This Saar Brief explores how the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive (RED III), while designed to fast-track the green transition, may inadvertently weaken corporate accountability for human rights and environmental impacts. It calls for integrating binding due diligence and human-rights obligations into the EU’s climate framework to ensure that the transition is not only fast, but also fair and sustainable.
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The first contribution to our Symposium analyses the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) as a landmark step in the EU’s move from voluntary corporate responsibility to binding accountability. It traces how this ambitious project, once seen as a breakthrough, is now facing systematic political rollback that threatens to undermine its enforcement mechanisms and weaken its promise of effective corporate justice.
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Prof. Giegerich just published the book „The European Union as Protector and Promotor of Equality“ based on our last year’s symposium. Further information are available
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Today’s video of our advent calendar is Prof. Dr. Dagmar Schiek with her concluding thoughts on the symposium.
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Prof. Dr. Ivana Jelić is giving her concluding thoughts on the symposium in our advent calendar.
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Prof. Dr. Mathias Möschel presents the American Perspective in today’s video of our advent calendar.
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