What is the point of a ranking of how happy the various countries of the world are? I ask myself this question on March 20, the tenth World Day of Happiness established by the United Nations.
The international investigation conducted by Follow The Money, Il Sole 24 Ore, and Irpi Media revealed what many feared but few dared to denounce: ESG indices, originally created to guide responsible investments, have been emptied of meaning, bent to the logic of power and geopolitics, reduced to mere window-dressing labels.