The FGV Centre for Global Law (CPDG) and the FGV Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence on EU–South America Global Governance, co-funded by the European Union under the Erasmus+ Programme, hosted an In-house Research Seminar entitled Environmental Supply Chain Regulations in a Changing Market Environment: Exploring the EU’s Regulatory Power in Ghana's Cocoa Sector, delivered by Katharina Weber.

Katharina Weber is a PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and LUISS University, and a member of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) GEM-DIAMOND, a research project assessing the European Union’s capacity for external action in a context of increasing normative contestation. Her research focuses on the EU’s external environmental governance, with particular attention to the European Union Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) as a case study for understanding how EU regulatory frameworks extend beyond its borders.

The seminar examined how the EU projects regulatory power through environmental supply chain governance and how such regulatory strategies interact with political, economic, and legal dynamics in third countries. Using Ghana’s cocoa sector as a case study, the presentation analysed the effects of EU sustainability standards on global supply chains and the tensions between internal regulatory objectives and external market realities.

The session was moderated by Professor Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida and included comments by Gabriel Ralile, fostering a critical discussion on the extraterritorial reach of EU environmental regulation and its implications for global trade governance.

The FGV Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence and the Centre for Global Law sincerely thank Katharina Weber, Professor Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida, and Gabriel Ralile for their contributions to this In-house Research Seminar.