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Received yesterday — 16 December 2025

Green groups decry EU ‘betrayal’ after vote to reduce oversight of firms

✇The Guardian
By:Ajit Niranjan Europe environment correspondent
16 December 2025 at 11:10

Social and environmental reporting to be required of fewer companies after EPP aligns with far right to achieve goals

Fewer companies operating in Europe will be made to carry out due diligence on the societal harms they cause, in what green groups have called a “betrayal” of communities affected by corporate abuse.

The gutting of the EU’s sustainability reporting and due diligence rules, which was greenlit by MEPs on Tuesday, slashes the number of companies covered by laws to protect human and ecological rights, and removes provisions to harmonise access to justice across member states.

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© Photograph: Peter Andrews/Reuters

© Photograph: Peter Andrews/Reuters

© Photograph: Peter Andrews/Reuters

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Missing at U.N.’s Climate Meeting: American Executives

✇NYT: Technology
By:Ivan Penn and David Gelles
12 November 2025 at 05:02
Many business leaders are skipping the annual United Nations climate summit in Belém, Brazil, or are attending events in other cities.

© Fernando Llano/Associated Press

Officials from around the world are attending the U.N. climate summit in Belém, Brazil, this week, but U.S. government and business leaders are not among them.
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