Human rights and environmental due diligence in the Green Transition: toward greater accountability amid geopolitical and sustainability challenges

The document warns that the European Union's efforts to align the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Taxonomy Regulation via an Omnibus law are likely to weaken HREDD requirements. It identifies that the prioritization of supply chain resilience in industrialized countries and company-level issues—such as poor transparency, lack of traceability, and over-reliance on private voluntary standards—hinder accountability. The authors advocate for integrating HREDD into critical raw material supply chain policies with strict reporting, rigorous monitoring, and robust enforcement.

• The European Union's current efforts to align the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) with the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Taxonomy Regulation through an Omnibus law are expected to weaken the CSDDD.
• The effectiveness of HREDD rules is undermined by the prioritization of supply chain resilience in industrialized nations, as well as corporate-level failures including a lack of traceability, poor transparency, and an excessive dependence on private voluntary standards for compliance.
• To ensure HREDD rules are effective, they must be incorporated into policies governing critical raw material supply chains, supported by clear guidance, strict reporting, robust enforcement, and rigorous monitoring of due diligence systems.

APA

M., G., M-T., G., R., K. L., A., F. P., & A., S.-V. (2025). Human rights and environmental due diligence in the Green Transition: toward greater accountability amid geopolitical and sustainability challenges. Stockholm Environment Institute. https://www.sei.org/publications/human-rights-environmental-due-diligence-green-transition/

Chicago

M., Gordon,, Gustafsson, M-T., Kløcker Larsen, R., Frohn Pedersen, A., and Schilling-Vacaflor, A. Human rights and environmental due diligence in the Green Transition: toward greater accountability amid geopolitical and sustainability challenges. Stockholm Environment Institute, 2025. https://www.sei.org/publications/human-rights-environmental-due-diligence-green-transition/.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{m2025human, author = {M., Gordon, and M-T., Gustafsson, and R., Kløcker Larsen, and A., Frohn Pedersen, and A., Schilling-Vacaflor,}, title = {{Human rights and environmental due diligence in the Green Transition: toward greater accountability amid geopolitical and sustainability challenges}}, institution = {Stockholm Environment Institute}, year = {2025}, month = mar, url = {https://www.sei.org/publications/human-rights-environmental-due-diligence-green-transition/}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }