Launch event of the report "Cumulative Effects of the EU Sustainability Legislation (CEULA) - Impacts on Finnish firms"

  • Nikodemus Solitander (Speaker)
  • Juho Saloranta (Speaker)
  • Dorothée Cambou (Speaker)
  • Sagne-Ollikainen, E. (Speaker)
  • Martin Fougère (Speaker)

Activity: Talk or presentationPublic or invited talk

Description

Hybrid launch event of the CEULA report at the Ministry of Finance. The report was commissioned by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, as part of UniPID Development Policy Studies (UniPID DPS), funded by the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland (MFA) and managed by the Finnish University Partnership for International Development (UniPID).

The study analyses the cumulative effects of five different EU sustainability legislations on firms, with a particular focus on of global value chains of large
Finnish firms (TE500). The study specifically analyses the following regulations: the Regulation on Deforestation-free Products (EUDR), the Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD), the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the Regulation on Prohibiting Products Made with Forced Labour (FLR, and the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR).

The report was written by Hanken researchers Nikodemus Solitander, Martin Fougère, Heidi Herlin, Neema Komba, Amin Maghsoudi together with Dorothée Cambou (University of Helsinki), Mikko Rajavuori (University of Turku), Elina Sagne-Ollikainen (Åbo Akademi University), and Juho Saloranta (University of Eastern Finland).
Period28 Jan 2025
Held atMinistry for Foreign Affairs of Finland
Degree of RecognitionNational

Keywords

  • green transition
  • corporate responsibility
  • EU regulations
  • soft law