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Shell’s exit strategy: sell the damaged pipeline, keep buying the oil Posted in category: Written by: Published on: 25 June 2026 reading time 7 minutes For years, Shell pumped oil through a 97 km pipeline in the Niger Delta that it knew was riddled with leaks, and which it was unable to protect from tampering. The environmental impact was devastating. In 2014, the oil giant sold the pipeline and the oil fields it served to newly created companies.

Straight to content Lessons from the first legal challenges to the EU’s fast-tracked mining projects Posted in category: Written by: Published on: 23 June 2026 reading time 12 minutes The EU is fast-tracking mining projects in the name of the energy transition, competitiveness, and supply security. But as the first legal challenges against these projects emerge, communities and civil society organisations warn that environmental protections and public scrutiny are being sidelined.

Europe’s AI future in the hands of a US company Posted in category: Published on: 18 June 2026 reading time 12 minutes Nvidia has become one of the biggest winners of the AI boom. Yet its influence extends far beyond the chips that power ChatGPT and other AI systems. Through a growing network of investments and partnerships, the company is shaping the future of the AI industry while increasing its influence and profits.

Posted in category: Written by: Published on: 16 June 2026 reading time 5 minutes Last year, we published a study into the influence of US asset managers(opens in new window) on the Dutch stock market.

ING is one of the banks helping Elon Musk’s SpaceX go public, in what is expected to be the largest initial public offering (IPO) in history. But for a bank that presents itself as a champion of sustainability and responsible business, involvement in the listing of a company controlled by one of the world’s most controversial billionaires raises serious questions. Read more in our op-ed, originally published in Dutch in Het Financieele Dagblad (FD).

Posted in category: Written by: Published on: 30 April 2026 reading time 5 minutes When people talk about surveillance and privacy, they often imagine secretive government agencies, futuristic spyware, or complex algorithms developed by Big Tech companies.

Posted in category: Written by: Published on: 21 April 2026 reading time 3 minutes Today, 21 April 2026, the Dutch office(opens in new window) of the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC) network, with support from SOMO, filed a groundbreaking lawsuit against Levi Strauss Nederland B.V. and Levi Strauss & Co Europe BV (together “Levi’s”), Dutch and Belgian subsidiaries respectively of denim giant Levi Strauss & Co. The core argument of the lawsuit is that Levi’s has used misleading claims about the...

Hoe ISDS moet worden aangepakt in Santa Marta Geplaatst in categorie: Geschreven door: Gepubliceerd op: 16 april 2026 reading time 5 minutes Van 24 tot en met 29 april 2026 organiseren Colombia en Nederland samen de eerste internationale conferentie(opens in new window) over het afbouwen van fossiele brandstoffen in Santa Marta. Het doel is duidelijk en breed gedeeld: sneller en op een eerlijke manier stoppen met het gebruik van kolen, olie en gas.

How ISDS must be tackled at Santa Marta Posted in category: Written by: Published on: 16 April 2026 From 24-29 April 2026, Colombia and the Netherlands are co-hosting the First Conference on Transitioning Away from Fossil Fuels(opens in new window) in Santa Marta. The goal is urgent and widely shared: to accelerate a just and orderly phase-out of coal, oil and gas.

Following the Omnibus I revision of the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), SOMO is launching an update of the CSDDD Datahub. The Datahub provides an overview of the corporate groups and companies covered by the CSDDD, as well as sectoral and country-level information. Now that the EU has severely limited the CSDDD, only 974 corporate groups in the EU remain in scope – a reduction of 71 per cent compared to the Directive’s initial version adopted in 2024.