US, the Mad Crusade Against ESG
“ESG is just a load of crap.” Sitting next to me in a Starbucks at 99 Wall Street, two 30-somethings, one in a blue BrookBrothers suit, the other in black Armani, bitterly comment on Wal...
Kamala Harris is ready to push forward the Inflation Reduction Act
The American clean energy sector has a new champion, the presidential candidate, Kamala Harris. Yet the issue of electric car and solar panels divide very much the country in two distinctive fields....
COP16 Desertification, interview with Alain-Richard Donwahi
Desertification is one of the main drivers of migration and food crises. Along with the UN negotiating processes on Climate (UNFCCC) and Biodiversity (CBD), since 1992 there has been a dedicated tra...
Piano Mattei: the three-card trick at the expense of climate, Africa and Italy
This week, Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee is examining the Mattei Plan (Piano Mattei), the government's strategic framework for Italian African relations. The document, as received by parlia...
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...
Pushing the Mountains Away
"Mountains are mute teachers and make silent disciples," said Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, explaining in one sentence the intimate nature of the highlands and its people. Fragile giants, distant land...
E.ON: How Energy Service Companies Can Become Community Organisers
In the age of the green transition, the core business of Energy Service Companies is expanding. Created to provide energy services and offer solutions for efficiency and usage management, some of th...
Lanza (FEEM): “Mitigation and adaptation are key to the next EU Commission”
What impact will the new Parliament and EU Commission have on the Green Deal? This is the question that companies, finance, and analysts have been asking themselves for days, amidst the tense politi...
European elections: the strengthening of nationalism, the downsizing of the ecologists
The European election night sent shockwaves through many capitals, producing unexpected political outcomes: from the dissolution of the French parliament sought by Emmanuel Macron and the fall of Al...
Renewable, Circular Energy Thanks to Biomethane from Landfills
In countries with highly developed networks, such as the U.S.A., Italy, Japan, and Germany, it is best to promote the consumption of alternative fuels on existing networks in support of strong elect...
Bernabei, CEO Enel Green Power: 10 GW of renewables and stop coal by 2027
Enel Green Power continues its drive toward an increasingly renewable mix within the Enel Group, one of the world's leading electricity producers. Renewable energy sources now account for 68.6 perce...
Electro! Shock!
Triple renewable energy and double energy efficiency by the end of the decade: this is the core of the global energy industrial plan adopted by 196 nations last December at COP28 in Dubai, at the he...
Circularity 24, circular economy brings together USA and UE: interview with Jon Smieja
The American circular economy will take center stage at Circularity 24, which will be held May 22-24 in Chicago, USA. We discussed themes, speakers, and objectives of the event with Jon Smieja, VP o...
CONOU, an Example of a Consortium Economic Model
“From an operational perspective, 2023 was even better than the previous year. We will publish the data soon, but so far, we are happy with the trends. High-quality collection is constantly im...
Ecomondo Mexico, circular economy waiting to be built
(Guadalajara) There is a need for circular economy in Mexico. Among the 12,500 registered visitors at Solar + Storage y Ecomondo México in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, the interest in EP...
The shadow of consulting firms (and Tony Blair) on climate negotiations
The government of Azerbaijan seeks help for COP29. In recent weeks, proposals to collaborate with the government of Baku in managing the 29th UN climate conference, to be held in November in Azerbai...
Tomra separates food-grade plastic from non-food-grade plastic with deep learning
* from Koblenz An intelligence capable of making decisions within milliseconds, based on information learned gradually over time, improving day by day the ability to distinguish a waste. Th...
Nature Restoration Law stalled again: Italy among opponents
It appeared that the Nature Restoration Law, a key piece of the Green Deal, was a done deal. Yet a minority of EU members, including Italy and Hungary, once again prevented the adoption of legi...
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Welcome to Post-Capitalism
Chico Mendes, a Brazilian trade unionist and environmentalist, is often credited with the phrase that “environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.” In a world where the ri...