Sustainability-Law4B Magazine

Observatory

The Green Supply Chain: the sustainable management of a product, from the extraction of the raw material to its consumption (September 2022)
ESG rating agencies: issues and perspectives (May 2022)
Brief considerations on long-termism, sustainability and directors’ duties, including in light of the European Commission’s recently proposed directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (April 2022)
The paradox of sustainable taxonomy in the arms race (March 2022)
Towards the Regulation of Sustainability: some reflections on the recent Amendments to the Italian Constitution and the Proposed European Directive on due diligence (February 2022)
Sustainable business development through cooperative companies: the rebirth of a model (November 2021)
Initiatives, mission and future prospects of ethical banking in Italy (October 2021)
From coffee to designer crockery: an increasing number of companies are focusing on sustainability, amidst much light and some shade (September 2021)
How to measure investments’ sustainability? Some considerations on ethical rating. (July 2021)
Football and Corporate Social Responsibility: the Superleague issue. (July 2021)

The Magazine

Sustainability-Law4B Magazine is a virtual space for reflection, exchange of ideas and innovation for business sustainability, promoted by some researchers and professors of the University of Padua who deal with business law and markets.

The Magazine hosts reflections on various themes and on the most emblematic events related to “sustainable development“, from the point of view of the rules of production, trade and economic relations.

The concept of sustainability was coined for the first time in 1987 by the “Brundtland Report” with specific regard to environmental protection, but today it has a wide-ranging scope, as an essential foundation of economic and social development of the production system and trade in the local, national and planetary dimension. The integrated vision of the various facets of sustainability means that the business world in particular is called upon to make its own contribution.

Through the periodical publication of food for thought, Sustainability-Law4B Magazine proposes itself as the voice of research on business that faces the world of sustainability, in order to encourage dialogue withentrepreneurial, professional and civil community realities, a fruitful exchange of ideas, the acquisition of a more complete and profitable awareness of the centrality of the problems of sustainability for the future of human society.

Beyond the strictly technical problems on the legal level, the debate on the exercise of business activities in a sustainable manner now concerns everyone, even non-experts, because its implications have a growing impact in everyday life.

The topics addressed are characterized by their topicality and wide-ranging variety: not only for the intrinsic breadth of the subject, but also for its strong international vocation, an essential element in a globalized market.

By dealing with the themes of sustainable development, the Magazine expressly pursues some of the objectives of the Agency 2030: