About this episode

The episode discusses the importance of sustainability and impact labels in identifying organizations that prioritize people over profit.

With hundreds of sustainability and impact labels in circulation, how can consumers, policymakers and investors identify organisations that really do put people over profit? And why does it matter for the social economy? In this episode of Cogito Talks, Shayne MacLachlan is joined by Ruben Rebelo from the European Commission and Sofija Rakcejeva from the OECD to explore how labels can do more than just make social economy more visible and easier to support but also help people do better. Drawing on a recent joint OECD and European Commission report, we will unpack the different types of labels that exist, from those exclusively for social economy entities to broader impact and financial labels, and discuss how they can guide funding, policy decisions and consumer choices. Host: Shayne MacLachlan, Public Affairs and Communications Manager at the OECD Centre for Entrepreneurship, SMEs, Regions and Cities Rúben Rebelo is a policy officer currently serving at the Directorate-General for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission. He joined the ‘Social and Inclusive Entrepreneurship’ unit in 2021 and is working on the implementation of the Social Economy…

People in this episode

Host: Shayne MacLachlan

Guests: Ruben Rebelo, Sofija Rakcejeva

Topics covered

• sustainability
• social economy
• impact labels
• consumer choices
• policy decisions

Keywords

• sustainability
• impact labels
• social economy
• consumer choices
• policy decisions

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: European Commission, OECD

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