Media advisory for webinar on 4 September 2024
Over the past decade, the EU has taken a pioneering role in extending environmental and social standards to companies’ global supply chains. This trend has been widely hailed as a ground-breaking attempt to bring the state back in and to overcome the limitations of voluntary measures.
For instance, the recently adopted Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the EU Deforestation Regulation require companies to assess and address the environmental and human rights impacts caused by their subsidiaries and suppliers.
This shift-in-progress raises important questions about the nature of the EU’s regulatory authority, how compliance can be assessed on the ground, and how these new standards intersect with highly unequal structures of global trade.
Seven leading researchers from international universities, research institutes and initiatives; Daniel Kinderman, John Murray, Tim Bartley, Janina Grabs, Surya Deva, Maria-Therese Gustafsson and Toby Gardner, will present new research on this topic and explore the progress and peril in promoting global sustainability.
For interviews, please contact:
Ylva Rylander, Press Contact for Mistra Geopolitics at Stockholm Environment Institute, [email protected]g, +46 (0) 73 150 3384
