Leaked Documents Reveal US Corporate Coalition Lobbying Against EU Human Rights and Climate Law
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Summary
Leaked documents reveal that a secretive alliance of eleven large multinational enterprises, mostly US-based and calling itself the Competitiveness Roundtable, has been working to undermine the EU's Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD). This coalition has targeted EU institutions, European governments, and the Trump administration to weaken human rights and climate regulations. The article exposes corporate lobbying efforts against environmental and human rights legislation.
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The mostly US-based coalition, which calls itself the Competitiveness Roundtable, has targeted all EU institutions, governments in Europe's capitals, as well as the Trump admin
The secretive cabal of US polluters that is rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law
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