On May 10th we held our first supply chain due diligence conference in Germany together with Mayer Brown. Finally we got to meet people again. Under the leading question “Can doing good and doing business go together?” we discussed what we do and why we do it. Will EU...

Taking responsibility as a company for your impact on human rights and the environment is becoming a central and increasingly urgent theme. Global supply chains bring many positive impacts to countries and communities for example by creating employment, income, social...

As a result of climate change, European citrus importers apparently depend for an increased period of the year on middle-income-country Egypt as country of origin. Again, from preparatory work, we had found that the citrus suppliers involved were fully compliant with...

Can you ignore sustainability or just do it next to your other daily work? Sustainability or CSR? Working conditions in distant countries, tropical forest that is almost gone (because growing soy is also very important), women's rights that are not respected all over...

As part of impact assessments, it is essential to engage and have conversations with the people affected. So far, I had always managed to do so. Even under tough conditions in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Somalia, I had been able to sit down and properly talk with people...