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COP16, DSI mechanism for benefit sharing from the use of digital sequence information approved

COP16, DSI mechanism for benefit sharing from the use of digital sequence information approved

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - In a significant development at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Conv...

Half-time at COP16, where do negotiations stand?

Half-time at COP16, where do negotiations stand?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - On Saturday morning, 27 October, puffy rain clouds loomed over the Pacific Valley Exhi...

Climate geoengineering needs ethics

Climate geoengineering needs ethics

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Large-scale experimentation with geoengineering, or climate engineering, could entail risks and un...

PFAS, EU Commission restricts use of the ‘forever chemical’ PFHxA

PFAS, EU Commission restricts use of the ‘forever chemical’ PFHxA

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 Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances...

Greek government announces €5.9 billion plan to address water crisis

Greek government announces €5.9 billion plan to address water crisis

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 September 11, the Greek governme...

Water Integrity Global Outlook, corruption hinders right to water

Water Integrity Global Outlook, corruption hinders right to 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 On 11 September 2024, the internati...

UN, Guterres appoints Retno Marsudi as Special Envoy on Water

UN, Guterres appoints Retno Marsudi as Special Envoy on 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   On Friday, September 13, UN...

Renewable Matter launches the newsletter “The Water Observer”

Renewable Matter launches the newsletter “The Water Observer”

The editorial staff of Renewable Matter is pleased to announce the launch, on Thursday 5 September, of the first issue of The Water Observer, the paper's new thematic newsletter dedicated exclusivel...

PFASs can be absorbed through the skin and reach the bloodstream

PFASs can be absorbed through the skin and reach the bloodstream

PFAS can penetrate the skin and reach the bloodstream, according to the paper Dermal bioavailability of perfluoroalkyl substances using in vitro 3D human skin equivalent models, published in June 20...

The first Euro Mediterranean Water Forum will be held in Rome in 2026

The first Euro Mediterranean Water Forum will be held in Rome in 2026

In 2026, Italy will host the first Euro Mediterranean Water Forum in Rome. The Forum, which has previously focused solely on Mediterranean countries, will for the first time include all European and...

Introducing the new ISO standards for the circular economy

Introducing the new ISO standards for the circular economy

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which is responsible worldwide for setting technical standards, has published, after a five-year effort, new international standards aimed a...

Global plastics treaty, the 4th negotiation ended amid stonewalling and misinformation

Global plastics treaty, the 4th negotiation ended amid stonewalling and misinformation

The fourth round of negotiations of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) for the development of an international legally binding instrument (ILBI) on plastic pollution was held in Ott...

Rising emissions, over 80% produced by only 57 companies from 2015

Rising emissions, over 80% produced by only 57 companies from 2015

From the Paris Agreement to the present, climate-changing emissions have continued to increase rather than decrease. Even those related to coal — the most polluting of fossil fuels, which is w...

Green ammonia and hydrogen storage, a partnership between NextChem Tech and Vallourec

Green ammonia and hydrogen storage, a partnership between NextChem Tech and Vallourec

NextChem Tech's proprietary technology dedicated to green ammonia will be integrated with Vallourec's Delphy technology for hydrogen storage. Disclosing the collaboration is an April 4, 2024 press r...

Fashion Crimes: 'Zara and H&M use cotton linked to violence and environmental devastation'

Fashion Crimes: 'Zara and H&M use cotton linked to violence and environmental devastation'

“Back in the days when we used to swim in the river we were afraid of alligators. Now it is difficult to find even a small geko." Marcos Rogério Beltrão dos Santos is a Brazilian...

Tomra separates food-grade plastic from non-food-grade plastic with deep learning

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

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...

CSDDD, agreement reached on the sustainability due diligence of businesses

CSDDD, agreement reached on the sustainability due diligence of businesses

On March 15, ambassadors from European Union member states gathered at the COREPER Permanent Representatives Committee voted in favor of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD)....

Water Resilience Initiative, institutional letter against the EU Commission's suspension

Water Resilience Initiative, institutional letter against the EU Commission's suspension

After being postponed in February, the European Commission has suspended the Water Resilience Initiative. Its submission has, in fact, been withdrawn from the agenda of the upcoming College of Commi...

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Althesys: "With a bolder NECP Italians would save 25 billion in bills"

We already knew it: the National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP), is far from ambitious. Rather, it is ambiguous on many points, since it refers to " technological neutrality" regarding energy source...