Category: CSR/ECO/ESG

Today, Commissioner for Climate, Net Zero and Clean Growth, Wopke Hoekstra brought together representatives of forest owners and the pulp and paper sector for a high-level policy dialogue on Europe’s forest-based value chains. Representatives for the Commissioner for the Environment, Water Resilience and a Competitive Circular Economy, Jessika Roswall, and the Commissioner for Agriculture and […]

Against a backdrop of rising energy costs and growing climate risks, hundreds of mayors gathered in Brussels for the annual EU Covenant of Mayors Ceremony for a discussion with European leaders about how to make energy more affordable, strengthen resilience, and protect people’s quality of life across Europe. Local governments are on the front line […]

Tomorrow, hundreds of mayors, local and regional leaders and representatives from across Europe will come together in Brussels to participate in the EU Covenant of Mayors Ceremony 2026.  Following the European Week of Regions and Cities also held this week, the EU Covenant event will be an opportunity to discuss with Commission representatives and fellow mayors […]

Mountain forests provide many benefits, including storing carbon, protecting water supplies, reducing soil erosion, and supporting biodiversity. In Ethiopia’s Dry Evergreen Afromontane forests, two tree species – African pencil cedar (Juniperus procera) and African wild olive (Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata) – play particularly important ecological and cultural roles. However, rising temperatures and changing rainfall patterns […]

The Big Pit National Coal Museum By Arwen, Tom, Kerith & Justin – University of Surrey Students on the BSc in Environment and Sustainability programme Introduction The Big Pit National Coal Museum is a former coal mine renovated and opened as a tourist attraction on 1 April 1983. It offers underground tours and an above-ground […]

Manqiang Liu, Lanzhou University, discusses their article: Elevated CO2 amplifies contrasting cultivar-specific plant‒soil feedbacks mediated by soil biota Elevated CO2 concentration (eCO2) can promote plant biomass production, with these effects cascading to soil biota and, in turn, feeding back to plant performance. However, crop cultivars can differ greatly in their responses to eCO2. This raises […]

On 1 October 2026, Wopke Hoekstra, Commissioner for Climate, Net-Zero and Clean Growth, met with 16 young people from across Europe for a Youth Policy Dialogue on COP31 to exchange views ahead of the UN climate conference taking place in Antalya, Türkiye from 9 to 20 November.   The event was organised by the European […]

A Case Study By Doha, Cassidy, Cara, Katya and Annya – Students from the University of Surrey’s BSc Programme Introduction The coal-fields that span the geography of South Wales are considered ‘valleys’; whilst the history behind what is now dispersed soil tips, is considered to have started mid-19th century, its history can be traced back […]

In 2021, CSRHub CEO Cynthia Figge sat on a CPOstrategy Podcast panel with three other CEOs to talk about a decade of digital transformation in procurement. Five years on, the arguments have not aged. They have become the default view. Here are the passages that hold up best, each with its clip.