4 May, 2021
Business bodies speak out against proposed EU stakeholder law
Boards in Europe should not face a legal duty to consider all stakeholders when making decisions, according to a letter from a leading group of business bodies. Led by EuropeanIssuers, a body repre...
2 February, 2021
Why directors should make compliance a strategic exercise
The challenges for boards of directors have never been so great. The trend is unlikely to be reversed in 2021—quite the contrary. Besides the fact that boards of directors have to handle a continuin...
11 December, 2020
It’s time for sustainability to be the big issue in the boardroom
The European Commission’s recent motion for a European Parliament resolution to set out concrete obligations on sustainable governance for companies, and a new framework for defining company directo...
11 September, 2020
Governance week: Rio Tinto, ESG, climate risk, Aussie audit
Fallout for Rio Tinto The equivalent of going nuclear in governance is clearing out a company’s leadership. This week investors managed to detonate a bomb under Rio Tinto when the chief ex...
13 July, 2020
Warning over boardroom composition as businesses adapt to Covid-19
The trials placed on governments, economies and societies by Covid-19 are far from over, but it’s already clear that the pandemic is forcing organisations—and boardrooms—to adapt. One realisatio...
9 March, 2020
EcoDa warns that sustainability standardisation ‘promotes box-ticking’
The European Union is attempting to improve non-financial reporting, but it has already received a warning. Indeed, officials have been told that standardisation of company information and metrics pri...
30 January, 2020
EcoDa: Stakeholder model should not turn boards into “bargaining bodies”
A body representing business directors across Europe has called for a more nuanced viewed of “stakeholder” business models saying boards should not be forced into becoming “bargaining bodies” ...
9 September, 2019
Strategic shifts are needed to ensure due diligence in global supply chains
Over the past years, the global fragmentation of value chains has allowed economies of scale and gains of competitiveness. However, the complexity of the value chains has made it more and more difficu...
17 July, 2019
Human rights due diligence push ‘could turn boards into legal departments’
It’s become a commonplace approach among lawmakers and regulators: if you want to enforce new rules, get big companies to do it for you among their suppliers. And so it is with human rights due dili...
26 May, 2019
