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Startup: Regenerative Poultry Systems, the poultry sector in transition thanks to indigenous knowledge

Startup: Regenerative Poultry Systems, the poultry sector in transition thanks to indigenous knowledge

Regenerative Poultry Systems is the US-based company that aims to facilitate the poultry industry's transition to a regenerative farming model, based on the proven ancestral system focused on return...

What the end of COVID-zero means for clean energy technologies

What the end of COVID-zero means for clean energy technologies

China is ending COVID-zero. At its heart, the reasoning behind the decision is economic. China spent decades making itself a critical link in global supply chains, and disruptions cascading from COV...

Startup: clean water and energy from wastewater with Wase

Startup: clean water and energy from wastewater with Wase

London-based startup Wase has developed a method to treat even the most difficult waste, allowing it to manage wastewater, food waste, and agricultural waste to produce electricity and recover water...

Extractivism: Sooner or Later, Everything Becomes Critical

Extractivism: Sooner or Later, Everything Becomes Critical

The process of decarbonisation and electrification of the economy requires increasing quantities of metals and minerals. Some of these, due to their economic importance and the risks linked to their...

A new EU industrial plan for the net-zero age

A new EU industrial plan for the net-zero age

This week, the European Commission published the Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age. This is the EU’s first move in response to US President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction ...

Low-tech Economy is Needed to Overcome Scarcity

Low-tech Economy is Needed to Overcome Scarcity

Are there enough resources and raw materials to meet the ecological transition? Does innovation and technological development help or can they be a hindrance? Are there alternatives to high-tech? Re...

Circularity Gap Report 2023: here’s why global circularity has dropped to 7.2%

Circularity Gap Report 2023: here’s why global circularity has dropped to 7.2%

“The global economy is now only 7.2 percent circular; and it’s getting worse year on year, driven by rising material extraction and use”. This is how the Circularity Gap Report 2023 opens, wit...

Circular Washing: How to Recognise it to Avoid it

Circular Washing: How to Recognise it to Avoid it

The greenwashing road is paved with good intentions, while that of circular washing – its latest and more treacherous evolution – is full of superficiality and inexperience. Yet, like never befo...

Ecodesign for sustainable products: what will change for consumers and businesses?

Ecodesign for sustainable products: what will change for consumers and businesses?

In March 2022, the European Commission published proposals to extend the scope of eco-design regulations to all physical products on the EU market. The new regulations will – most likely – touch...

What are Digital Twins and how they can help sustainability

What are Digital Twins and how they can help sustainability

Creating digital models of real systems – Digital Twins - can help reduce energy and water consumption and enable new, low-impact business models.The first example dates back to 1970, when Steve J...

This collective wants to fix the beauty industry's packaging problem

This collective wants to fix the beauty industry's packaging problem

No recycled content. No take-back program. Destined for landfill, incineration or (worse yet) the environment. This probably doesn’t sound to you like a recipe for success in sustainability. It di...

Specific codes for the biobased industries are fundamental to fully exploit the circular bioeconomy potential

Specific codes for the biobased industries are fundamental to fully exploit the circular bioeconomy potential

“The recognition of our sector through the application of specific NACE codes is an important element as it would allow a better measurement in the statistical field and the possibility of address...

COP15: historic biodiversity agreement reached in Montreal

COP15: historic biodiversity agreement reached in Montreal

To protect 30% of land, oceans, coastal areas, and waterbodies on Earth. To reduce governmental subsidies that are harmful to nature by 500 billion dollars per year. To expand the rights of indigeno...

Coal-to-biomass transition fuels deforestation in Indonesia

Coal-to-biomass transition fuels deforestation in Indonesia

Indonesia‘s efforts to reduce its reliance on coal are likely to produce increased deforestation according to a study by environmental think tank Trend Asia. The goal – to scale back the burden ...

How to Communicate about the Circular Economy

How to Communicate about the Circular Economy

From technical model for connoisseurs to (almost) mainstream idea: in a little over a decade, the narrative of the circular economy has experienced massive evolution. But what are the current tools,...

Global Plastic Treaty: the first round of negotiations opens in Uruguay

Global Plastic Treaty: the first round of negotiations opens in Uruguay

The first round of negotiations for the adoption of a global treaty on plastic opens in Uruguay. From 28 November to 2 December 2022, in Punta del Este, the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (...

 COP27: historic agreement on Loss&Damage, but the departure from fossil fuels is still far away

COP27: historic agreement on Loss&Damage, but the departure from fossil fuels is still far away

COP27, the 27th U.N. negotiation of the Conference of the Parties in Sharm el-Sheikh, ended at 7 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 20, with one of the worst results ever in terms of timing, second only to the fa...

COP27, how biodiversity can help climate. And vice versa

COP27, how biodiversity can help climate. And vice versa

Wednesday, November 16 was Biodiversity day at COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh. The fact that nature is an important ally of decarbonization is common knowledge among experts: the absorption of CO2 by plan...

COP27, farmers demand funds for food security

COP27, farmers demand funds for food security

Fires, floods, desertification and prolonged droughts. These are all extreme weather events that threaten the food security of the entire planet. Therefore, funds and adaptation measures are urgentl...

COP27: UN's 10 recommendations against climate greenwashing

COP27: UN's 10 recommendations against climate greenwashing

“The COPs are mainly used as an opportunity for leaders and people in power to get attention, using many different kinds of greenwashing.” Despite being almost 20 years old now, Greta Thunberg h...

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