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Climate change, Corporate Governance, Deforestation, ESG / 21.08.2025

Brazil Devastation Bill second act – The Partial Veto by Lula is a pragmatical approach which however keeps concerns for the safeguard of the Amazon Rainforest

Notwithstanding the request by most international and local environmental organization for Lula to veto the full bill, the partial veto is however a pragmatical solution which was chosen by Brazil President Lula to avoid a stronger backfiring by the Congress which voted to approve the...

Biodiversity, Climate change, Deforestation, ESG Rating / 24.07.2025

Brazil’s Devastation Bill – Licence to devastate the Amazon, the lungs of the Earth

On July 17, the Brazilian Congress approved Public Law 2159/211, often referred to as the "devastation bill." Many experts see this as the most significant rollback of environmental protections since the 1988 Constitution, which established modern environmental safeguards in Brazil. Although President Lula has 21...

AI / 11.09.2024

Generative AI: a market overview

Generative Artificial Intelligence refers to AI products that are capable of creating new content, such as text, images, audio, or video, by learning patterns from existing data. Today such models are widely used by both individuals and businesses. In this article, we provide an overview...

Climate change, Deforestation / 11.12.2020

With the deforestation of the amazon rainforest surging, investors and governments make pressure to stop it

Earlier this month, the Brazil space agency has disclosed that in the last year the Amazon forest has reported the biggest deforestation scale since 2008 in terms of square km of forest loss. Environmental activists, investors and governments are raising their voices to ask for...

Companies, Corporate Governance, Fashion, Tax Avoidance, Tech / 20.10.2020

OECD is guiding the international community in addressing the problem with tech giants and corporate tax

The international community guided by OECD has increasingly committed to finding a solution for the tax challenges connected to the digitalization of the economy. What the OECD proposed would assure that companies, especially big techs such as Google and Amazon, would pay taxes to the...

Companies, Tech / 19.10.2020

The power of Big Tech must be reined in

As the world of Big Tech is populated by a few colossi holding a disproportionate amount of power, both the EU and the US are taking steps forward. From measures aimed at fostering transparency and accountability, to more radical measures ensuring fair competition, the sector...

Climate change, Companies / 01.10.2020

Accelerating Net Zero Carbon Emissions and the risk of cheap talks

More and more companies, cities, regions, countries are committing to becoming carbon neutral, i.e. to balance out the sum of all greenhouse gases put into and taken out of the atmosphere. More companies than ever committed to ambitious climate action at the Climate Week in...

Corporate Governance / 16.12.2019

Apple shareholders to discuss human rights policies at 2020 annual meeting

Next year at Apple’ s annual meeting, shareholders will vote a non-binding resolution for transparency over human rights policies. On 9 September 2019, SumOfUs, a consumer advocacy group, submitted the proposal claiming that the US tech company had limited individual freedom of expression kowtowing to China's will, which...

Climate change / 11.12.2019

The EU’s Green New Deal: protecting the Planet or the European industry?

Will the EU be able to reach its 2050’s environmental targets? If so, at what costs for the international trade market? As President of the EU Commission, Ms. Ursula von der Leyen, is preparing to unveiling EU’s Green New Deal later this Wednesday (11 December), debates about the impacts of...