Carbon farming originated in the fields. That is where, in recent years, an idea that agricultural soil can become an active ally in mitigating climate change has taken root: through targeted agrono...
Cities account for less than 3% of the Earth’s surface, and yet they are responsible for over 70% of global CO₂ emissions. For decades, this imbalance has fuelled an uncomfortable narrative:...
Despite the current period of great international instability, Europe now holds a unique position: it is the continent that has produced the most ambitious regulatory framework for the ecological tr...
When we speak of carbon farming, the collective imagination instinctively conjures up images of agricultural expanses, farmland and pastures. Yet there is a less explored – and in some ways mo...
The carbon market is experiencing a crisis of legitimacy. Years of inconsistency in standards, conflicts of interest between developers and certifiers, and inadequate MRV systems have eroded trust i...
The wood-furniture supply chain is one of the pillars of the Italian industrial system, with a positive trade surplus of €7.9 billion. The sector employs almost 300,000 people and counts over 6...
When the luxury world comes up with ideas, designs spaces and shapes concepts, the aim is often to flaunt, fascinate and impress. The risk, however, is that when evaluating a luxury project, only ec...
When we open a bottle of wine, often the cork is abandoned on the table and then ends up directly in the unsorted waste bag. As a result, an average of 800 million corks are thrown away every year i...
Extended producer responsibility (EPR), a cornerstone of the circular economy, places the onus on producers to financially support waste treatment and recovery systems, aimed at promoting product re...
Our world population consumes 110 billion tonnes of materials a year and wastes over 90 percent of them. Only 7.2 percent of those materials make it back into our economy and, according to the Circu...
MagREEsource is a French startup that, thanks to its hydrogen-based magnet recycling process, is contributing to reducing the carbon footprint of the green energy industry and guaranteeing Europe’...
The Ventotene Manifesto, penned by Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi, two of modern Europe’s founding fathers, and the Paneuropa document, written by Richard Nikolaus of Coudenhove-Kalergi, defin...
The hunt for critical metals, more than for any other resource in human history, is breaking down limits and reaching previously unthinkable frontiers. So, while some are looking toward space, effor...
The digital platform created by the Dutch startup geoFluxus presents itself as a waste forecasting consultancy. Through resource mapping and digital analysis tools, it tracks the journey of waste fr...
Byborre, a textiles innovator based in Amsterdam, combines technology and craftsmanship to create a future-proof textile industry. Working at the frontiers of material development, functionality and...
The EU Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference, the most important summit on the circular economy in Europe, has now reached its 6th edition. On 27 and 28 February, 500 policymakers, analysts, trade...
The sixth edition of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference opens today, Monday 27th February. We asked Cillian Lohan, Vice-President of the EESC and promoter of the initiative, how fa...
The Italian Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), as other national promotional institutions, is a driver of sustainable growth and the circular transition in a way that is “additional and complementar...
Digital technologies play a crucial role in the transition to a circular economy. Specifically, the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart products connected to it are a crucial enabler of the circular ...
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...