Culligan inaugurates its new Italian headquarters in Bologna

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water On Tuesday 3 December, Culligan, th...

World Soil Day, the “indissoluble” link with water

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water In the last years, on 5 December, W...

Startup, CarbonFly: less emissions with sustainable aviation fuel

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano CarbonFly is the first Book & Claim platform that uses blockchain technology to enable airline...

COP16 Desertification, UNCCD and JRC publish World Drought Atlas

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water Record droughts are becoming t...

Global plastics treaty, INC-5 closes without agreement and is postponed to 2025

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano At 2.50 a.m. of Monday, 2 December in Busan, South Korea, the fifth round of negotiations (INC-5) ...

COP16 Desertification, the negotiations on soil protection are underway

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Approximately 15 million km² of land − an area larger than Antarctica − has alrea...

Bhopal, the disaster in India continues after 40 years

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Rehana Bi is a 55-year-old Indian woman. When she was 16, she tells radio station Npr, she was str...

Textile and Chemical Industries at Ecomondo

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From printing inks and dyes to fabric treatment, from synthetic fibres to whitening agents, from f...

COP16 Biodiversity, Countries to Resume Crucial Discussions in Italy in February 2025

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The UN Biodiversity Conference suspended earlier this year in Cali, Colombia, will reconvene ...

Pesticides, Europe uses “guidelines written by the chemical industry”

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In the last 22 years EU officials have failed to stop any single pesticide, despite laws supposed ...

Startup, Farzati: digital, secure, and transparent traceability with BluDev

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Farzati SPA has developed and is deploying its BluDev technology alongside proprietary IoT solutio...

COP29, a half success for the climate finance negotiation

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - The target is 1.3 trillion dollars a year by 2035 to help developing countries mitigat...

Global plastics treaty: is a weak agreement better than none at all?

This article is available also in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The fifth and final round of negotiations (INC-5) for a Global Plastics Treaty begins today, Novem...

Suriname and Guyana, when climate adaptation requires oil money

This article is also available in Italian / Qusto articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - Marciano Dasai is the environment minister of Suriname, a small Caribbean country ...

COP29, WAP: “Our food system is unfair and unsustainable”

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The global food system is unsustainable and inequitable, relying heavily on meat production throug...

Italian Climate Fund: how Italy is really contributing

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - Negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) − the post-2025 f...

Startup, CrioPura: water purification with macroporous polymeric hydrogels

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano CrioPura is a project created by a team of researchers at the Italian CNR (National Research Counc...

An inconvenient Mediterranean truth: Rising tides and sinking futures

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The word “Mediterranean” evokes images of idyllic sun-soaked beaches and waters of var...

COP Troika increases fossil fuels production despite promises

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano At COP28 in Dubai, all delegations agreed on the phrase “transitioning away”, calling ...

A dual energy dependence between Azerbaijan and Italy: ECCO's case study

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Azerbaijan, the host country of the COP29 climate conference in Baku, is certainly not a positive ...

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