Publications

Publications

Explore our publications here: reports, papers, commentary and more.

• Addressing Children’s Rights in Business: An Assessment from Switzerland and Liechtenstein
  Posted in publication on 31 August 2022

  This study assesses the role that children’s rights currently play for businesses in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. It was conducted for UNICEF Switzerland and Liechtenstein and for the UN Global Compact Network Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

• The Rise of Life Cycle Analysis and the Fall of Sustainability - Illustrations from the Apparel and Leather Sector
  Posted in publication on 28 July 2022

  Drawing on their two earlier reports on greenwashing, Dorothée Baumann-Pauly with co-author Veronica Bates-Kassatly published a white paper, which highlights the data challenges of making sustainability claims in fashion.

• Enhancing Supply Chain Resilience by Integrating Human Rights: Post-pandemic Insights from the Agriculture Sector in India
  Posted in publication on 19 May 2022

  Supply chain dynamics can change rapidly, and disruptions are increasingly the norm, not the exception. By analyzing the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on India’s coffee and sugar supply chains, we highlight economic factors that indicate and drive human rights risks.

• Ethics of cobalt mining must be taken seriously by traders
  Posted in newspublication on 22 March 2022

  Prof. Dorothée Baumann-Pauly and Prof. Michael Posner co-authored the Financial Times op-ed titled “Ethics of Cobalt Mining Must Be Taken Seriously by Traders”.

• The Great Greenwashing Machine - Part 2: The Use and Misuse of Sustainability Metrics in Fashion
  Posted in publication on 15 March 2022

  The second in a series of papers authored by Veronica Bates Kassatly and Dorothée Baumann-Pauly highlights that the environmental impact of fashion is not being correctly assessed.