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GAIL Latin America: Regional Challenges and Opportunities in Impact Law
GAIL Latin America provides this overview of key developments and opportunities across the region.
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Lanzamiento Alianza GRI – GAIL LATAM
This event marked the official launch of the partnership between the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and GAIL LATAM, exploring the vital role of legal frameworks in shaping sustainability narratives and discuss the extraterritorial impacts of sustainability regulations on supply chains across Latin America.
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Practical Impact of EU CSRD/CSDDD on Asian CompaniesÂ
This session explored the implications of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) on Asian companies.
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Beyond Supply Chains: new EU rules increase pressure on companies to adopt responsible business practices
This article explores whether solicitors are professionally obligated to work for clients even if they believe their advice will contribute to significant harm, such as environmental damage.
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The $20 million lawyer: signifier of system failure (and potential superhero saviour?)
This article by The Uncertain Solicitor examines the phenomenon of $20 million salaries for top lawyers, critiquing it as a symbol of systemic economic and environmental imbalance. It argues that such high earnings reflect and exacerbate unsustainable practices contributing to climate change and societal inequality.
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Joint public statement on EFRAG’s Exposure Draft for a Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard for non-listed SMEs (VSME ED)
Impact Europe, the Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers, and Euclid Network – the European Social Enterprise Network, endorsed by the signatory organisations, jointly issue this statement to welcome the EFRAG’s Exposure Draft for a Voluntary Sustainability Reporting Standard (VSME ED) and share our key recommendations to further align it with the needs of the impact…