Katalyst was pleased to contribute policy analysis & data insights to this new Cornell ILR School report on the need for climate adaptation to protect garment workers, companies & economies.

Lots of exciting ideas this week. KI's Anne Lally participated in yesterday's ETUI - European Trade Union Institute #Tranformativeideas conference, looking at ways to ensure a Just Transition.

Meanwhile Martin Curley is joining the 'Transforming Ownership in Times of Overlapping Crises' conference by Utrecht University and UvA Amsterdam where lots of innovative ideas are being discussed.

Two themes from yesterday's workshop that should inform the final #CSDDD: 1. Justice is only possible if people have realistic ways to access its systems; and 2. Businesses alone cannot be allowed to define effective due diligence. European Coalition for Corporate Justice Friends of the Earth Europe🌍 Frank Bold

KI's Martin Curley was a guest lecturer this week at Cornell ILR School. Joined Prof. Sarosh Kuruvilla's class on labour practices in global supply chains & had a great discussion with students on the role of NGOs in trying to secure responsible business conduct.

Katalyst spoke this week with Professor Elena Sychenko’s ESG Compliance class at Università di Bologna, discussing human rights and climate risks in supply chains, and steps that can be taken to address them.

Today, EU Council, European Parliament & European Commission will discuss #CSDDD in #trilogue Will they protect the rights of #workers in the #garmentsector or will they weaken the text? Here are 5 things garment sector workers need in CSDDD: 🧵 (1/6)

We joined Cornell ILR School Global Labor Institute for a series of presentations on 'Higher Ground' - a report KI contributed to about heat and flood risks to garment workers. One of the highlights was a roundtable at the European Parliament, with Saskia Bricmont and Clean Clothes Campaign.

Katalyst participated in the OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives Forum on the garment sector this week. A good reminder that definitions of 'progress' towards a fair and sustainable industry vary enormously depending on who you're talking to.

Een Europese wet verantwoord ondernemen is binnen handbereik. Maar Macron, Meloni en de Duitse liberalen hebben hun oren laten hangen naar de fabeltjes van de bedrijfslobby. Het kan nog, maar de tijd dringt voor lidstaten om het akkoord alsnog goed te keuren #IMVO#WetgevingNu

The week explores how due diligence and other value chain regulations are put to practice through technology (eg for risk assessment, chain mapping, data collection, stakeholder consultation, ...). What do these tools offer, in what framework do they operate & what are limits?

w/ presentations & workshops from tech & business practice by Sedex, Ulula, IntegrityNext, Prewave, Satelligence, &Wider, @Loening @TaylorWessingDE, Markus Löning (and more tbc!) Keynotes by Prof Larry Catá Backer (Larry Backer) & Prof Galit Sarfaty (U of T Law)

Policy perspectives from OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives, European Commission & BAFA Bund (tbc) Critical discussions with Anna Beckers, Martin Curley (Katalyst Initiative), Michelle Westermann-Behaylo (and others tbc!), Scholarships available for PhD researchers and MA students

Looking forward participating in this really interesting event. Registration is now open.

#Breaking EU Member States formally adopted the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive #CSDDD this morning – the final sign-off of this landmark corporate accountability law - after almost a decade of advocacy. Member states have 2 years to transpose into national laws

University of Amsterdam's Responsible Business Conduct Lab, led by Luc Fransen AISSR (no longer active on X), launched at trade union museum De Burcht. Katalyst is a partner & advises on the lab's innovative research on value chain governance. rbc-lab.org

One of the fundamental resources for human rights due diligence.

New paper with our friends from the UvA Responsible Business Conduct Lab!

Katalyst organised the Future of Global Value Chain Governance Conference - no time to lose in creating the next generation of value chain governance for a #JustTransition. katalystinitiative.org/future-of-gvc-…

It is critical to make industries more sustainable, but we also need to ensure a Just Transition for workers. Our new 'Global Garment Workers Count' paper katalystinitiative.org/working-paper-… documents the size & shape of the global garment workforce - essential for Just Transition planning.