Author: ahmaddermawan

AAS-in-Asia Conference 2024

by ahmaddermawan, posted in Events
Yogyakarta, Indonesia, 9-11 July 2024

AAS-in-Asia Conference 2024 is a joint collaboration between the prestigious Association for Asian Studies (AAS) and the Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia. This conference packs a punch with its exciting features. You can expect a diverse range of sessions, thought-provoking keynote speakers, captivating book exhibits, and delightful receptions.

The theme of the conference is “Global Asias” as a new historical, conceptual, and methodological lens for exploring the multiplicity, complexity, and dynamics of Asia in its manifest and hidden connections within the region and with the rest of the world from antiquity to the present. With the AAS-in-Asia Conference 2024 being held in Indonesia, where pluralism lives in its history, constitution, culture, languages, religions, and physical geography, the city of Yogyakarta will be well suited for our intellectual and cultural exchange on Global Asias. We therefore welcome all disciplinary and thematic approaches to Global Asias: history, literature, religion, cinema, law, politics, labor, economics, gender, archaeology, linguistics, sociology, anthropology, media studies, social movements, public health (pandemic) and the environment.

Supply chain divergence challenges a ‘Brussels effect’ from Europe’s human rights and environmental due diligence laws

by ahmaddermawan, posted in Publications

Mairon G. Bastos Lima and Almut Schilling-Vacaflor

Global Policy

Human rights violations and pressing environmental issues have tainted agricultural trade. The role of international market demand for commodities such as soy in causing those problems is clear, yet they remain mostly unaddressed. Therefore, European countries have led a new global trend on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence (HREDD), advancing the EU’s growing global regulatory ambitions. Here, we analyse the prospects for successful externalisation of Europe’s sustainability standards – a ‘Brussels Effect’ – using Brazilian soy as a case. Our analysis exposes how the practice of supply chain divergence (i.e., the segmentation of exports tailored to different consumer requirements) can easily evade policy impacts and negate their additionality where Europe commands a minor market share. To avoid becoming just a niche market in these cases, the EU would need to expand on its actions, (i) engaging with other major consumer countries to export its standards, (ii) doubling down on HREDD’s coverage to include financial actors and companies trading with other markets, or (iii) moving beyond ‘do no harm’ policies to adopt more strategically targeted ‘do good’ instruments to counter drivers of deforestation on the landscape level.

IUFRO World Congress

by ahmaddermawan, posted in Events
Stockholm, Sweden, 23-29 June 2024

The 26th IUFRO World Congress is scheduled to take place in Stockholm, Sweden, this summer. IUFRO World Congresses are among the largest global forest-related events. IUFRO World Congresses are interdisciplinary and integrative in scientific content. They are a forum for scientists and stakeholders to discuss technical and societal issues of forest-related research, policy-making and management.

Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2024

by ahmaddermawan, posted in Events
Helsinki and Espoo, Finland, 10-14 June 2024

Sustainability Research & Innovation Congress (SRI) has united global leaders in research, government, civil society, and business to meaningfully advance progress towards sustainability. The SRI Congress offers an exceptionally inclusive and inspiring global platform for co-creating state-of-the-art solutions and innovations and building a coalition of the willing to achieve a sustainability transformation. SRI is co-convened by Future Earth and the Belmont Forum with local co-organizers.