{"id":567526,"date":"2025-11-13T11:34:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:34:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567526\/"},"modified":"2025-11-13T11:34:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-13T11:34:17","slug":"eu-lawmakers-back-further-weakening-of-sustainability-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/567526\/","title":{"rendered":"EU lawmakers back further weakening of sustainability law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">By Philip Blenkinsop and Kate Abnett<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union lawmakers backed \u200bfurther cuts to the bloc&#8217;s corporate \u200csustainability law on Thursday, following months of pressure from \u200ccompanies and some governments demanding the EU weakens its rules.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The European Union&#8217;s corporate sustainability due diligence directive (CSDDD) was adopted last year and \u2060requires companies to \u200cfix human rights and environmental issues in their supply chains, or face \u200dfines of up to 5% of global turnover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">The law has become a political flashpoint, with countries including \u200bthe United States and Qatar demanding it is \u200cweakened further. They have warned the rules risk disrupting their gas supplies to Europe.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">In a vote on Thursday, the European Parliament determined that only companies with at least 5,000 workers \u2060and 1.5 billion euro \u200b ($1.75 billion)\u200b turnover should comply and removed the need for them to set out their \u200dplans to \u2060meet climate change commitments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">European Parliament representatives will still need to negotiate a final text with counterparts \u2060from EU governments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">($1 = 0.8575 euros)<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1090901\">(Reporting \u200cby Kate Abnett and Philip Blenkinsop, \u200cEditing by William Maclean)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Philip Blenkinsop and Kate Abnett BRUSSELS (Reuters) -European Union lawmakers backed \u200bfurther cuts to the bloc&#8217;s corporate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":567527,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[22835,2000,299,5187,1699,20730,180344],"class_list":{"0":"post-567526","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-corporate-sustainability","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-european-parliament","14":"tag-philip-blenkinsop"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115542180842199334","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567526\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}