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Ferragamo Enters S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2026

Ferragamo Enters S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2026

Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. has been included for the first time in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2026, following its performance in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). The co...

Trump revokes scientific ruling on greenhouse gas emissions

Trump revokes scientific ruling on greenhouse gas emissions

"Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, ...

PFAS: inaction will cost the EU €440 billion by 2050

PFAS: inaction will cost the EU €440 billion by 2050

Four hundred and forty billion euros. That is the cost that European society risks incurring by 2050 if the current levels of contamination from PFAS, the so-called “forever chemicals”, ...

China, a five-year plan for space

China, a five-year plan for space

In a video released in November by the CGTN network, five taikonauts (from taikong: space in Chinese) are seen roasting chicken wings on board a space station. “This is the first time in ...

A new index to promote equity in maritime activities

A new index to promote equity in maritime activities

According to UN Trade & Development, between 1995 and 2020, the economic sector associated to maritime activities grew 2.5 times, twice as fast as the global economy. In 2023, the maritime ...

Italy’s Power Demand Stalls as Solar Hits Record High

Italy’s Power Demand Stalls as Solar Hits Record High

Italy’s electricity consumption reached 311.3 TWh in 2025, remaining essentially unchanged compared to 2024, according to data released by Terna, the national transmission grid operator led by...

IPBES 2026 Report: business-as-usual is eroding biodiversity, but companies can benefit from saving it

IPBES 2026 Report: business-as-usual is eroding biodiversity, but companies can benefit from saving it

When he first began working on these topics, Matt Jones liked to pose a challenge: name a business activity that does not, in some way, depend on biodiversity. “No one has ever managed to prov...

Sustainability and Territory: the special project of the Autonomous Province of Trento kicks off

Sustainability and Territory: the special project of the Autonomous Province of Trento kicks off

The year 2026 will be pivotal for the Autonomous Province of Trento's Special Strategic and Integrated Marketing Project, coordinated by Trentino Sviluppo's ESG & Sustainability Area. After...

More and more regions around the world are facing water bankruptcy

More and more regions around the world are facing water bankruptcy

There were algae, carp, sturgeon, and other fish, fishing boats and canning factories. Along the shores of the Aral Sea, on the border between Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, a vibrant community once liv...

Leasys and EIB back €600 milion push for Europe’s zero-emission fleets

Leasys and EIB back €600 milion push for Europe’s zero-emission fleets

Europe’s transition toward low-carbon mobility is gaining momentum with a new €600 million financing agreement between Leasys and the European Investment Bank. The two partners will contr...

Terna pioneers Europe’s first perpetual hybrid Green Bond

Terna pioneers Europe’s first perpetual hybrid Green Bond

Terna S.p.A. has successfully completed a landmark operation in the European sustainable finance market with the launch of a perpetual, subordinated, hybrid, non-convertible, fixed-rate European Gre...

Deep-sea mining: Japan begins its first tests


Deep-sea mining: Japan begins its first tests


Almost 1,900 kilometres south-east of Tokyo, in the vastness of the western Pacific Ocean, lies the uninhabited atoll of Minami-Torishima. Japan’s easternmost outpost, this sliver of land secu...

Trump keeps digging the grave of transatlantic diplomacy in Davos

Trump keeps digging the grave of transatlantic diplomacy in Davos

“Who the hell wants to defend a licence agreement for a piece of ice?” This may not be the most important sentence in Trump’s long speech in Davos today, 21 January, but it is perh...

The High Seas Treaty takes effect: now international law

The High Seas Treaty takes effect: now international law

With the ratification of the 60th state in September, the 120-day countdown to the entry into force of the High Seas Treaty began, which takes effect today, 17 January. Also known as the BBNJ (Biodi...

Global Risks Report 2026: The “Age of Competition” shapes the future threats

Global Risks Report 2026: The “Age of Competition” shapes the future threats

The year ahead opens against a backdrop of accumulated tensions, unresolved crises and shifting global balances. After years marked by pandemics, wars, inflationary shocks and accelerating technolog...

Copernicus: 2025 has been the third hottest year ever recorded

Copernicus: 2025 has been the third hottest year ever recorded

2025 has been a particularly critical year for our planet: with an average global temperature of 14.97°C, which is 0.59°C above the 1991-2020 average, last year has been the third hottest ev...

Meloni, press conference marked by a pragmatism that suggests a slowdown

Meloni, press conference marked by a pragmatism that suggests a slowdown

A three-hour-long press conference, forty questions. Giorgia Meloni picked the traditional start-of-the-year conference to discuss the latest foreign policy shifts by the US, explain the government'...

The US pulls out of the UNFCCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The US pulls out of the UNFCCC, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change

The Trump administration has launched yet another onslaught on international law and the fight against climate change. In a deeply troubling and unprecedented move, on Wednesday 7 January, Secretary...

SMEs at the Core of EU Energy Efficiency with New EUSEW 2026 Award

SMEs at the Core of EU Energy Efficiency with New EUSEW 2026 Award

The European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) is expanding its focus on small and medium-sized enterprises with the launch of the brand-new “SMEs Driving Energy Efficiency Award”, on...

Lavazza Unveils 2026 Calendar as Growth and Innovation Drive Strategy

Lavazza Unveils 2026 Calendar as Growth and Innovation Drive Strategy

The unveiling of the Lavazza Calendar 2026 marks more than the launch of a cultural icon. Presented in international preview at Art Basel Miami Beach, the 34th edition of one of the longest-running ...