Finance

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...

Global plastics treaty: is a weak agreement better than none at all?

This article is available also in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The fifth and final round of negotiations (INC-5) for a Global Plastics Treaty begins today, Novem...

Suriname and Guyana, when climate adaptation requires oil money

This article is also available in Italian / Qusto articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - Marciano Dasai is the environment minister of Suriname, a small Caribbean country ...

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...

A dual energy dependence between Azerbaijan and Italy: ECCO's case study

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Azerbaijan, the host country of the COP29 climate conference in Baku, is certainly not a positive ...

COP29, carbon market standards approved (with no negotiations)

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After a troubled launch, as countries scrambled to discuss a few of the trickier points of the neg...

COP29: with Trump's return, will China be the new climate hero?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano COP29 in Baku opened against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s re-election. While the announcem...

The return of Trump, how does China feel about it?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano While Donald Trump's victory has been all too clear and straightforward, and even the reasons for ...

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