The aid of new technologies should not be driven only towards business policies and market strategies. Tools such as Artificial Intelligence can represent a "turning point", even in the field of energy saving, in solving problems such as global warming, to the point that Larry Fink, president and CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest investment company, has made companies aware that investors, today, expect full disclosure of the performance of companies, on a range of environmental, social and governance factors. By Raffaella Aghemo