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ESG as a factor in industrial resilience: the challenge for Italian companies

ESG as a factor in industrial resilience: the challenge for Italian companies

ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) values are structural elements in the strategy of a rising number of Italian companies. On the one hand, this is the effect of regulatory requirements, e...

A province teaming up for sustainability: Trentino shares its story

A province teaming up for sustainability: Trentino shares its story

The autonomous province of Trento, with the support of Trentino Sviluppo, has embarked on a journey to become the first territory with an ESG rating in Italy. A project that will be fully opera...

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...

Certifying gender equality also strengthens a company's stability

Certifying gender equality also strengthens a company's stability

Although gender equality is now a central topic in public debate, dominating the news on a daily basis, some confusion still remains regarding the real implications behind this concept, often viewed...

Gender equality: the Trentino model balancing welfare, education and transparency

Gender equality: the Trentino model balancing welfare, education and transparency

Achieving the UNI/PdR 125:2022 certification on gender equality means not only meeting a set of requirements, measured through specific KPIs, but above all promoting a corporate culture capable of s...

Gender equality: Italy is lagging behind. Vision and strategy necessary, not least for a fairer transition

Gender equality: Italy is lagging behind. Vision and strategy necessary, not least for a fairer transition

Gender equality will take 134 years to achieve. Five generations. This is not a catastrophic prediction, but rather the estimate of the Global Gender Gap Report 2024, which photographs a slowdown in...

The gender gap in STEM persists, but the transition needs female talent

The gender gap in STEM persists, but the transition needs female talent

That science is not a woman’s business is an old cliché, increasingly disproved nowadays by new strands of historiography that restore brilliant female researchers and inventors of the ...

Trentino has a goal: to be the first Italian region with an ESG rating

Trentino has a goal: to be the first Italian region with an ESG rating

Within a global context where competitiveness, innovation, and sustainability can no longer proceed on separate tracks, Trentino has opted to promote a development model capable of integrating them ...

The new channel The Social & Governance Observer is launched

The new channel The Social & Governance Observer is launched

‘A just ecological transition is inclusive and leaves no one behind,’ declared Marina Silva, Brazil’s combative Minister of the Environment and Climate, at the opening of COP30, th...

The large skills gap in Italy's transition

The large skills gap in Italy's transition

Italy may be speaking about innovation, but its training programmes remain inadequate and poorly designed. According to the eLearning Maturity Report 2025 published by the Politecnico di Milano...