Sustainable investing has been perceived as sacrificing some financial return is the belief that fiduciary duty means focusing only on returns—thereby ignoring ESG factors that can affect them, particularly over time. However, more recent legal opinions and regulatory guidelines make it clear that it is a violation of fiduciary duty not to consider such factors. …
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Consumption of natural resources and materials, driven by the growth in world population and the rise of living standards, happens at an unprecedented pace, projectedto nearly double by 2060.It happens despite a shift from manufacturing to service industries, improvements in industrial efficiency and a global slowdown of the economic growth, led by China (OECD, 2019)In …
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The world’s largest rainforest has been burning for almost 20 days. The situation has created shock and indignation for people around the world, but the real problem has been slowly increasing for the past 30 years due to a long and fast-moving deforestation phenomenon. Although there are still no figures of the magnitude of the …
Sustainable development assumes a fundamental transition to a new economic paradigm, built on an inclusive, holistic and a long-term view of the economic well-being that should be achieved through higher levels of economic production, inclusive and sustainable industrialization, economic diversification and technological upgrading. Such a fundamental transition requires a series of connected transformations of socio-technical …
On 20 June 2019, at the Parc de Saint-Cloud in Paris, ENGIE presented “The good day“, a day to experience the zero-carbon transition. Between now and 2050, the world has been called upon to lead the second wave of the zero-carbon transition. We are therefore at the heart of an unprecedented revolution for our planet. …
“The Good Day” in Paris: Moving Towards inclusive Urbanization and Zero-Carbon in Cities Read More »
Last June I got to know that #NoEthicsNoBrand was collecting ideas in order to create some podcast series for their web platform www.gliascoltabili.it. They already had four projects ready for kick-off but there was still some space left to fill. When I presented the first draft of “Sostenibilità for beginners” to Giacomo Zito, the director …
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Summer is not the best season to venture into the woods and fields of the Salvaraja farm because the sun is fierce, the animals hide in the cool and insects give no respite. Regardless of the risks, however, some students from the University of Milan participated to the event “Agri-coolture” last June 23rd. The event …
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Hasankeyf is a city situated in southeast Turkey, in the province of Batman. It is 12.000 years old, and has 5,500 caves, 550 monuments and historical sites, which belong to 24 different cultures. However, this open-air museum may disappear soon. Why? Starting from the mid-1950s, the Turkish government started to inspect the Tigris river downstream …
Have you wondered why in the last couple of weeks every time you wanted to Google something, the Google sign would turn into a football pitch full of female players? This was actually the first and most prominent sign of the incredible attention that the FIFA Women’s World Cup® 2019, that finished last Sunday with …
The Final: FIFA Women’s World Cup® 2019 vs Gender Equality Read More »
Matteo Salvini did not hesitate: with the issuing of directive no. 14100/141(8) (decreto sicurezza 2), lives at sea must be safeguarded onlywhen the national Maritime Rescue Coordination Center formally assumes its responsibility for such operations. Since 2015, both the EU and Italy decided that leaving people to die at sea would be effective for the …
Oh Captain, My Captain: Disobedience against Salvini Read More »
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