EU Council guts corporate accountability law
Member States weaken human rights protections, fail to push companies to make climate plans, and let the financial sector off the hook
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Press Release | December 01, 2022
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Statement | October 18, 2022 140+ NGOs urge EU institutions to give teeth to anti-deforestation law
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Briefing Document | October 12, 2022 Briefing: how the EU can make finance more sustainable
Politicians must remove loopholes for banks from a new corporate accountability law
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Briefings
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Briefing Document | October 12, 2022 Briefing: how the EU can make finance more sustainable
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Press Releases
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Press Release | December 01, 2022 EU Council guts corporate accountability law
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Press Release | September 13, 2022 “A ray of hope for the world’s forests” – European Parliament back stopping banks financing deforestation
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Press Release | September 13, 2022 Revealed: how gas boiler companies are misleading the public about pipe-dream hydrogen heating
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Press Release | September 06, 2022 Gas companies’ plans for hydrogen heating could double energy bills, pushing €240bn bill for new pipelines on to consumers
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Press Release | July 12, 2022 MEPs back holding banks accountable in stronger EU anti-deforestation law
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Press Release | July 06, 2022 “A sick joke at humanity’s expense” – Global Witness reaction to EU Parliament taxonomy vote
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Press Release | June 28, 2022 EU governments miss chance to strengthen anti-deforestation law, letting banks and the tyre lobby off the hook
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Press Release | June 16, 2022 New investigation reveals rubber is the European import that poses biggest threat to West and Central Africa’s tropical forests, linked to 520km2 of deforestation since 2000
Reports
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Report | September 13, 2022 Burning the public: The hydrogen heating pipe dream
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