{"id":18108,"date":"2024-03-17T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2024-03-17T10:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/?p=18108"},"modified":"2024-08-08T16:54:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T16:54:45","slug":"unido-director-general-gerd-mueller-on-the-vote-of-the-coreper-on-the-eu-corporate-sustainability-due-diligence-directive-csddd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/?p=18108","title":{"rendered":"UNIDO Director General Gerd M\u00fcller on the vote of the COREPER on the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18110 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Gerd-Mueller.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Gerd-Mueller.jpg 220w, https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Gerd-Mueller-148x300.jpg 148w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/>UNIDO\/UNCAV-Vienna March 2024,&#8220;Today, the EU has set the course for fairer and more equitable globalization. Millions of workers in developing countries will benefit from this Directive. Internationally operating European companies will now have<br \/>\nto comply with fundamental international social and environmental standards such as the ban on child labor or the contamination of drinking water. This is urgently necessary: Roughly 80 million children are engaged in the worst forms of child labour &#8211; including<br \/>\nfor products which are sold and consumed in Europe. From now on, Europe will show that European products stand for human rights and fair production. Exploitation and child labour in developing countries must no longer be a competitive advantage! The next step<br \/>\nis a global set of rules that includes companies worldwide &#8211; as Director General of the United Nations organization for sustainable economic and industrial development, I am committed to this.&#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), with its 172 Member States, has made sustainable supply chains a priority. It supports its Member States and pioneering companies in introducing fair production processes and implementing international<br \/>\nstandards. It also helps suppliers in capacity building, developing new processes and applying due diligence obligations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UNIDO\/UNCAV-Vienna March 2024,&#8220;Today, the EU has set the course for fairer and more equitable globalization. Millions of workers in developing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18111,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18108\/revisions\/18111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncav-vienna.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}