On March 16th, the European Parliament's Committee on Legal Affairs (JURI) voted in the European Parliament on its position on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD). The report was adopted by a broad majority and will lead to the beginning of the negotiations with the Council, to find a final agreement over the legal [...]
On behalf of: CDP, Economy for the Common Good, EFAMA, Eurosif, Frank Bold, Finance Watch, Global Witness, Investor Alliance for Human Rights, Publish What You Pay, ShareAction, Transport and Environment, WWF Dear Members of the European Parliament, In the next couple of weeks, various committees in the European Parliament will vote on their proposals [...]
Over 100 millionaires and billionaires have signed a petition that calls for taxing the rich. Amongst them one of the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) members, Gerd Hofielen, representative of the ECG at the European Financial Advisory Board. While the world has gone through an immense amount of suffering in the last two [...]
The European Commission falls short of delivering an ambitious and forward-looking due diligence proposal The European Commission published today the long-awaited Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDD). While being strongly anticipated from various sides, the proposal falls short of the expectations of sustainable businesses, civil society actors and affected communities. As stated in [...]
Today launches the II Edition of the Introduction to New Economies Programme (PINE), an e-learning experience that allows alternatives to the current economic model to converge, created by the prestigious National University of Córdoba in Argentina and endorsed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The Economy for the Common Good (ECG) will be [...]
After last year’s success, the Local Chapter in Italy is now launching the second edition of the national ECG TOUR 2022: Journey into the Common Good Matrix. Discovering the sense of business. This online event consists of a series of webinars focusing on different ECG Matrix themes. These virtual meetings include a short theoretical [...]
Building Better Business (BBB) is an online certification programme that aims at accelerating impact-minded businesses to create both financial and social value in the greater Amsterdam region. It is an initiative developed by Amsterdam Impact, a four-year programme by the City of Amsterdam to support and strengthen the corporate ecosystem, from social enterprises to [...]
At the end of January 2022, the Bavarian Economy for the Common Good (ECG) member companies gathered online as part of the third annual Bavarian “Forum Unternehmen”, to exchange information and to network, but also to honor those companies, that had published a Common Good Balance Sheet during the previous year. The event opened [...]
The European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) announced the integration of a sustainability reporting pillar in its organisational structure as part of their governance reform. On January 2022, EFRAG welcomed the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) to the sustainability reporting pillar as part of the Civil Society Organisations Chapter, along with 12 other [...]
The Chilean Association for the Promotion of the Economy for the Common Good has left its mark on the current Constitutional Convention in Chile, by proposing that the new constitution complements the use of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a performance tool for the national economy. The Chilean ECG Association proposes integrating the [...]
