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Sustainability under attack: the green challenge between data and disinformation
For years, science has shown that climate change is real and driven by human activity. Recent news confirms that we have already crossed seven out of nine planetary boundaries that keep our planet in balance. Johan Rockström, Director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, warns that we are jeopardizing the stability of Earth’s entire life-support system – vital for our prosperity ...
Managing nature’s portfolio: why natural capital really matters
Whether as farmers or fishers, foresters or miners, households or companies, governments or communities, we manage the assets to which we have access, in line with our motivations as best as we can. But the best each of us can achieve with our individual portfolios may nevertheless result in a massive collective failure to manage the global portfolio of all our assets. We are like a crowd of people, ...
When a Company is Driven by an Idea
Purpose-driven organizations direct their economic activities toward a higher goal. In other words, these are organizations whose explicit objective is not only to generate economic value but also to create a positive economic, social, and environmental impact over the medium to long term across the value chain, benefiting all stakeholders. This is particularly crucial in the food & beverage sector, ...
Why Sustainability is Worth It (Even if Showing It Off is No Longer in Vogue)
“You’re good, and they throw stones at you. You’re bad, and they throw stones at you,” sang Gian Pieretti and Antoine at the Sanremo Festival in 1967. Fifty-eight years later, the sentiment described in the Italian song risks silencing the conversation on sustainability. The term 'greenhushing' refers to companies minimizing or completely avoiding communication about their environmental goals ...
Electric transition between the present and the future
In the last 20 years, Italy has gone from an electricity system is based on large production plants, to a structure with rapid growth of renewable sources, in particular wind and solar, and a gradual drop in thermoelectric capacity. In this context, Terna has identified some lines of action, including strengthening its commitment on the network and on interconnections abroad to increase the infrastructure ...
Networks at the Center of the Urban Ecosystem
In the last 10 years, the service that energy and gas distribution network must guarantee has changed radically: points of production linked with a medium and low voltage network, increasing electrification, and much more volatile gas consumption.#Refocusing on networks will lead to an additional effort in the coming years to make new technological solutions operational: more flexibility, more safety, ...
Electric Infrastructure for tomorrow
Electricity networks require urgent technological evolution, to allow for an energy transition towards a more sustainable model of production. The scenario presented in the Energy and Climate Plan (PNIEC) sent by the Italian government to the European Commission implies a strong commitment in regard to networks. Our daily life, which is increasingly digital, requires highly technological networks, ...
Decarbonization and the Challenges of Big Oil
The reduction of the use of fossil fuels in the economy represents an existential challenge for oil companies, on which pressure is increasing from governments, institutional investors, and civil society, as they are considered among those most responsible for greenhouse gas emissions, and thus climate change. Currently, each “Big Oil” company is facing four possible strategic options: decide ...
Cobalt: Blue Gold in the Energy Transition
In 2020, the global demand for cobalt should exceed 120,000 tons; globally, 71 percent of this mineral is extracted in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The ethical problems linked to the exploitation of adults and children in the cobalt production process pose urgent moral and image questions for technology multinationals and the large producers of electric automobiles, that risk alienating a growing ...
The Electric Future of Mobility
Today the mobility sector must deal with unprecedented pressure from social movements, citizens, and politicians, due to its impact on climate change. Currently, approximately 25% of greenhouse gases produced by our society come from the transport sector. The need to reduce the use of fossil fuels that feed the production of energy is thus increasingly pushing the transport industry to rethink its ...