As the European Union considers the new draft Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive and associated sustainability standards, striking new evidence shows that the proposed legislation saves rather than costs money for business. A new article written by Richard Howitt, Strategic advisor on corporate sustainability, Senior Advisor at Frank Bold, formerly MEP and CEO of the [...]
The ECG movement started in 2010 with the publication of the first edition of the book "Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie" (Economy for the Common Good) by Christian Felber and the presentation of a first version of the common good balance sheet by a group of Austrian entrepreneurs. More than 2,000 companies, mainly small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), [...]
What should be the purpose of the economy, and the goal of public spending: promoting the wellbeing of people and the planet, or reacting to immediate, avoidable problems? Put this way, the answer seems obvious, yet the prevailing economic model forces governments towards the latter. WEAll, a partner of ECG, has published a new [...]
According to a multi-stakeholder debate last week, which was hosted by ECG, the new EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive shows significant weaknesses. 99,8% of businesses are left out and standards are being developed by a financial body without sufficient input from sustainability stakeholders. The proposed Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) must become a powerful [...]
The Economy for the Common Good (ECG) and OXFAM with the collaboration of Future-Fit Foundation, Frank Bold and the Alliance for Corporate Transparency (ACT) invite you to join a discussion on the most contentious issues in the EU sustainability instruments and initiatives. Date: 29 September, 2021, 12:00-13:30h [Admission: 11:30; Press interviews 13:30-14:00] Venue: Press Club [...]
The architecture company baukult ZT GmbH, based in Vienna (Austria), is reporting under the guidelines of the Economy for the Common Good - for the first time its history. On 72 pages, the team of architects and real estate experts reports on timber construction, socio-economic and ecological aspects of the company and sets the [...]
The Italian chapter for the Economy for the Common Good - or Economia del Bene Comune (EBC) - will kick off their new training course for Common Good consultants. The objective is to provide professionals with the tools and knowledge so they can support companies to generate a positive social and environmental impact, by [...]
Cologne, Germany | The council alliance of the Greens, CDU and Volt wants to popularize the Economy for the Common Good and encourage municipal and commercial companies to draw up a Common Good Balance. The council actors have already picked a city company: The Cologne Baths. Niklas Kienitz, CDU, says from an urban development [...]
The city of Eschlikon, with a total of 4,500 inhabitants, is located about 30 minutes by car south of Lake Constance, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau. Since last summer, the innovative and visionary community presidents and city officials have been working on the balancing process, which will be completed this summer. Thanks to the [...]
Castellón is a Spanish province in the northern part of the Valencian Community and a popular tourist destination. It is also a region, where the Economy for the Common Good (ECG) is spreading and reaching ever more people and businesses. The Valencian ECG Association is advising small and large companies on how to reorient [...]
