N 23 FEBRUARY 2022, the European Commission released its ‘PROPOSAL FOR A DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL ON CORPORATE SUSTAINABILITY DUE DILIGENCE. Its overall objective is to ensure that companies active in the internal market contribute to sustainable development …through the identification, prevention and mitigation, bringing to an end and minimization of potential....

“The findings in this book provide a cause for hope, as they show that there are already labour law experiments on local and national levels that have resulted in increased wages and better labour conditions for workers. Based on this, I suggest a bold international campaign to promote a global living wage and regulate work in supply chains.”

The Economist Intelligence Unit published the latest edition of its Global Liveability Index. Vienna is first.

A major concern for the world’s ecosystems is the possibility of collapse, where landscapes and the societies they support change abruptly. Accelerating stress levels, increasing frequencies of extreme events and strengthening intersystem connections suggest that conventional modelling approaches based on incremental changes in a single stress may provide poor estimates of the impact of climate...