Shift’s Analysis of the EU Commission’s Proposal for a Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

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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....

World of Work Summit Let’s bend the arc of history in favour of social justice, says ILO Director-General

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At the World of Work Summit, the ILO’s Director-General, Gilbert F. Houngbo, advocated the need for a new social contract driven by solidarity and fairness.

Living Wages: Now is out (By Dr Shelley Marshall )

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“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.”

Total Energies remains silent on human and territorial rights violations against Kichwa organisations in San Martin over Cordillera Azul carbon credits

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The French oil giant has still not provided a justification to the Kichwa people for how the purchase of more than $84 million dollars’ worth of carbon credits has contributed to the dispossession they have experienced by the imposition of the exclusionary conservation of the Cordillera Azul National Park (PNCAZ) in the San Martin region.

2023’s Global Liveability Index: The top 10

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

ICIMOD: Snow and ice in the Hindu Kush Himalaya are fast disappearing, with grave implications for people and nature.

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CIMOD’s new report – Water, Ice, Society, Ecosystems in the Hindu Kush Himalaya – is the most accurate assessment of changes to the Asia high mountain cryosphere to date. It is also the first time their impacts on water, biodiversity and society have been properly mapped.

Earlier collapse of Anthropocene ecosystems driven by multiple faster and noisier drivers

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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...

Save the Date for the 2024 World Volunteer Conference!

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IAVE is delighted to announce the dates for the 27th World Volunteer Conference! The 2024 conference theme is People Power: Creating a Sustainable Future through Volunteering.

TNI: Rivers of resistance

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This report from the Transnational Institute, intends to capture the current state of play of the global water justice movement in order to strengthen struggles for public and community water systems

Inclusion Canada: PRESS RELEASE: HERALDING CHANGE – PARLIAMENT APPROVES PIONEERING DISABILITY BENEFIT LEGISLATION

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 2023 OTTAWA, ON – Parliament passed Bill C-22, establishing the first-ever Canada Disability Benefit. This historic move paves the way for increased financial security and a more inclusive life for millions of Canadians with disabilities.

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