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The report alleges that Nuti's separate Paraguayan tannery, Lecom/Parpelli, sources hides from meat giants Minerva Foods and Frigorífico Concepción, which are linked to the deforestation of approximately 111,000 hectares in the Gran Chaco, including lands of the Indigenous Ayoreo Totobiegosode People. Despite LVMH's public zero-deforestation targets, the report finds that Nuti Ivo's Conceria Everest imported hides from Lecom/Parpelli as recently as December 2025, and that Nuti Ivo can only trace 45% of its hides to a specific slaughterhouse.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000221#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"Fabrizio Nuti, who leads the LVMH-owned Nuti Ivo and holds leadership roles in the UNIC and COTANCE industry associations, is actively lobbying to remove leather from the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), describing the law as \"a very serious problem for our industry\".","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000221#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Industry associations UNIC and COTANCE spent a combined €1.5 million on EU lobbying over five years and held at least 16 meetings specifically regarding the EUDR, deforestation, or leather since 2021.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000221#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"LVMH has met with European Commission officials to discuss the \"simplification\" of the EU Green Deal, which NGOs argue is a method of weakening environmental legislation.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000221#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Fabrizio Nuti's Paraguayan tannery, Lecom/Parpelli, is at high risk of sourcing hides from farms responsible for an estimated 111,000 hectares of deforestation in the Gran Chaco between 2021 and 2026.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000221#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Deforestation linked to the supply chains of Minerva and Frigorífico Concepción overlaps with the territory of the Indigenous Ayoreo Totobiegosode People, despite the area receiving protected status from the Inter-American Human Rights Commission in 2016.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000221#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Contrary to claims that Nuti Ivo stopped sourcing from Paraguay in 2024, import data shows its Conceria Everest tannery imported wet blue hides from Lecom/Parpelli in December 2025.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000221#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Nuti Ivo exhibits significant gaps in supply chain traceability, with a Leather Working Group assessment showing it can only trace 45% of its hides to a specific slaughterhouse.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"glowit-000221#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["deforestation","climate finance","indigenous rights","carbon sink"],"geography_discussed":["Italy","Asunción"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["investigative report","supply chain analysis","lobbying monitoring"]},{"id":"reclfin-000670","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/reclfin-000670","title":"Lobbying - Comment le secteur privé s'est accaparé la directive Omnibus","publisher":{"name":"Reclaim Finance","organization":"reclaim-finance"},"document_type":"report","language":"fr","date_published":"2025-10","source_url":"https://reclaimfinance.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/Note-lobbying-Reclaim-Finance.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The report analyzes how the 'Omnibus I' law, presented on February 26, 2025, by Executive Vice-President Stéphane Séjourné, rolls back key environmental and social protections. It details a significant imbalance in the consultation process, where the vast majority of meetings were held with private economic interests while civil society was largely excluded. A specific case study highlights how the French asset management lobby successfully pushed for the removal of a clause that would have required the Commission to study the necessity of regulating financial services under the CSDDD.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000670#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The 'Omnibus I' law, presented on February 26, 2025, is characterized as a deregulation effort that undermines the CSDDD and CSRD, contradicting previous claims by Stéphane Séjourné that his goal was to 'débureaucratiser' without 'déréguler'.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000670#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Proposed changes to the CSDDD include limiting the 'chain of activity' to direct ('tier 1') partners, extending the frequency of company self-assessments from every year to every 5 years, and removing the obligation to implement climate transition plans.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000670#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Proposed changes to the CSRD would reduce the number of affected companies by over 80% by limiting the scope to firms with more than 1,000 employees and 50 million in turnover, while also removing sectoral reporting standards.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000670#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"Analysis of meetings between December 1, 2024, and October 1, 2025, shows that Stéphane Séjourné's interactions were overwhelmingly dominated by private interests: 100 out of 103 meetings (97.08%) were with private actors with economic or financial expectations.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000670#insight-4","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The cabinet of the Executive Vice-President also showed a strong bias toward corporate interests, with 165 out of 190 meetings (87%) conducted with companies or private interest groups, including MEDEF, Société Générale, and BusinessEurope.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000670#insight-5","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The French Association of Asset Management (AFG), representing firms with 4,500 billion euros in assets, explicitly lobbied for the definitive removal of Article 36(1) of the CSDDD, which would have allowed for the regulation of financial services and investment activities.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000670#insight-6","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The 'Omnibus I' proposal is reported to satisfy 70% of the demands made by the MEDEF lobby.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"reclfin-000670#insight-7","date_modified":"2026-10-23"}],"climate_tags":["environmental regulation","climate finance"],"geography_discussed":["France","Romania","People's Republic of China"],"frame_perspective":[],"analysis_type":["policy analysis","lobbying monitoring","governance assessment"]},{"id":"cmw-000776","url":"https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/document/cmw-000776","title":"Never Wasting a Crisis","publisher":{"name":"Carbon Market Watch","organization":"carbon-market-watch"},"document_type":"briefing","language":"en","date_published":"2020-05","source_url":"https://carbonmarketwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Never-wasting-a-crisis-1.pdf","generator":"Climate Insights Directory","generated_fields":["summary","key_insights","climate_tags","geography_discussed","analysis_type"],"summary":{"text":"The document exposes lobbying efforts by large polluters and the aviation industry to undermine climate action during the pandemic. It details attempts by groups like BusinessEurope and national trade associations in France, Germany, and the Netherlands to delay legislation and carbon taxes. It specifically critiques the aviation industry's push for unconditional bailouts and efforts to weaken the CORSIA carbon market baseline. The author argues that the pandemic should be used to accelerate a green recovery rather than return to business-as-usual, recommending the phase-out of free pollution permits and the introduction of fuel taxes.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cmw-000776#summary","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},"key_insights":[{"text":"The industry lobby group BusinessEurope requested the European Commission to delay the implementation of the EU Green Deal and extend 'non-essential' environment and climate-related consultations, citing pandemic-related barriers to public consultations and data collection for the EU Industrial Emissions Directive (IED) and Emissions Trading System (ETS).","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cmw-000776#insight-1","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"National trade associations in France, Germany, and the Netherlands have pushed to delay climate policies. In France, MEDEF sought a six-month delay; in Germany, the DIHK argued that pandemic-driven emission drops made further climate measures unnecessary; and in the Netherlands, industry lobbied to postpone a carbon tax on industrial installations in the EU ETS.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cmw-000776#insight-2","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"High-polluting sectors, including steel, cement, and glass manufacturers, sought extensions for EU ETS emissions reporting deadlines and an increase in free pollution permits. The European Commission rejected these requests, stating that existing ETS rules provided sufficient flexibility.","ai_generated":true,"unit":"cmw-000776#insight-3","date_modified":"2026-10-23"},{"text":"The International Air Transport Association (IATA) is lobbying to change the CORSIA baseline calculation to use only 2019 emissions levels instead of the 2019-2020 average. 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