The CSDD directive aims to combat human rights violations and environmental damage caused by companies. On 15th March 2024, member states approved the final version of the Due Diligence Directive. The final version of the European Due Diligence Directive, largely inspired by the French text, has [...]
The French law on due diligence in brief France's "Due diligence" law helps to make major corporations more accountable and to guarantee the protection of human and environmental rights. What is the French "due diligence" law? In December 2022, TotalEnergies and its oil project in Uganda [...]
The European taxonomy applies to companies from January 2022. It covers more than 142 economic activities and 9 sectors and will radically transform the definition of performance for companies. The taxonomy creates a classification of economic activities and investments according to their sustainability. The European green finance [...]
Companies subject to the NFRD must implement the CSRD as of 2025 for the fiscal year 2024. Companies covered by the CSRD are required to comply with the new European sustainability reporting standards developed for the occasion. [...]
What are the key new European regulations on the environment, sustainable development and CSR in 2024? Discover our overview of the 2024 European CSR regulations and the main tax, reporting, legal and strategic implications for European companies. When it comes to ESG, 2024 will see important "regulatory firsts" for Europe and its [...]
Europe expects a great deal from its agricultural and forestry sector if the Green Deal is to succeed. At EU level, the land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector must produce 310 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent in net removals by 2030. Agriculture and forestry are the [...]
The Paulson Institute puts forward solutions based on the opening of markets, finance and green finance, the heart of its area of influence. What is the Paulson Institute and what is its mission? Created in 2011, the Paulson Institute presents itself as a "think and do tank" dedicated [...]
The European Commission has made sustainable finance one of the priorities of the Capital Markets Union, and a pillar in the drive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. To raise the investment needed to meet the challenges of the Paris Agreement, the European Union adopted its "Sustainable Finance Action Plan" [...]
Esther Duflo, who holds the 'Poverty and Public Policy' chair at the Collège de France and pioneered an empirical approach to the fight against extreme poverty, is co-recipient of the 2019 Nobel Prize in Economics. Who is Esther Duflo? After studying at the ENS and the EHESS, [...]
In this new series, Positivéco puts the spotlight on the influencers to follow. To tackle the monumental Emmanuel Faber, we read his book Ouvrir une voie (‘Paving a Way’), published by Editions Paulsen (in French). Emmanuel Faber testifies about the difficulty of reconciling social and economic [...]
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