Fossil fuel companies successfully lobby the European People's Party (EPP) for a pact with the far right to gut laws protecting the climate and human rights
Fossil fuel companies successfully lobby the European People's Party (EPP) for a pact with the far right to gut laws protecting the climate and human rights
The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU’s human rights and climate law - SOMO
Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s CSDDD.
Leaked documents reveal how a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises has worked to tear down the EU’s flagship human rights and climate law, the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). The mostly US-based coalition, which calls itself the Competitiveness Roundtable, has targeted all EU institutions, governments in Europe’s capitals, as well as the Trump administration and other non-EU governments to serve its own interests. With European lawmakers soon moving ahead to completely dilute the CSDDD at the expense of human rights and the climate, this research exposes the fragility of Europe’s democracy.