The New Corporate Sustainability Reporting
The regulation and related standards will affect a huge range of companies along with their supply chains. In fact, according to the so-called "principle of double materiality", not only the impacts on the environment and people caused by the company's activities will have to be considered (as companies already did in compliance with the previous directive, the Non-Financial Directive[6]), but also the opposite: companies will have to report information on how the external environment, or people, impact their business, generating economic repercussions. In addition to this, information must be reported regarding the corporate sustainability strategy, consisting of programs, and related objectives, on sustainability issues that can then be assessed through specific metrics. This change marks the end of statements made solely for public relations purposes: maintaining an impeccable human rights record will be just as crucial as having a perfect balance sheet.
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Is the US breaking international law in space?
“[..] spacewalks. SpaceX is now the only private company that delivers humans to live and work in space, and NASA, the space agency of the United States, relies on it. Polaris Dawn is not a NASA mission, and it is not regulated by the US government. So, when its astronauts exit their capsule and ‘walk’ in space, it will mark a massive first for the private industry that is starting to dominate realms beyond Earth. And this raises a question: Is the US breaking a law regarding space operations?”
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Technological advancement stimulates the development of China's commercial space industry
Last weekend, at 5:07 pm on December 10, 2023, China's SQX-2Y commercial reusable rocket completed its second test flight at the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, marking the first reuse of a rocket story in China.
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BRICS: A new multilateralism between heaven and Earth?
[..] Speaking of the potential of BRICS countries, the space aspect is often overlooked. In total, there are around 80 space agencies in the world, including all BRICS countries. However, only nine agencies are capable of producing space launchers, including Russia, India, and China. Only three states in the world have conducted human spaceflights: Russia, China, and the United States. Furthermore, these countries have or have had their own orbital stations.
As we can see, BRICS brings together not only members with high potential in the space industry but also space leaders.
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The spaceport dilemma for Starship
[..] SpaceX's Starship spacecraft atop Super Heavy first stage booster is the tallest and most powerful rocket ever flown, with twice the thrust of the American-developed Saturn V launch vehicle in the 1960s, and even more powerful than the N1 /L3 conceived by the Soviets in the same period, whose first stage was the most powerful stage of a rocket ever flown for over 50 years, generating 45.4 MN of thrust. By comparison, SpaceX's Starship generated 75.9 MN thrust. Curiously, each of the four attempts to launch an N1 failed, with the second attempt resulting in the vehicle crashing onto the launch pad shortly after liftoff. Considering how SpaceX is considering a hole in its launch pad and not the entire destruction of its spaceport helps put into perspective the engineering difficulty of launching an integrated rocket of that size, and the success of having lifted off and flown a vehicle that reached an altitude that in fifty years no one had ever tried to pass or even reach.
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There, where everything began
[..] Putting in space the *James Webb Space Telescope* will represent a huge paradigm shift for humanity, a great moment of introspection.
As the most widespread, anomalous, powerful, and formidable animal species the Earth has ever produced, we face enormous challenges, such as our relationship with Earth and contradictions. We look out into the cosmos with curiosity, hoping that other intelligent life forms exist.
However, on Earth, we have not always been alone.
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