Circular economy and industry

The Forum for Sustainable Finance

On the topic of finance increasingly in step with the ecological transition, Soft&Green wanted to listen to the voice of Francesco Bicciato, Director of the Forum for Sustainable Finance. Finance plays an important role in the green transition because, when…

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Europe for climate neutrality

Becoming Net Zero by 2050 entails reducing carbon emissions to zero in Europe to curb the rise in global temperatures and stabilize them within 1.5 °C. To support the path to Europe becoming the first climate-neutral economy, the Green Deal…

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Bioeconomics: the green transition as an opportunity

The bioeconomy is an economic model based on the biophysical limit of growth that aims to use biological resources, including waste, as inputs for producing goods and energy. According to a European classification, primary production sectors (agriculture, livestock, forestry, fisheries,…

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The importance of sustainability indexes

While experts and scholars now agree on the definition of sustainability, the debate on how to effectively measure companies’ social and environmental performance is still ongoing. It also happens on a national level: economists are aware of the limitations of…

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Rivers of plastic

Asia is the continent where the largest number of polluted and polluting rivers are located. On the list of the 50 river basins suffering from the worst conditions, 44 are on the Asian continent with the Philippines, India, Malaysia, China and…

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