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Sustainability, Due Diligence and Value Chain Governance

Sustainability, Due Diligence and Value Chain Governance

Author: Fabrizio Cafaggi; Paola Iamiceli; Federico Pistelli
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 9781035350629
Published In: October 2025
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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In light of the most recent EU legislative initiatives in the field and the innovative case law in Europe and North America, this timely book explores the impact of the shift from voluntary to mandatory due diligence and the sustainability challenges on global value chains. It examines how businesses, regulators, and stakeholders navigate this transition to align economic growth and liability regimes in supply chains with environmental and human rights protections.

Expert authors analyze the role of industry leaders in managing supply chain sustainability, the new EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, its subsequent amendments in the Omnibus I package, and the integration of public and private governance tools. The regulatory multilevel system that includes international and national regulation poses daunting challenges to governance and regulation of global chains. The book addresses the legal and contractual frameworks required to enforce these obligations along supply chains based on extraterritorial administrative and judicial enforcement and stakeholder participation. Contributors underline the necessity for stronger accountability mechanisms and innovative contractual approaches to ensure compliance and sustainable development, emphasizing the need for shared responsibility along supply chains. Ultimately, they highlight how new global governance tools can enable equitable and effective action in protecting environmental and social values.

Integrating legal analysis with insights from supply chain management and institutional economics, this book is a crucial read for scholars and students of private, commercial, comparative, and international law. With its in-depth analysis of legal frameworks, it also provides actionable insights for businesses, policymakers, and legal experts.

Foreword: rethinking the governance of global value chains xiii

Compliance and due diligence in global value chains: the emergence of a EU sustainability framework in global

regulation 1

Fabrizio Cafaggi, Paola Iamiceli and Federico Pistelli

PART I SUSTAINABILITY AND GOVERNANCE: A VALUE CHAIN APPROACH

Duties within the supply chain: disclosure, due diligence and oversight and the theory of the firm 39

Kishanthi Parella

Decarbonizing global chains with regulatory mixes 54

Giuseppe Bellantuono

The voluntary carbon market: a primer 86

Vittoria Battocletti and Alessandro Romano

PART II SUSTAINABILITY DUE DILIGENCE AND GLOBAL SUPPLY CHAINS: THE CHALLENGES OF