COP30, awaiting a negotiation reform
COP30 comes to an end as a mirror of the current times. Multilateral cooperation on climate change barely survives, notwithstanding geopolitical tensions. Growing are the divisions between countries...
Climate finance at COP30: how to leverage $1.3 trillion by 2035
During the climate summit in Brazil, the focus shifted back to climate finance: without adequate resources, making progress on adaptation, mitigation and combating global warming is difficult, parti...
The importance of social determinants: How inequality makes pandemics more deadly
“The paradox is that a risk that makes us all equal reveals, at the same time, how unequal we are,” reads the book Pandemocracy: A Philosophy of the Coronavirus by Spanish philosoph...
COP30, how does the future look for the negotiations?
Climate negotiations are celebrating their 30th anniversary, with the start of the COP in Belém, Brazil, today, Monday 10 November. For the first time in years, I will be following a UNF...
China leads the green ranking of Asian central banks
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Some currencies are greener than others, and among the Asian ones, the Chinese yuan is currently t...
ECB, from 2026 a climate factor in collateral
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano At a time when the European Union’s commitment to climate action shows signs of wavering, th...
Africa, over 10 billion pledged for water at AIP Water Investment Summit 2025
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Seven years after coming close to “Day Zero”, when Cape Town risked running out of wat...
Beyond Profits: Ethical Banks Reshape Europe’s Financial Future
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In recent years, the European debate on the role of finance has intensified, driven by the need to...
USAID dismantled as US withdraws from development cooperation
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Mission accomplished. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Monday, the 10th of March, th...
What is the impact of the climate crisis on banks? An interview with Rong Ding
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Floods, fires, and other extreme events: the climate crisis is not only an emergency for people an...
Climate finance: major US banks exit the Net Zero Banking Alliance
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Within just one month, from December to early January, six of America’s largest banks decide...
COP29, a half success for the climate finance negotiation
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - The target is 1.3 trillion dollars a year by 2035 to help developing countries mitigat...
Italian Climate Fund: how Italy is really contributing
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - Negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) − the post-2025 f...
Nature-based Solutions, the importance of definitions
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After centuries of mindless exploitation of natural resources, humankind has recently gained aware...
COP16 on Biodiversity is over, and it was not a success
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - COP16 in Colombia ended a day later than scheduled, amid a blend of disillusionment an...
Disclosure and reporting, the TNFD at COP16 does not convince everyone
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali, Colombia - Reporting and knowledge form the foundations of implementing the Global Biod...
COP16, the gordian knot of biodiversity finance
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in Italiano From Cali, Colombia - On the 30th of October a group of 20 ministers from the global south vo...
Sustainable Investment Forum North America 2024, will finance avert the apocalypse?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From New York - On 24 September 2024, the Ziegfeld Ballroom, Manhattan's mecca for gala events, be...
CSRD and small business, somewhere between fears and a desire to grow
The countdown has begun: even small and medium-sized businesses will have to apply sustainability reporting, just as large companies have already been doing for some time. They are going to have to ...
COP29 presidency pushes climate funding and energy storage goals
Less than two months before the highly anticipated COP29 United Nations Climate Summit in Baku, on Tuesday, 17 September, the Azerbaijani presidency laid out its plan to enhance ambition and enable ...