bundles” by JMacPherson is licensed under CC BY 2.0. Human rights and environmental due diligence legislation rests on a simple premise: businesses should identify, prevent, mitigate and account for the adverse impacts of their own operations and those of their…
Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence within the Batteries Regulation under the Omnibus IV and VIII: What Changes?
Marta Paricio Montesinos1,2, Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez1,3,4 1. Brussels School of Governance (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) 2. PhD researcher of the FWO funded project 1145226N Loose Threads in the EU’s Regulation of Mineral Value Chains in CAHRAs: A Case Study on Corporate Heightened Sustainability Due Diligence 3. PI of the ERC project Curiae Virides, Grant agreement 949690 4. Deputy Director Global Network for Human Rights…