History: values in action | Esselunga’s social responsibility
About Esselunga’s social balance sheet drawn up in 2003, well ahead of its time. And of €300 million turnover of ecological products, equivalent to 10% of food
‘Where the world goes’ china – bucking the trend – goes in search of the ‘holy grail’ of cultured meat
We will see, I think shortly, who, between western multinationals – influenced by disappointing sales and political decisions – and China – oriented by the single party – will have been right
Global warming has resulted in one of the world’s northernmost coffee plantations in Sicily
In addition to suffering the damages of change, we must try to seize opportunities, especially in agriculture
Trump orders the felling of thousands of hectares of forests
The decision is the latest in a series of measures to dismantle the Biden administration’s policies. Objective: to reduce timber imports from Canada. Scientists and environmentalists: ‘Negative effects on climate’. Reforestation also blocked
Norway: whaling quota increased
Contrary to claims about the cultural importance of this practice, the Norwegian whaling industry faces a declining domestic demand for whale meat. A 2021 survey found that only 2 per cent of Norwegians eat whale meat (down from 4 per cent in 2019), while no one under the age of 35 said they often eat whale meat
The NutrInform Battery, Italy’s response to nutritional labelling, is a complete political and operational failure (as predicted)
In Italy, none of this has happened. And in Europe, a conflict is looming, as Carrefour has announced that it will impose the Nutri-Score on all suppliers
‘Where the world is going’: climate change redraws Europe’s wine map
Opportunities and risks of climate change in the wine world in Europe: ‘if you love the Bordeaux wines of the 1970s and 1980s, those are gone forever’
Amazonia: environmental situation – characterised by deforestation and pollution – worsened by ‘rivers of cocaine’
“Drug trafficking is increasingly linked to gold mining, timber smuggling and land theft”…. ‘an increase in violence, but also deforestation and the encroachment of indigenous lands, among other things’.
‘Greenwashing’: screening of websites reveals that half of all green claims are unsubstantiated
Drafted 8 February 2021, updated 25 February 2025 The pitfalls for consumers in packaging and labelling are many: we will…
More than half of European lakes, rivers and streams in ‘very critical’ condition
‘Water is no longer a given’
Bird flu: global spread of virus fuels fears of human contamination
In Italy, where we had prosciuttopoli, a scandal that broke out in 2019 and was never seriously tackled, absolutely nothing is happening, despite the fact that swine plague licks the borders of Langhirano (Parma), it is surprising that this is happening given that Ettore Prandini, president of Coldiretti, is a farmer. And in the USA there has been the first death of a human being
“No human technology, no matter how sophisticated, can defeat a megafire.”
In Los Angeles, we could have multiplied the number of firefighters by ten and made sure we filled the tanks that would probably have changed. People are safe, that’s the main thing, but the forest and the house are burning
