The REP Wrap: French court rules against Yves Rocher
The French courts have ruled against beauty company Yves Rocher Group in a breakthrough case for the country’s Duty of Vigilance Law. A complaint brought by former employees of a Turkish subsidiary of the firm, along with three non-profits, alleged that it had violated labour rights – partly by ‘union busting’. The Paris Judicial Court concluded that Rocher Group should have identified risks of serious violations of workers’ rights within its Turkish subsidiary, and shouldn’t have excluded it from its vigilance plan. It ordered the company to compensate the Petrol-Is union and six former
Most companies that have been removed from scope of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive plan to maintain their disclosure efforts anyway. A survey of more than 400 executives at large firms found that 90% of those to have been cut from the rules as a result of the recent ‘Omnibus I’ project intend to keep reporting. Among the biggest barriers to sustainability reporting were costs constraints, insufficient technology and systems, and unclear internal responsibilities.
A project backed by GSK has secured funding from the UK government to advice the production of “high-purity bio-based solvents for medicines manufacturing”. The consortium, whose members include environmental consultancy ERM, pharma company Exactmer and two UK universities, landed £7m from the Department of Health and Social Care as part of its Sustainable Medicines Manufacturing Innovation Programme.
Boeing will buy at least 40,000 tonnes of durable carbon dioxide removals from Carbonfuture. The terms of the deal have not been disclosed, but it looks to be one of the biggest of its kind in the aviation space so far, and will see Boeing acquire credits generated from biochar projects.
Women held 28.3% of board seats globally in 2025. That’s according to the latest figure from data house MSCI, which found that, while the proportion continues to grow, it has slowed – especially in developed markets. Emerging markets saw a sharp drop in all male boards over the period, falling from 16.1% to 12%.