Finance

NextChem launches sustainability-linked finance plan to boost decarbonisation

MAIRE announced that NEXTCHEM has launched its first Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework, a strategic move designed to anchor financial activities to measurable sustainability targets. The &ld...

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...

The 2025 Nobel Prize in Economics to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 2025 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt “for having ex...

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...

American Pastoral

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On 4 November 2008, I was among the thousands who gathered in Grant Park, Chicago, to witness the ...

Italy, Terna Reports Record €1.3 Billion Capex in First Half of 2025

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In the first half of 2025, Terna, Italy’s national electricity transmission grid operator, d...

EU and US Seal Trade Deal with Tariff Ceiling and New Market Access

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The European Union and the United States have formally adopted a Joint Statement establishing a ne...

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...

United Nations, is UN80 the start of a new era?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche italiano “The Trump presidency is seriously destabilising the UN system, and many heads of state are fol...

Maire Reaffirms Its Commitment to ESG Projects

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano These are difficult times for the world of corporate ESG. 2024 was the year of the so-called &ldqu...

CATL, all you need to know about the Chinese battery giant making its stock market debut

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On 20 May, with a well-aimed strike on the giant bronze gong of the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, Chin...

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...

CBAM, Commissioner Hoekstra announces exemptions for 80% of EU companies

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Following the increasingly probable step back of the Omnibus package on CSRD, CSDDD, and the Taxon...

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...