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Everything you need to know about COP28, spelled out by a veteran of climate negotiations

Everything you need to know about COP28, spelled out by a veteran of climate negotiations

The Pope's COP28, the oilmen's COP28, the last COP to save the goal of 1.5° C, the COP of adaptation, the COP28 of failure and hope. There are many interpretations, almost divinatory, to be made...

Lavazza Introduces the First Circular Transition Centre for Coffee

Lavazza Introduces the First Circular Transition Centre for Coffee

The time has come for the coffee sector to finally become circular, and the right synergies are needed to accelerate the transition. This is the focus of the new Centre for Circular Economy in ...

Startup: umbrellas and eyeglasses, a second life for cigarette butts

Startup: umbrellas and eyeglasses, a second life for cigarette butts

Re-Cig is a company that operates in seventeen of Italy’s twenty regions for the collection and recovery of cigarette stubs. Based in Rovereto (Trento), at the Progetto Manifattura hub, Re-Cig...

Automotive, Stellantis focuses on circular economy with a new hub in Turin

Automotive, Stellantis focuses on circular economy with a new hub in Turin

The Stellantis Group has decided to focus on circularity. They announced it a year ago, and the official ribbon-cutting day came on November 23. The first hub in Europe dedicated to the automotive c...

EPR for automotive? Design Them Better!

EPR for automotive? Design Them Better!

After months of debate and heated discussions on fuels – diesel, petrol and e-fuel – something new is emerging in the automotive sector. “Better designs” is the indicati...

Global plastics treaty, third round of negotiations closes without agreement

Global plastics treaty, third round of negotiations closes without agreement

The third round of negotiations for a Global Plastics Treaty (INC-3) ended on the evening of Sunday, Nov. 19 without agreement on how to move forward. The INC Secretariat was mandated to draft ...

Startup: ShareWares Revolutionizes EPR Starting with Takeaway Cups

Startup: ShareWares Revolutionizes EPR Starting with Takeaway Cups

ShareWares is a pioneering company in the field of extended producer responsibility, which promotes the concept of shared property and facilitates the reuse and redistribution of products. The ...

Building a Wood Construction Culture in Italy with ARCA

Building a Wood Construction Culture in Italy with ARCA

Health, energy efficiency, sustainability, beauty. The advantages of wood construction are well known, and, with the development of new building technologies and constant materials research, they ar...

Global plastics treaty negotiations, more lobbyists than G7 delegates

Global plastics treaty negotiations, more lobbyists than G7 delegates

An analysis of the participants present at the third round of negotiations (INC-3) for the global plastics treaty found that the number of lobbyists related to the fossil fuel and chemical industrie...

Startup, The Knotty Ones: sustainable knitwear that helps women

Startup, The Knotty Ones: sustainable knitwear that helps women

The Knotty Ones is a sustainable clothing brand deeply rooted in Baltic culture and Lithuanian knitting traditions, committed to eco-friendly practices and using natural materials. Based in Vilnius,...

Global plastics treaty, Iran surprisingly announces new coalition

Global plastics treaty, Iran surprisingly announces new coalition

The third and penultimate round of intergovernmental negotiations (INC-3) for an Internationally legally binding instrument (ILBI) on plastic pollution that is expected to be ready for ratifica...

Man and Forests: It's All a Matter of Timescale

Man and Forests: It's All a Matter of Timescale

Time, complexity, resilience. These are the three key concepts on which the health and survival of any forest ecosystem is based. Three interrelated characteristics in a tight cause-and-effect chain...

Energy from Biomass? Yes, but Wisely

Energy from Biomass? Yes, but Wisely

If we look at the scenario of a zero-emission Europe in 2050, and study the various strategies to get there, forest and agricultural biomass are one of the most debated and divisive energy sour...

CIAL, Circular Responsibility for Aluminium

CIAL, Circular Responsibility for Aluminium

Indestructible, easy to collect and fully recyclable. Aluminium can be reused indefinitely and is suitable for multiple purposes such as mobility, construction, and food&beverage. Characteristic...

Startup, Pesky Fish: The Catch of the Day without Intermediaries, against Waste and Bycatch

Startup, Pesky Fish: The Catch of the Day without Intermediaries, against Waste and Bycatch

The United Kingdom, an island with over 19,000 miles of coastline, exports 73% of the fish it catches but imports 80% of the fish it consumes. This paradox drove Ben King and Aiden Berry to establis...

What are the Italian Government's priorities for the circular economy? Interview with Vice Minister Vannia Gava

What are the Italian Government's priorities for the circular economy? Interview with Vice Minister Vannia Gava

The Ministry of Environment and Energy Security will take part in the 26th edition of Ecomondo, a leading international event on green transition policies and solutions for the green and circular ec...

Global Plastics Treaty: the scientists' response to the zero draft

Global Plastics Treaty: the scientists' response to the zero draft

The zero draft of the Global Plastic Treaty released in early September offers a wide range of options, some of which have the potential to result in an effective legally binding instrument to ...

Full steam ahead for the EU Blue Deal

Full steam ahead for the EU Blue Deal

*from Brussels The European proposal for an EU Blue Deal picks up speed. On October 26, 2023, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), in a packed room at the Charlemagne Building in...

Startup: Regenerative Aquaculture and Certified Seafood Delivery with Seatopia

Startup: Regenerative Aquaculture and Certified Seafood Delivery with Seatopia

“Aquaculture has great potential for the production of healthy seafood in an environment where feed quality and exposure to toxins can be controlled. If done well, this system makes it po...

World Energy Outlook: global demand for coal, oil and gas will peak by 2030

World Energy Outlook: global demand for coal, oil and gas will peak by 2030

Peak emissions from fossil fuels could be reached by 2025, with the contribution to global energy supply falling to 73 percent by 2030, after for decades it had been stuck well above 80 percent...