Katalyst, together with our colleagues at the University of Amsterdam Responsible Business Conduct Lab and the ILR Global Labor Institute, today hosted a half-day conversation with a small group of civil society and academic experts.
Recent actions – from Trump administration tariffs to the EU Omnibus to across-the-board cuts to international programming – have dramatically changed the environment within which civil society operates when it comes to value chain regulation for labour, climate and environmental issues.
The event provided an opportunity for conversation among experts from a range of civil society and academic disciplines who are working to understand how GVC governance may be impacted by the new context.
An expert panel of representatives from trade unions, NGOs and academia shared recent observations and research, and participants had the opportunity to workshop some initial ideas about how to proceed with efforts to regulate global value chains in a highly unstable context.
