European Coalition for Corporate Justice (ECCJ)

📢 The #CSDDD is only as strong as the laws EU member states put in place to implement it. A new guide by @eccjorg.bsky.social, Frank Bold & @antislavery.org, to which @hrw.org & others contributed, is out now. Download your copy here ⤵ corporatejustice.org/publications...

🤑 We pay. You pay. Palantir doesn’t. A new report finds that #Palantir is paying little to no corporate tax in Europe while expanding its influence over public services, policing, defence and national security. 💲 Public money in. Almost no tax out. Read the report: www.epsu.org/article/pala...

📢 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/...

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

🧐 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.

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

📢 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...

"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?

🌡️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...

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

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.

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.

🤔 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...

⚠️ 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...

💸 €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

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

🌱 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

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...

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...

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

‼️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 👇👇👇

Last week's vote on Omnibus I dismantled the CSDDD and took the side of rich multinational companies and the far right over at-risk communities, workers and human rights defenders. The EU Ombudswoman has now found that the process was rushed, opaque and corporate-driven. This is unacceptable!

De Europese Ombusman bevestigt vandaag waar het MVO Platform al in februari voor heeft gewaarschuwd: De Europese Commissie heeft door meerdere procedurele tekortkomingen in de totstandkoming van het Omnibus-I-voorstel de eigen regels voor het opstellen van wetgeving overtreden.

BREAKING: The EU watchdog just replied to our complaints. And she stands with us. She has found that the @ec.europa.eu committed maladministration when it prepared its Omnibus I and 2024 CAP proposals to roll back key environmental protections. Here are the findings:⬇️

🚨 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...

Erst paktiert die EVP im EU-Parlament mit Rechtsextremen, nun verabschiedet sich ein Lobbyverband offen von der Brandmauer zur AfD.❗ Hinweis: Wer die Rechten braucht, um die eigene Politik durchzubringen, sollte prüfen, ob der eigene Wertekompass noch stimmt! www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/u...

Indeed a very bad day for #democracy and a good example of short term thinking for EU citizens find human rights and ecology important. Economically the #CSDDD would have brought prosperity to many in the long run... Then why weaken it?? @wouterbeke.bsky.social

Of all posts related to “EPP weakens due diligence rules” https://www.lightnews.app/digests/43506, this post by @eccjorg.bsky.social has been recommended most by relevant scholars.

⚠️ Under misleading claims on #simplification, @eppgroup.bsky.social and the far-right alliance in @europarl.europa.eu dismantled the EU’s sustainability rules, including the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) #omnibus

‼️"When anti-EU parties and corporate lobbies write the rules, accountability dies and Europe’s credibility crumbles. Today’s vote shows how corporate capture and far-right politics now walk hand in hand, and it's the victims, workers and the planet who pay the price"‼️ bsky.app/profile/eccj...

Ein schwarzer Tag für die EU: Die EVP macht mit Rechtsextremen gemeinsame Sache – um das EU-Lieferkettengesetz #CSDDD und den Schutz von #Menschenrechten, #Umwelt und #Klima massiv abzuschwächen! Brandmauer und Kompromissbereitschaft? Fehlanzeige. lieferkettengesetz.de/pressemittei...

🚨 Corporate capture on full display 🚨 “Written for the few, not for people or planet.” The EP’s far-right & conservative alliance adopts the first legislative package OMNIBUS attacking the planet and workers. This is corporate capture in action.

"🚨Pour la 1ère fois, @europarl.europa.eu a adopté un mandat législatif grâce à une alliance entre conservateurs & extrême droite Ce vote marque un tournant dangereux pour la #démocratie #UE Quand les forces anti-UE & les lobbys écrivent les règles la redevabilité meurt" #CrossroadsEU #EUSovereignty

Hoy, el Parlamento Europeo votó, una vez más, contra los derechos humanos, los derechos laborales y la naturaleza. Pulveriza así la Directiva que iba a fiscalizar a las multinacionales por sus abusos haciendo que la ley sea aún más inútil e ineficaz si cabe. #EPlenary #CSDDD #Omnibus 1/6

🗞️on the #CSDDD The Parliament’s position is a slap in the face of affected communities, human rights & our environment. All sacrificed on the altar of ‘simplification’ & ‘competitiveness’ – now openly used as synonyms for deregulation by Ursula VDL www.sustainableviews.com/editors-note...

El Parlamento Europeo ha fijado su posición sobre el paquete #OmnibusI, en alianza entre conservadores y extrema derecha. Nos unimos a @eccjorg.bsky.social y pedimos a la UE renovar la ambición en los próximos pasos: defender a personas, planeta y la democracia frente a la influencia corporativa.

It's a disgrace!

🚨For the first time, @europarl.europa.eu has adopted a legislative mandate thanks to an alliance between conservatives & the far right This vote marks a dangerous turning point for EU democracy. When anti-EU forces & lobbies write the rules, accountability dies corporatejustice.org/news/press-r...