Giorgio Kaldor

As environmental journalist, Giorgio Kaldor focuses on water resources and the social impacts of ecological transition.

ECESP annual conference 2025: what does a competitive circular economy mean?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Bruxelles - “Circularity is more than a plan: it's a destination. The EU stands wi...

Codognola (Itelyum): “EU should introduce single energy price for strategic projects”

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano There is no point in denying the evidence. The Green Deal was losing its appeal, caught between po...

Water Resilience Strategy EU: grand promises, no obligations

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Bruxelles - A 10% water efficiency target by 2030, but it’s not binding. No new legisla...

The US closes its climate disaster database and enters hurricane season unprepared

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Would you turn off your thermometer in the middle of a fever? That is what is happening in the Uni...

A decade of hydropower in the Balkans

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano There are currently 3,188 planned hydropower projects across the Balkans, with around a hundred un...

Wastewater Directive: the race for circular biorefineries is on

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The revision of the EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (2024/3019) sets increasingly ambitiou...

Latin America’s largest solar power plant with battery storage inaugurated in Chile

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano There is a place in Chile’s Atacama Desert where the power of the sun never seems to set. It...

Aquatech 2025, Hardeman: “The scale of water challenges is underestimated”

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Amsterdam – In early March, water and technology took centre stage as Aquatech 2025 transfor...

India-Bangladesh dispute over the Teesta River. Menga: a crisis for international law

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Last February, Bangladesh saw protests over a long-standing dispute with India over the exploitati...

Omnibus Package: does the EU still have sufficient power to enforce its vision?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On the 26th of February, the European Commission will unveil the much-debated Omnibus Package, an ...

Green Deal, where are we at? The JRC study

This article is also available in Italian / questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Since EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled the Competitiveness Compass, discussio...

CBAM, Commissioner Hoekstra announces exemptions for 80% of EU companies

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Following the increasingly probable step back of the Omnibus package on CSRD, CSDDD, and the Taxon...

PFAS: Trump blocks proposal to limit industrial wastewater

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 With the administration change at t...

Culligan C&I joins Grundfos: Grundfos Water Treatment Italy is born

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 Grundfos, a global leader in pumpin...

Biomethane, energy from circularity

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In recent years, driven by the decarbonization goals of the Fit for 55 package and the energy cris...

PFAS, European water is becoming increasingly polluted: the data from the first EEA briefing

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 9 December 2024, just a few week...

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...

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...

Ecomondo, the water supply chain increases its presence in the Mediterranean

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 The 2024 edition of Ecomondo s...

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