📢 Today in @ftm.eu: the EU Public Prosecutor’s Office reviewed the accusations against EU-funded NGOs. Verdict: no grounds for a criminal investigation. Turns out a campaign built on ideology doesn't hold up when someone actually checks the facts. www.ftm.eu/newsletters/...

Tesla puts Singapore back on the Netherlands’ tax radar

Follow the Money - Platform for investigative journalism

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Great to partner with the @eccjorg.bsky.social to explore how the EU’s UTP Directive and CSDDD can work together to tackle unfair purchasing practices, strengthen due diligence and build more resilient supply chains. 📺 Missed the webinar? watch the recording ⤵️ youtu.be/Y1wkxb8EnYQ

WEBINAR | Aligning the Unfair Trading Practices & Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directives

YouTube video by Fair Trade Advocacy Office

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🧐 An oil spill poisons a village's water. Workers trapped in forced labour stitching clothes for export. Who's accountable & can affected people actually reach justice? Save your seat for the 1st UN Business & Human Rights Regional Forum to find out! 👉 events.unglobalcompact.org/regionalBHRF...

Check out Deregulation Watch for the latest update on the Chemicals Omnibus which will roll-back protections against harmful substances in cosmetics. But progressive MEPs, some member states & civil society fought back against the Commission's worst proposals. corporateeurope.org/en/deregulat...

"Instead of an actual plan(...), they’ve issued this desperate plea asking landowners to voluntarily protect nature." 🙅Decades of voluntary measures have neither stopped the destruction of #biodiversity nor have they prevented the heatwaves suffocating Europe right now. We must stop asking nicely.

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Plan to restore nature in England by 2030 criticised as ‘completely insufficient’

What makes companies change their behavior on sustainability? 🤔 A new @nature.com Communications study tracking 600 EU companies over a decade (2.9M data points) offers telling clues: progress only happens where regulation forces it. Voluntary action has limits. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🚨 What does it take to make supply chains fairer, more accountable and resilient? Join us with @eccjorg.bsky.social on how the EU’s UTP Directive and CSDDD fit together in practice. 📆 Tuesday, 14 July 🕑 14:00–15:00 CEST 🖥️ Online Register: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/24107a...

The EU has gleefully ripped up the progress made over the last decade to reduce climate pollution and to restore nature – so the climate crisis accelerates and people are less protected from the impacts The centre-right and far-right wanted a bonfire of green rules, well it's certainly burning now

Europe heatwave shows need to reject climate denial ‘lies’, says EU green chief

Teresa Ribera blames ‘ideologically driven’ falsehoods, driven by those with vested interests in fossil fuels, for attacks on green policy

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📢 Our latest Corporate Legal Accountability Quarterly Update is live, featuring new lawsuit profiles, case updates, regional legal developments and resources. Read and subscribe ▶️ www.business-humanrights.org/en/from-us/u... In this edition:

⚖️ Last week: a Paris court ordered @totalenergieseneos.bsky.social to act on their #climate impact. 🥵 This week: the US Energy Secretary told sweltering Europeans to stop whining. One of these is on the right side of history. And of basic thermodynamics. 🤔 www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

‘More people die in the winter’: Wright downplays Europe’s deadly heat wave

The U.S. Energy secretary made his comments as the EU warned of life-threatening dangers from record-high temperatures.

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"The company's work is essential to the economy". That's the US Department of Justice's defence of xAI's methane generators, running without permits, in Black and minority communities. And what about people's right to clean air, water and health?

Datacentres are growing target of global climate-related legal cases, report finds

LSE analysis highlights litigation linked to energy sources, water consumption and air pollution

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🌡️Huge climate win in Paris yesterday! A French court ruled @totalenergieseneos.bsky.social has legal #climate obligations under the Duty of Vigilance Law, including its Scope 3 emissions (oil & gas customers burn). The law is catching up to #BigOil. ⚖️🎉 #CSDDD www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

City of Paris achieves partial victory over TotalEnergies in climate risks case

French capital hails ‘landmark decision’ against oil firm relating to disclosure of emissions from oil and gas products

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If there were an award for shameless audacity, it could go to French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies, now using its own web pages to share tips on how to “protect yourself” from the heatwave. Since when do the arsonists claim they are working with the fire brigade?

New data from @milieudefensie.bsky.social & ActionAid Nederland shows Dutch banks poured $11.5B into transition mining linked to human rights & envi abuses. The energy transition won’t be just if we copy/paste the exploitative playbook of the fossil fuel economy. actionaid.nl/wp-content/u...

How does conflict coltan from eastern DRC still reach Apple, Microsoft or Sony despite due diligence rules? Because ‘we asked our suppliers’ is not enough. Companies need to trace all the way to the mine & be held accountable when they don't. @globalwitness.org

Who buys Rwanda’s conflict coltan?

Conflict coltan smuggled from war-torn DRC is finding its way into global markets and popular consumer products, despite due diligence systems

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All eyes on Paris next week for some upcoming duty of vigilance news! The decision in the climate case against TotalEnergies is approaching. The judges could force the company to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions across all its activities to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Notre Affaire à Tous@notreaffaireatous.bsky.social · 2mo ago

⌛ Après une audience décisive, la décision dans le procès climatique contre TotalEnergies approche. ⚖️ Les juges pourraient contraindre l’entreprise à réduire ses émissions sur l’ensemble de ses activités polluantes et à adopter les mesures nécessaires. 👉 Rendez-vous le 25 juin !

We’ve spent years urging platforms to do better. A new Eurobarometer shows it’s not working : 1 in 3 teens report psychological harm from social media. ⚖️ It’s time to stop asking nicely and start holding #BigTech legally accountable. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

Extreme wealth concentrated in the hands of a tiny group isn't simply an easy target - it's actively corrosive to society and deeply damaging to democracy and our basic rights. Trillionaires are not a success story, they are a policy failure.

Is it bad that Elon Musk has a trillion dollars? Yes, and here’s why | Ingrid Robeyns

Just as the ‘poverty line’ determines what’s required for basic living, we need a ‘wealth line’ to show when extreme wealth becomes harmful, says economist and philosopher Ingrid Robeyns

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🤔 15 years ago, the UN endorsed a framework that said: states must protect, companies must respect, victims must have remedy. Simple, unanimous & increasingly ignored by the very institutions meant to implement it. Where has the political will gone? #BizHumanRights www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

Fifteen years on, the UN Guiding Principles on human rights matter more than ever

Fifteen years ago, the United Nations Human Rights Council did something it almost never does: it endorsed a major normative framework unanimously. The U.N. Guiding Principles on Business and Human Ri...

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⚠️ Heads up: the @ec.europa.eu is consulting on #CSDDD implementation guidelines until 24 July 2026. If you work on corporate accountability, #HumanRights or environmental justice: this is the moment to make your voice heard. 👇 www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

EU Commission launches public consultation on CSDDD implementation guidelines - Business and Human Rights Centre

Check out this page via the Business and Human Rights Centre

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💸 €382 million. The price tag of corporate influence over EU law. BDI & BusinessEurope led the charge to gut the #CSDDD & top the lobby league too, along with Big Tech, banking & chemicals. The more a sector stands to be held accountable, the more it spends to avoid it. #Omnibus #CorporateJustice

Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)@corporateeurope.org · 2mo ago

Yesterday we launched our EU Corporate Lobby League 2026 with @lobbycontrol.bsky.social 173 companies & trade associations which declare €1 million+ in EU lobby register: ➡️ Collectively spend €382 million annually on EU lobbying ➡️ That’s 50% more than in 2020 corporateeurope.org/en/2026/06/e...

How was the EU's law on companies' #HumanRights and environmental responsibility gutted so fast? Leaked documents point to industry lobbying... and pressure from Washington. Must-listen podcast episode by @ftm.eu 👇 #CSDDD #EULaw

Follow the Money EU@ftm.eu · 2mo ago

The EU’s flagship corporate sustainability law was meant to hold companies accountable for abuses in their supply chains. Journalist Hans Wetzels obtained leaked documents suggesting efforts to weaken it were driven in part by pressure from Washington.

🌱 Our coalition is growing! We're thrilled to welcome 2 new members: Focus -Association for Sustainable Development & the Estonian Green Movement. 💪 Together, we're stronger in our fight for environmental & corporate justice. 🔗 focus.si/english/ 🔗 roheline.ee #BizHumanRights @foeeurope.bsky.social

🚨Omnibus I Political agreement Early this morning, EU institutions reached a political agreement that marks a turning point: 👉 The first rollback of an adopted due diligence law in history 👉 The first major file pushed through via an EPP–far right alliance www.linkedin.com/posts/europe...

The EU story defining the term corporate capture

Bart Grugeon Plana@bartgp.bsky.social · 8mo ago

De machtsgreep van de vervuilende industrie. Samen met uiterst rechts ondergraaft EVP het Europese milieu- en klimaatbeleid. apache.be/2025/12/08/s... #CSDDD #deregulation Research of @journalismfund.bsky.social @somoamsterdam.bsky.social @eccjorg.bsky.social @corporateeurope.org

Dé­jà-vu? The CSDDD trilogue agreement is out, and it feels like December 2023 again. This was the last time that this news broke. Only that this time, it's the culmination of a massive deregulation campaign, backed by the far-right, to gut this very law before it even started applying.

Wer bringt eigentlich die Pakete, wenn 🦌 Ferien hat? Arbeiter*innen aus der ganzen Welt, die auf Containerschiffen und in LKWs ausgebeutet werden! Ein Beispiel aus 🇩🇪 zeigt: Das #LkSG kann Abhilfe schaffen. ➡️Fallbeispiel 10: Massive Ausbeutung im TRANSPORT lieferkettengesetz.de/fallbeispiel...

Vorfahrt für Menschenrechte: Über den Arbeitskampf im Transportsektor - Initiative Lieferkettengesetz

Ausstehende Löhne und Sozialleistungen, überlange Arbeitszeiten, Missachtung der geltenden Rechtslage, schlechte Hygienebedingungen, Vortäuschung falscher Tatsachen im Anwerbeprozess bis hin zu Anzeic...

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Aus dem EU-Lieferkettengesetz wurden auf Druck der Industrie die Klimapläne u.a. Kernelemente gestrichen. Geht die EU vor der Fossilindustrie in die Knie? Die Bundesregierung muss jetzt für Menschenrechte + Umwelt einstehen. Mein @fr-zeitung.bsky.social Artikel : www.fr.de/wirtschaft/a...

Die Politik muss sich für Menschenrechte und Umwelt starkmachen

Das EU-Lieferkettengesetz wurde auf Druck der Industrie entschärft. Nun entscheidet Deutschland über die Zukunft des Gesetzes.

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Exposed🚨 1️⃣1️⃣ multinational companies have been working together closely behind the scenes to get the #CSDDD either scrapped or massively diluted Key investigation from our member @somoamsterdam.bsky.social

SOMO - Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations @somoamsterdam.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨Exposed: how a secretive alliance of US companies is working to tear down the CSDDD. They: - Aimed to get “the most extreme position” in the European Parliament - Worked to mobilise pressure from non-EU countries - Paid for a think tank report Full analysis: www.somo.nl/the-secretiv...

‼️La Defensora del Pueblo de la UE acaba de dar la razón a @eccjorg.bsky.social ‼️ 👉 Ha concluido que la @ec.europa.eu incurrió en mala administración al preparar el #OmnibusI y la simplificación de la PAC 2024 para rebajar protecciones ambientales. 🔍 Nota de prensa 👇👇👇

European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ)@eccjorg.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🚨 The EU Ombudswoman confirms it: the Commission committed maladministration on #Omnibus I. Rushed, opaque, corporate-driven lawmaking is not acceptable. With more Omnibus packages coming, the message is clear: the EU cannot dismantle rights behind closed doors corporatejustice.org/news/joint-p...