Challenges and priorities
Companies, including those in the extractive business from mining of ores to oil and gas, have played a major role in creating the environmental challenges we face today, and we are at a more critical point than ever in terms of the need to address these harms. This briefing addresses two main challenges for the Trilogues negotiations in order to allow for effective environmental and climate protection in the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD): 1. Listing environmental conventions does not provide adequate protection, and 2. tackling climate change is a critical part of environmental due diligence.
A lack of regulatory certainty is preventing most projects from moving beyond just the planning stage
EU 2035 reversal won't make carmakers great again
Extending the sales of combustion engines would divert investment from EVs while China races further ahead
Some car execs suggest a return to the combustion engine will restore Europe’s competitiveness. They couldn't be more wrong.