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Gender equality: the Trentino model balancing welfare, education and transparency

Gender equality: the Trentino model balancing welfare, education and transparency

Achieving the UNI/PdR 125:2022 certification on gender equality means not only meeting a set of requirements, measured through specific KPIs, but above all promoting a corporate culture capable of s...

Attack on Venezuela: how did China react?

Attack on Venezuela: how did China react?

“It was a friendly meeting, reaffirming the strong bonds of friendship between China and Venezuela. In good and bad times!” The last words posted on Nicolas Maduro's social media profile...

Startup, Loki: AI to Reduce Road Maintenance Costs

Startup, Loki: AI to Reduce Road Maintenance Costs

Founded in December 2023 in San Sebastiano da Po, in the Province of Turin, Loki has developed Asfalto Sicuro (Safe Asphalt), a hardware and software platform for the predictive monitoring of road s...

The 12 most read Renewable Matter articles of 2025

The 12 most read Renewable Matter articles of 2025

As 2025 draws to a close, it is increasingly clear that this has been a year of transition, marked by overlapping crises, geopolitical uncertainty and structural shifts in the global economy. Climat...

Gen-Z, tariffs and elections: 2025 seen through Asia

Gen-Z, tariffs and elections: 2025 seen through Asia

While, contrary to popular belief, the famous Chinese anathema ‘May you live in interesting times’ is not Chinese at all, 2025 has certainly been a decidedly “interesting” ye...

Amidst agreements and blockades: the 2025 review for the ocean

Amidst agreements and blockades: the 2025 review for the ocean

The ocean, which supplies humankind with fundamental ecosystem services, from fishing to climate regulation, is increasingly central to international debates. The year 2025 has witnessed mixed resul...

9 books to read on Christmas 2025 to envision the future

9 books to read on Christmas 2025 to envision the future

The final weeks of the year are a time of suspension, allowing, for those who can afford it, to slow down the pace, open up room for reflection, and go back to the essential questions. It is also th...

Startup: Battery Swapping and Cold Chain Infrastructure with Kenya's E-Safiri

Startup: Battery Swapping and Cold Chain Infrastructure with Kenya's E-Safiri

E-Safiri develops mobility infrastructure and electric vehicle battery replacement networks, offering public and private charging options, as well as refrigerated storage solutions. Recognised as an...

Gender equality: Italy is lagging behind. Vision and strategy necessary, not least for a fairer transition

Gender equality: Italy is lagging behind. Vision and strategy necessary, not least for a fairer transition

Gender equality will take 134 years to achieve. Five generations. This is not a catastrophic prediction, but rather the estimate of the Global Gender Gap Report 2024, which photographs a slowdown in...

The law and the rights of indigenous peoples that Brazil pretends not to see

The law and the rights of indigenous peoples that Brazil pretends not to see

From Belém - In Brazil, there exists a very clear legal right, ratified over thirty years ago in an international treaty: the Consulta Previa Livre e Informada (CLPI). It stipulates that...

Myro Bot Is Changing Internal Wall Painting on Construction Sites

Myro Bot Is Changing Internal Wall Painting on Construction Sites

Myro is one of the world's first internal wall painting robots, the result of research by Myro International, a subsidiary of Mojay Global Holding. To combat labour scarcity, help meet deadlines, an...

Building an African Early Warning System “from the ground up”

Building an African Early Warning System “from the ground up”

In 2018, only 40 percent of Africa’s population had access to Early Warning Systems (EWS), resulting in poor advance notice to hazards from natural phenomena, and thus to greater losses. Howev...

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...