Babiš’s victory in the Czech Republic is a defeat for Europe
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Andrej Babiš, the billionaire who won the elections in the Czech Republic, is the kind of p...
Why UNGA 80 and the 2026 UN Water Conference Will Not Change Water Politics
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly has just concluded in New York. For a week...
At War with the Future: Trump Speaks at the UN General Assembly
A legend in his own mind, Donald Trump took to the podium at the UN General Assembly in New York to lambaste the United Nations as an organization, praise himself for all his economic and political ...
Transition and the Green Deal: the 3 weak points of Mario Draghi's speech
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano It is well known that Mario Draghi has never been particularly sensitive to climate and ecological...
The Animal Kingdom
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Until the age of 18, I was a vegetarian. Veganism existed as a practice, but the word had not...
Navigating wetland conservation in challenging political climates
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The Convention on Wetlands COP15, which concluded at the end July in Zimbabwe, left me with much f...
American Pastoral
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On 4 November 2008, I was among the thousands who gathered in Grant Park, Chicago, to witness the ...
Biodiversity is not a given
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano “What we need now is political courage, social commitment and the practical implementation o...
COP30 chaos: a logistical fiasco that undermines negotiations and democracy
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponible anche in italiano This year, I will not attend COP30. After 15 years of negotiations, which I began following in 2009...
A Long, Healthy Life
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The oblivion of death is a vertigo that we reject throughout our lives. But if, in De senectute, C...
The Collapse of “American Exceptionalism”: the Beginning of the End of the US as the Global Superpower?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The 4 July is still celebrated in the United States as Independence Day, although this year it has...
Carbon footprint: why ISO standards should be free
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Is a tonne of CO₂ always a tonne of CO₂, no matter the country or industrial sector? It might ...
Huge potential for a global circular economy going unleveraged
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Beginning to write this year’s Circularity Gap Report, we were driven by a simple question: ...
Orientalism
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano For decades, the Global South has been warning us about the systemic failure of the preconceived v...
Farewell, Pepe Mujica: an icon of social ecology
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Pepe Mujica, the former president of Uruguay and symbol of modest, socially and environmentally co...
Trump's deep sea mining order could destabilize international cooperation
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano As Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), I take note of the Executive Ord...
The Rising Risk in Carbon Markets: Who’s Really Carrying It?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In today’s evolving carbon market, one player is shouldering more and more risk: the project...
Water as weapon: India's threat to the Indus Treaty signals a dangerous global turn
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano It took years of painstaking diplomacy, technical negotiation, and political compromise to broker ...
Farewell to Pope Francis, the climate activist “from the end of the world”
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano With the death of Pope Francis, one of the most powerful voices of our time in the fight for clima...
The shifting landscape of hydrogen: a reality check and the need for a coherent strategy
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In recent years, hydrogen has captivated the imagination of the energy sector, garnering significa...