A product sold in Europe will soon need a digital identity card. Here is what changes, and why preparing now makes sense. Jun 18, 2026 Laetitia Dayras Imagine buying a jacket. On the jacket there is a QR code. Scanning it, you can see where the fibre comes from, whether the product is repairable, whether it contains hazardous substances, how much ca... Read more
CS3D: what it requires from large companies and what, as a result, their suppliers will receive. Jun 11, 2026 Laetitia Dayras The Directive (EU) 2024/1760 on corporate sustainability due diligence, known as CS3D or CSDDD, entered into force on 26 July 2024 with a phased application targeting large European and non-European c... Read more
World Environment Day 2026: a year of environmental regulations that rewrote the rules of the game. Jun 4, 2026 Francesco Pellè 5 June is World Environment Day , established by the UN in 1972. For decades, for most Italian small and medium-sized enterprises, it was a background occasion: useful for raising awareness, but dista... Read more
After climate, comes biodiversity. And the SMEs that think it doesn't concern them are making a costly miscalculation. May 21, 2026 Laetitia Dayras Climate has dominated the ESG agenda for the past decade. Carbon footprint, net zero, Scope 1-2-3: concepts that entered business vocabulary gradually but are now firmly established as standard criter... Read more
CSRD and the Omnibus Package: who is really obligated - and why SMEs cannot afford to relax. May 12, 2026 Francesco Pellè You spent months trying to figure out whether your company would fall under the obligations of the CSRD - the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive. Then, almost overnight, the rules changed... Read more
Do you have a climate transition plan? The European Commission has just published the reference tool you need to build one. May 7, 2026 Alessandro Peluso Building a credible climate transition plan is one of the most complex challenges companies face on the path to sustainability. Not for lack of willingness, but for a practical reason: it has never be... Read more
Earth Day 2026: the planet doesn't only need fewer emissions. It needs something that takes CO₂out of the air. Apr 22, 2026 Laetitia Dayras Every 22 April, for over fifty years, the world pauses to remember that we have only one planet. Earth Day was born in 1970 in the United States, when millions of people took to the streets demanding ... Read more
Scope 3: the largest part of your carbon footprint is also the one nobody really controls. Apr 16, 2026 Francesco Pellè You've measured your direct emissions. You've calculated those from purchased energy. And then you opened the Scope 3 chapter - and suddenly the perimeter multiplied. Suppliers, transport, customers, ... Read more
Sustainability reporting: which framework, what to include, where to start. A guide through the confusion. Apr 9, 2026 Francesco Pellè GRI or ESRS? CSRD or VSME? Scope 1, 2 or also 3? Single or double materiality? And then: do I already have this data, or do I need to collect it from scratch? Anyone approaching ESG reporting for the ... Read more
From 27 September 2026, "eco-friendly" is no longer enough.The ECGT Directive is now Italian law Apr 1, 2026 Laetitia Dayras Think about the last product you bought with some kind of green promise on the packaging. " Sustainable ". " Reduced impact ". " Eco-friendly ". How much did you believe it? And more to the point - di... Read more
Direct Air Capture: the technology that sucks CO₂ out of the air. But does it actually work? Mar 25, 2026 Laetitia Dayras Of all the technologies designed to remove carbon from the atmosphere, Direct Air Capture with Carbon Storage – or DACCS – comes closest to the idea of a giant CO₂ vacuum cleaner: industrial systems t... Read more
Your office is polluting even when it’s turned off. Have you ever measured how much? Mar 21, 2026 Laetitia Dayras We often talk about emissions related to transport, production and buildings. Much more rarely do we talk about those generated by digital activities — yet every company, every day, produces invisible... Read more