The underestimated ‘S” in sustainability and ESG
The S in ESG – social sustainability – is one of the essential elements in a sustainable and regenerative world. Sustainability is not only green, yellow is the color for social sustainability. Social sustainability focuses on people’s needs and their interaction. The substantive topics that make up social sustainability have different characteristics depending on the perspective (state, society, companies, …). Shaping social sustainability is a management task and it works and it pays off!
The European Packaging Regulation (PPWR)
The PPWR is a directly effective EU regulation and therefore replaces the previous Packaging Directive, which led to divergent and inhomogeneous implementations in the individual member states. Different labelling requirements for packaging (e.g. in France) as well as non-identical approaches to regulating extended producer responsibility fees led to legal uncertainty, resulting in lower investments in innovative and environmentally friendly packaging and circular models.
Equal Pay – tiresome demands of some feminists?
Equal Pay – who doesn’t immediately think of women? Logically, and partly rightly so. Because in the 9th richest country in Europe and 15th richest country in the world according to Statista, the average gross hourly earnings of women are still 18.4% (EUROSTAT 2022) below those of men – and that puts us at the…
EU Action Plan for the Social Economy
New impetus for non-profit enterprises from Europe: the “EU Action Plan for the Social Economy” Non-profit companies make a major and important contribution in Europe and around the world. In December 2021, the EU Commission focussed on this topic with the “Action Plan for the Social Economy”. The Commissioner for Jobs and Social Rights, Nicolas…
Times of crisis are times of learning
“The central question of the 21st century is the ecological question, after the last 150 years or so have been characterised by the social question,” says Prof. Dr Harald Welzer. He describes times of crisis as times of learning, because our knowledge opens up room for manoeuvre. Find out more in the October 2021 lecture…
“Corporate sustainability” requirement: anchor it now with enterprise architecture!
Numerous international guidelines (ISO 26000, OECD guidelines, GRI requirements, etc.), the SDGs, the EU Green Deal, etc. focus on the sustainable development of the environment, society, politics and the economy. Companies that align themselves with a sustainable, fair economic system have many opportunities. Legislators have also set up legal milestones such as mainly the EU…
IS COVID-19 CHALLENGING THE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOAL 5? EVIDENCE FROM INDIA
The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5 adopted by the United Nations Member States in 2015 as part of its 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development aims to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls. It is one of the 17 goals and comprises of nine out of 169 targets as mentioned in the SDGs.…