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Towards more sustainable and transparent policies in the fashion industry
«It takes about 700 liters of water to produce a cotton T-shirt. That's enough water for a person to drink at least eight cups a day for three and a half years. It takes around 2,000 liters of water to produce a pair of jeans. That's more than enough because…
The five generations
Today there are five generations who live together in the workplace and tensions are likely to grow. To defuse them and reap all the benefits, it is essential to value the diversity between age groups to achieve something that no one...
Working in the company of AI
Artificial intelligence now impacts almost every aspect of work. We must not only live with it, but make the most of this collaboration by Marco Bentivogli The growth of computational, processing and data storage capabilities...
Planetary ecosystems: biodiversity at risk
by Francesca Pennisi The alarm is on the rise for the great planetary ecosystem. As clearly emerged at COP27 in Sharm El Sheik, increasingly invasive human activity is causing a worrying decline in biodiversity, understood as the variety of all forms...
Creating value in the Metaverse
Today there are new tools that can help companies create value, engage customers and beat the competition Chiara Piancatelli, Marta Massi and Deborah Carolina Raccagni Despite the Facebook-Meta crisis, which in recent days is firing one in eight ...
Interview with Alessandro Giraudo, economist
In this interview we deepen the very current topic of raw materials, influenced in the last two years by the effects of the pandemic crisis and the recent war events. Alessandro Giraudo studied in Turin, Genoa, Berkeley and Salzburg. He teaches International Finance and Commodity Geopolitics. He is the author of 17 books including "Extraordinary Stories of Raw Materials (1 & 2)" and collaborated in the drafting of the latest Macrotrends 2022 - The new (dis) global order, entitled "Raw materials: abundant, despite everything".
A long-term strategy for critical minerals
The recent explosion in prices and the scarcity of supply are an alarm signal that invites us to define industrial policies in the field of the most important raw materials In a global market, recently wrote Claudio Baccani, who was board ...
The growing risks of cyber war
What we observe every day in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict must stimulate every country to adopt stringent measures to face widespread and unscrupulous attacks, which entail very high human and economic costs The war in Ukraine is fought on all sides ...
The long times of the energy transition
The Russian aggression against Ukraine and the sharp cuts in oil and gas exports have aggravated an already difficult situation due to the consequences of the pandemic crisis. This will make the task of making the necessary transition even more complex ...