Tag: csddd
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Why traceability arrived — a short history of externalities returning to the invoice
Twenty years ago, the costs of opaque sourcing — deforestation, child labour, depleted fisheries — were paid by communities, ecosystems, and labourers, never by the buyer. Today they show up in CSRD, CSDDD, and EUDR. A short history of how externalities returned to the invoice — and what the pattern says about the next decade…