To: The Honourable Ambassadors, Deputy Permanent Representatives to COREPER I

The CSDDD must clarify the key components of the climate transition plan, including short, medium, and long-term absolute emission reduction targets for scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. [...] To ensure that victim-claimants are not faced with insurmountable procedural barriers, all access to justice measures listed in the European Parliament’s report must be incorporated, including the possibility of reversal of the burden of proof at the national level. [...] The CSDDD provides an unprecedented opportunity to support and foster responsible investment and financing practices; and to fill the regulatory gap in the EU’s Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth, with many investors having voiced their support for an ambitious legislation. [...] All additional instruments included in the European Parliament’s position, including the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and the body of international humanitarian law, must be added. [...] In particular, the rights of Indigenous Peoples and human rights defenders must be added and explicitly protected as they are among the most and worst affected by corporate harm, regularly facing illegal land grabbing, threats, intimidations and murder.