HBI Unveils the Future of Sludge Management
Zero Branco (Treviso) - In a warehouse on the outskirts of Treviso, the word “sludge” no longer means waste. On 11 September, HBI inaugurated EVA 3, the first fully industrial-scale impl...
Trentino, a Land in Balance Between Sport and Nature
Cycling among the apple blossoms of the Upper Non Valley, along the cycle path across meadows and small villages, or following the course of the Sarca River from the shores of Lake Garda, along the ...
Biophilia Summit 2026: Sensing, Belonging, Regenerating
How can stronger relationships between humans and nature create stronger people, more regenerative places and thriving communities? This is the central question of the 2026 edition of the Biophilia ...
Climate and air quality, UNEP: every dollar invested generates 15 in benefits
Climate change and air pollution are closely interconnected phenomena, yet they are almost always analysed separately. On the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, on 7 September 2026, the ...
Murat Kurum: “COP31 will deliver results: it’s not about what you want, it’s about what you do”
Trabzon - “The seas have no passports.” On the Black Sea coast in Trabzon, Murat Kurum, Turkey’s Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change and COP31 President-Design...
Getting To the Moon is Not Enough: We Have To Stay There
Giuseppe Sala teaches at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Milano and chairs the Technical-Scientific Committee of BEX – Beyond Exploration, the spa...
August 2026 was the hottest month ever recorded globally
The warning signs were clear to anyone paying attention, given the numerous consecutive heatwaves, but Copernicus data have now confirmed it: August 2026 has entered the climate record books as the ...
Plastics treaty: Cordano presents “Aid to negotiations” but disappoints science
The next informal meeting of heads of delegation on a global plastics treaty will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, from 27 to 30 September. In preparation for the meeting, INC Chair Julio Cordano pu...
The ETS review and carbon credits: how many tonnes, how many credits?
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The EU's renewed opening to international carbon credits has moved, within four months, from ...
Riccardo Fraccaro: the new forest economy with carbon credits
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Italy has 11.8 million hectares of forest, equivalent to 39% of the country’s territory...
Europe’s 250 Million-Tonne CDR Market Will Not Be for Everyone
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The European Commission has proposed auctioning 250 million additional EU Emissions Trad...
International credits in the ETS: the Commission moves forward, the Parliament is divided
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter On 17 July 2026, the European Commission issued a legislative proposal to overhaul the EU ETS...
What if perfect circularity came from space
In orbit, nothing is wasted. Every gram of material loaded before launch has a weight, a cost and an already planned second life. On the International Space Station, most of the water – includ...
From aid to compensation: Nepal is changing the language of the climate crisis
There is one word that Nepal’s Foreign Minister Shisir Khanal has stopped using, replaced by a different one. The first is aid. The second is compensation. The speech refers to the disast...
Bioenergy and bioeconomy: the second IBBC edition comes to Seville
The second edition of the International Conference on Bioenergy & Bioeconomy (IBBC 2026) will take place from 28 to 30 October 2026 at the University of Seville. The event is organised by the In...
UNEP: The 1.5°C threshold will be exceeded, but global warming can still be limited
Global temperatures are likely to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels within the next few years, according to a new UNEP report, Limiting Overshoot, published today, 2 September. The t...
Startup, NoPalm Ingredients: an alternative to palm oil
NoPalm Ingredients is a Dutch startup based in Wageningen that produces oils and fats by fermenting by-products from the food industry, offering a sustainable, local and scalable alternative to palm...
Rangelands at the centre, communities at the margins: taking stock of COP17
Twelve days of negotiations, 196 Parties, and more than 110,000 people attending across the Blue Zone and Green Zone. In the end, COP17 on combating desertification, held in Ulaanbaatar, one of the ...
Fluidtech Expo, the technology that moves water: interview with Mauro Delle Fratte
Along the journey of water − and many other fluids − are pumps, valves, pipes, sensors and control systems. All are crucial technologies for energy efficiency, industrial sustainability ...
Climate Crisis Rocks the Water Tower of Asia
In Sanskrit, the name Himalaya means “abode of snow and ice”. Unreachable and eternal, the glaciers of the Earth's tallest mountains were also considered to be the dwelling place of all ...