Objective
This Project aims to address an increasingly pressing global challenge: How to achieve the EU’s development goals and the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, while meeting the global target of staying within two degrees global warming and avoid transgressing other planetary boundaries.
EU policies must align with sustainable development goals (Article 11 TFEU). The impacts of climate change and global loss of natural habitat undermine the progress achieved by pursuing the Millennium Development Goals and threaten the realisation of EU development policy goals.
Our focus is the role of EU’s public and private market actors. They have a high level of interaction with actors in emerging and developing economies, and are therefore crucial to achieving the EU’s development goals. However, science does not yet cater for insights in how the regulatory environment influences their decision-making, nor in how we can stimulate them to make development-friendly, environmentally and socially sustainable decisions.
Comprehensive, ground-breaking research is necessary into the regulatory complexity in which EU private and public market actors operate, in particular concerning their interactions with private and public actors in developing countries.
Our Consortium, leading experts in law, economics, and applied environmental and social science, is able to analyse this regulatory complexity in a transdisciplinary and comprehensive perspective, both on an overarching level and in depth, in the form of specific product life-cycles: ready-made garments and mobile phones. We bring significant new evidence-based insights into the factors that enable or hinder coherence in EU development policy; we will advance the understanding of how development concerns can be successfully integrated in non-development policies and regulations concerning market actors; and we provide tools for improved PCD impact assessment as well as for better corporate sustainability assessment.
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Funding Scheme
RIA - Research and Innovation action
Coordinator
0313 Oslo
Norway
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Participants (24)
0349 Oslo
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3621 BG Breukelen
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2000 Frederiksberg
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12006 Castellon De La Plana
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42208 Czestochowa
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N/A Legon Accra
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31 115 Krakow
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BS8 1QU Bristol
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S10 2TN Sheffield
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10691 Stockholm
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7001 Hobart
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Hong Kong
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1165 Kobenhavn
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5838 Bergen
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200030 Shanghai
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0608 Oslo
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20014 Turku
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3220 Geelong Victoria
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07100 Sassari
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BS1 4QD Bristol
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T12 YN60 Cork
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814 99 Bratislava
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8000 Aarhus C
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1230 Dhaka
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