The debate on mandatory human rights supply chain due diligence is gaining momentum. Legal regulations are discussed extensively both at the international level as well as in Germany. In this debate, one country...
The EU's Trade Agreement with Canada (CETA) is the first EU agreement to include a comprehensive chapter...
The shiny green world of Industry 4.0 ? (Art design: Tilla Balzer)[/caption] Some hope that a digitalization of the production – or Industry 4.0 – will help to increase resource efficiency, thus eventually decreasing resource consumption....
It explores the roots of the investor-state dispute settlement systems - as a mechanism protecting colonial investments from expropriation- and traces its development until today. But the paper also takes a more detailed look at current cases of...
We are glad that the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) has added an additional chapter to our main publication Making Sense of CETA II which was published in 2016. In this chapter, the authors Zoltán Massay-Kosubek and George Thurley explore...
Being one of the biggest export nations, Germany is strongly dependent on raw material imports. Nearly 100 percent of the metallic primary raw materials are imported from abroad and processed by German industry. The German raw material requirement...
Raw materials, including raw materials for energy production, as well as semi-finished products, and components make up two thirds of all EU imports; more than half of these im-ports are transported...
The Federal Republic of Germany depends on the import of metallic, mineral and fossil fuel resources. The extraction of these raw materials takes place...
Joint press statement by S2B, PowerShift, AbL, BUND, Forum Umwelt & Entwicklung European and Canadian NGOs call for an immediate halt of the CETA free trade agreement A new study gives an analysis of the contents of European-Canadian...
Ceta-protest Ottawa/Canada, photo: puppetsetcetera.wordpress.com
The European Commission and Canada had the opportunity, in the final text of the Comprehensive Economic and Trade...
