Gruppo CAP: Decarbonising the Water Sector
For a long time, the integrated water sector was considered naturally sustainable due to its intrinsic relationship with water as an element. This approach, however, is a thing of the past, especial...
FIWARE Global Summit: the tenth edition is about to start
On September 18 and 19, 2024, the FIWARE Global Summit, one of the leading business and open-source technology conferences, will be held. It will be convened by the FIWARE Foundation in collabo...
Kamala Harris, a candidate for climate?
The endorsement for Vice President Kamala Harris is growing by the hour, now that she has become the de facto Democratic nominee for U.S. president in place of Joe Biden, following his announce...
Hera Group’s Solutions for Circular Decarbonisation
EU climate targets require businesses to undertake rather complex industrial decarbonisation. This radical transformation in the way companies manufacture products and consume energy necessitates th...
China, Third Plenum: Xi promises modernization by 2029, but glosses over domestic crisis
“Further deepening the broad effort on reforms and promoting Chinese-style modernization.” All by 2029, the year in which the People's Republic will celebrate its 80th anniversary. This ...
Drought in Sicily: what’s happening?
Livestocks drink mud, lakes dry up, grain and forage harvests are down to zero. These are the shocking images coming recently from Sicily, in the midst of a drought emergency. These hardships a...
ITLOS: States have a legal obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On the 21st of May 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advis...
Penelope's Lesson
After re-reading the myth of Penelope’s web, it is possible to find much more than a simple ruse to cheat the suitors, but a symbol of the reversibility and circularity of processes. Everything ca...
Bioeconomy: The Virtuous Cooperation between National Cluster and Regions
A national platform to promote a model of circular economy focussed on innovative, integrated and multisector value-chains: this is how the Italian National Technological Cluster of Green Chemistry ...
Rockström, 'Biomaterials: A Viable Alternative to Fossil Fuels'
Our ecological footprint surpasses the Earth’s absorption capacity. One of the less known elements of the planetary equation is the impact of the extraction of many raw materials.&nb...