(06.12.2022)

A globalized economy needs global rules for companies. The ongoing negotiations on an EU supply chain law are based on this insight. Supporters of a comprehensive supply chain law can draw important lessons from the initial implementation of the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation in 2021. The regulation for the first time introduces binding human rights due diligence requirements for companies in the EU. What can we learn from it and what is actually changing on the ground?

A comment by Karin Küblböck and Hannes Grohs

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(04.10.2022)

The European Investment Bank has launched EIB Global, a new branch to spearhead development investments in the Global South. Yet the bank has a terrible track record of supporting projects which spark human rights violations while providing only negligible benefits to local communities. EIB Global must eradicate these abuses and put people above investor profits.

A comment by Frank Vanaerschot

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(24.08.2022)

Severe drought in the Horn of Africa; Heat waves and drought in Europe; floods in South Korea, India and Australia, flash floods in Colombia, Senegal, and the US; record tornadoes/cyclones in the US and Mozambique … and the list goes on. As humanitarians, we see the consequences of the climate crisis in our daily work. The Climate and Environment Charter for Humanitarian Organizations aims to guide and galvanize our collective efforts to address this crisis

A comment by Amir Khouzam & Nishanie Jayamaha

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(20.04.2022)

Recently, the OECD’s Development Assistance Committee (DAC) published the annual statistics summarizing how much foreign aid its 30 member states, including Austria, provided in 2021, loudly trumpeting the all-time high levels of ODA achieved

A comment by Ranil Dissanayake¹

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(23.02.2022)

Changing attitudes towards taxation can only happen if citizens are engaged in shaping tax policy making and if tax systems are seen to be equitable, including appropriate taxation of large corporations as well as linking tax revenues to development outcomes like improved infrastructure, healthcare and education

A comment by Luckystar Miyandazi & Orria Goni¹

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Die COVID-19-Pandemie hat verdeutlicht, wie fragil globale Wertschöpfungsketten sind. In allen Weltregionen kam es zu Lieferengpässen, auch im Fall dringend notwendiger, kritischer Güter wie medizinischer Schutzausrüstung. Die in der EU entbrannte Debatte, durch welche Maßnahmen die Versorgung gesichert werden könnte, hat Implikationen für den Globalen Süden. Politikkohärenz auf Seiten der EU und Süd-Süd-Kooperation sind mögliche Antworten auf strukturelle Herausforderungen

Ein Kommentar von Jan Grumiller & Hannes Grohs¹

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(07.12.2021)

Die Notwendigkeit für ein faires und transparentes internationales Staateninsolvenzverfahren zeigt sich in der aktuellen Krise deutlicher denn je. Bereits 2021 – inmitten der pandemiebedingten Wirtschaftskrise – haben 85 Länder des Globalen Südens ihre öffentlichen Ausgaben (u.a. im Bildungsbereich) gekürzt, um stattdessen ihren Schuldendienst bedienen zu können. Die von den G20 ergriffenen Entschuldungsmaßnahmen haben bislang keine substantiellen Schuldenerlasse ermöglicht

Ein Kommentar von Malina Stutz

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(15.11.2021)

There is a growing trend in development finance that you may not have heard about: lending through intermediaries. What are the risks and opportunities?

A comment by Kate Geary

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(19.10.2021)

With the 7th round of negotiations on the UN binding treaty on its way, we look at the 3rd draft and what it says about the treaty process. With little change from the last version of the treaty, there is no excuse for states not to dig in and start negotiating seriously. Yet shamefully the EU still won’t be at the table. This next year will be decisive for the EU: with a regional law on corporate accountability on its way, they need to step up and get ready to finally engage in negotiations. A comment by Jill McArdle

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(16.12.2020)

The COVID-19 crisis is reversing progress on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). While the virus has impacted everyone, developing countries are the worst affected. The 2030 Agenda is about achieving 17 transformational goals to reduce poverty and inequality globally, but the EUs response to the pandemic seems not to have been designed with this in mind. It is key that COVID-19 recovery plans are aligned with the SDGs. But what are the first steps the EU should take to put the 2030 Agenda at the centre of efforts to recover from the COVID-19 crisis?

A comment by Alexandra Rosen

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