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The climate crisis exacerbates inequalities, especially for women and girls

The climate crisis exacerbates inequalities, especially for women and girls

Walking for hours in the sun to fetch water. Giving birth without medical assistance because the clinic is unreachable after a flood. Giving up contraception as it is too expensive, while the family...

From offshore to onshore: Europe expands carbon storage with nature-inspired tech

From offshore to onshore: Europe expands carbon storage with nature-inspired tech

For the first time, Europe will bury its carbon not beneath the sea, but under its own soil, heralding a new chapter in the continent’s fight against climate change. On 30 April 2025, the EU i...

The gender gap in STEM persists, but the transition needs female talent

The gender gap in STEM persists, but the transition needs female talent

That science is not a woman’s business is an old cliché, increasingly disproved nowadays by new strands of historiography that restore brilliant female researchers and inventors of the ...

AgriZone, the agribusiness challenge at COP30

AgriZone, the agribusiness challenge at COP30

From Belém - Formally, it is supposed to be a space dedicated to sustainable agriculture and technological innovation. In reality, it welcomes and gives a voice to all Brazilian and internati...

Climate finance at COP30: how to leverage $1.3 trillion by 2035

Climate finance at COP30: how to leverage $1.3 trillion by 2035

During the climate summit in Brazil, the focus shifted back to climate finance: without adequate resources, making progress on adaptation, mitigation and combating global warming is difficult, parti...

The large skills gap in Italy's transition

The large skills gap in Italy's transition

Italy may be speaking about innovation, but its training programmes remain inadequate and poorly designed. According to the eLearning Maturity Report 2025 published by the Politecnico di Milano...

Startup, SurplusMap: Making Electric Charging in Europe More Sustainable

Startup, SurplusMap: Making Electric Charging in Europe More Sustainable

SurplusMap designs smarter, more sustainable charging infrastructure. Founded by Luis de Ita Maubant and Reiner van Gageldonk, the Norwegian startup has developed a platform that combines big data, ...

Ukraine, a Top-Secret Reconstruction

Ukraine, a Top-Secret Reconstruction

The pot is large. In fact, huge: 524 billion dollars. Roughly equivalent to the GDP of the United Arab Emirates. According to the World Bank, this is the cost of rebuilding Ukraine over the next dec...

Water crisis: the subtle rise of managed aquifer recharge

Water crisis: the subtle rise of managed aquifer recharge

They allow water to be stored in its most precious reservoir, the subsoil, with lower environmental impacts and costs than surface aquifers. Yet, for decades, managed aquifer recharge (MAR) tec...

COP30, climate change and forced migration in Latin America

COP30, climate change and forced migration in Latin America

Climate change not only destroys territories and ecosystems — it deepens historical inequalities and forces millions of people to move. In Latin America and the Caribbean, where structural pov...

Turning water from a problem into a resource: the challenge of sustainable cities

Turning water from a problem into a resource: the challenge of sustainable cities

To counter climate change, we must rethink the way we design and experience our cities: public health, the environment, urban planning and innovation must converge in a single “One Health&rdqu...

Tropical Forest Forever Fund: the controversial Brazilian project at the core of COP30

Tropical Forest Forever Fund: the controversial Brazilian project at the core of COP30

It is Lula's crowning achievement, his political legacy for the Amazon: a mega forest fund, the first of its kind, superior to any previous initiative, including the REDD+ carbon credit mechanism. I...

Water at the heart of COP30: what to expect after the Baku turning point

Water at the heart of COP30: what to expect after the Baku turning point

Within the global debate on the climate crisis, water represents a central paradox. According to experts, it is the element through which approximately 70% of the impacts of climate change manifest ...

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plans to combat climate change

New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plans to combat climate change

As of November 4, 2025, New York City voters elected Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic Socialist, as the city’s next mayor. Mamdani’s victory – along with Democratic ga...

How Green Is the New Silk Road?

How Green Is the New Silk Road?

It was back in 2013 that Xi Jinping first announced his vision of an “economic belt along the Silk Road” during a visit to Kazakhstan. What later became known as the Belt and Road Initia...

EU competitiveness: the call for flexibility opens the door to fossil fuels

EU competitiveness: the call for flexibility opens the door to fossil fuels

Industrial transition is accelerating in Europe, but not all engines are running at the same speed. During the Competitiveness Council meeting in Brussels in early October, Italy forged an alliance ...

The biomethane challenge: limitations and opportunities of the European strategy

The biomethane challenge: limitations and opportunities of the European strategy

Thirty-five billion cubic metres of biomethane per year by 2030. That is the goal Europe has set with the REPowerEU plan, the major project launched in 2022 to reduce dependence on Russian gas and a...

The US government shut down: this is why it matters

The US government shut down: this is why it matters

The United States government shutdown is leading to more pollution and announcements of clean energy project cuts. Beginning on October 1, the US federal government ceased all activity after the Rep...

Startup, ENDOless: Artificial Intelligence and Data to Treat Endometriosis

Startup, ENDOless: Artificial Intelligence and Data to Treat Endometriosis

“I spent years battling exhaustion, brain fog, and chronic pain. Doctors ignored it, colleagues didn't get it. Until I finally left corporate life and created a platform where women's pain is ...

Asbestos, thousands of schools contaminated: Italy is lagging behind in removal

Asbestos, thousands of schools contaminated: Italy is lagging behind in removal

The bell doesn't ring. Doors are closed and classrooms are empty, not because of a strike or technical malfunction, but because of asbestos lurking in the floors. This happened at the Tasso Institut...