When ENVI Committee Press gives its position on the CSDDD this Thursday, we call on 🇸🇪MEPs Jessica Polfjärd @fritzon_h Emma Wiesner Pär Holmgren @MalinBjork_EU to vote in favour of a strong law that obliges companies to do climate due diligence & address their climate impact!

The literal “sands of time” will run out without new thinking -- this new video, part of a wider push towards a #ZeroWaste world, sheds light on the problems associated with sand mining. #MI23

EU companies are on track for a 2.4C decarbonisation pathway. That's 1 degree warmer than the limit to keep our planet habitable 😨 ENVI Committee Press must keep the Paris Agreement alive! Op-ed by ClientEarth Arianne @jm_otten & Uku Lilleväli 👇 euronews.com/green/2023/02/…

"We are human beings. We don’t want to be treated as less of a human." Despite reforms, migrant workers in Qatar are still suffering from abusive employment practices. #qatar #kenya #bizhumanrights #kafala #migration #sdg8 dohanews.co/we-are-still-s…

Essential vote by ENVI Committee Press tomorrow - we need to see effective environmental & climate obligations in Europe's future directive on #CorporateSustainability & #DueDiligence

A study by NYU and the Geneva Center for Business and Human Rights finds that major auto, battery and electronics manufacturers are doing too little to ensure the cobalt they’re using doesn’t involve child labor at Congo’s numerous unsafe mines. trib.al/uY3K2Sk

”We must end the merciless, relentless, senseless war on nature” - The U.N. Secretary-General’s Searing Message for the Fossil-Fuel Industry | The New Yorker newyorker.com/news/daily-com…

Hurra! Idag tog Europaparlamentet ett steg närmare en lag som ska se till att företag tar ansvar för klimat, miljö och mänskliga rättigheter. Vi uppmanar nu svenska EU-parlamentariker att driva på för en skarp lagstiftning inför omröstningen i vår. #CSDDD naturskyddsforeningen.se/artiklar/ny-la…

Oroande nyheter från DRC Diakonia DiakoniaAfrica Joakim Wohlfeil 🇺🇦

Some good news on #csddd!

A third of companies linked to deforestation have no policy to end it. Green Canopy ⁦Swedwatch⁩ theguardian.com/environment/20…

Precedent? ”Investigations are under way to ensure this is the first conflict in which a full reckoning is made of environmental crimes” theguardian.com/world/2023/feb…. Swedwatch

The tragedy in Somalia is that our people are suffering from the impact of an unforgiving climate when we contribute hardly anything to it. Those responsible are not even aware that their actions are making conditions dire for rural nomads in Somalia. theguardian.com/global-develop…

Burma: ”Vi behöver hårdare EU-regler”' AFRY Sverige har fått skarp kritik för sina affärer med militärjuntan i Burma. Nu hoppas hållbarhetsstrateger att affären ska leda till hårdare EU-regler. Sv Burmakommittén Fair Finance Guide Swedwatch Alice Blondel globalbar.se/2023/03/burma-…

Screening of Global Witness documentary 'The Landless' in Sao Paolo last night, featuring Claudelice Silva dos Santos and other representatives of #indigenous communities. Data from Global Witness and partners shows 342 land and #environmentdefenders were killed in Brazil from 2012 to 2021.

On Int Day of Peace, Swedwatch & Peace@COP28 rb.gy/njw1u highlight that: -Climate finance must be conflict sensitive -Heightened human rights due diligence should be conducted in high-risk & conflict-affected areas -A just transition incl business & human rights

“We would like to see more companies leading in establishing zero tolerance policies in terms of attacks on human rights & environmental defenders, which is much needed,” said Yayoi Lagerqvist, Swedwatch's Programme Officer at the dialogue.

Vi har analyserat reformagendan för #biståndet. Kommentarer från ForumCiv Diakonia PMU och Swedwatch om ett flyttat fokus bort från en hållbar global utveckling till svenska intressen, näringsliv och minskad migration. press.concord.se/posts/pressrel…