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In the United States, for the second year in a row, the pressure from shareholders of large multinationals in favor of resolutions has weakened in defense of the environment and social rights.In particular, the support from large financial funds for the so-called ESG sustainability criteria is disappearing.These data are reported by the responsible investment association ShareAction, which he highlighted that corporate sustainability support averaged around 20% in 2022, well below 2021 levels.As of 2024, only two shareholder resolutions related to environmental policies have received support from the shareholders of major publicly traded U.S. companies.Both proposals have pushed companies to provide more public information about their efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.In essence, except for a few sporadic cases, the large financial funds seem to do just that are throwing away their "green" mask, the same one worn when the environmental protests of a few years ago kep...

Voices are being raised in favor of the law on nature restoration, to push the European Union to approve the text without mincing words:in recent days, 11 EU Environment Ministers have in fact signed and sent a letter to their colleagues from the 27 to exert pressure and hold their counterparts to account regarding a law that they define as «essential for adapt to the impacts of climate change and to safeguard European food security."While waiting for the meeting of the Environment Council of the European Union, scheduled for next 17 June, the agreements on the law on the restoration of nature are in fact still stalled.The reason behind the substantial block in the negotiations lies in the ritual opposition of those countries that believe that the law would lead to a series of excessive economic losses, among these, as expected, there is also Italy, with the Meloni government which is voting systematically against all environmental protection regulations.In the past, however...

In some respects, over the last thirty years our cities, in addition to growing and hosting more and more people, have shown signs of improvement:on average, for example, grew up the separate waste collection rate (from 4.4% on average in 1994 to 62.7% in 2022) and the number and kilometers of cycle paths (from an average of 0.16m equivalents/100 inhabitants in 1998 to an average of 10.59m equivalents/100 inhabitants in 2022).However, steps forward are too small, slow and inconsistent, forced among other things to slalom between delays and interventions with stagnant behaviour.Obstacles that do not allow us to free ourselves again - or at least weaken - those urban emergencies that we have to deal with every day:smog, transport, water waste and quantity of cars in circulation.Issues which, according to Legambiente, remain the most critical to address. The average motorization rate of Italian capital cities has remained unchanged at thirty years ago, confirming itself among the highest...