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Italy’s first biogas-powered heating and cooling plant opens in Peschiera Borromeo

Italy has inaugurated its first integrated district heating and cooling system powered entirely by biogas generated from sewage sludge, marking a significant step toward large-scale circular energy ...

From offshore to onshore: Europe expands carbon storage with nature-inspired tech

For the first time, Europe will bury its carbon not beneath the sea, but under its own soil, heralding a new chapter in the continent’s fight against climate change. On 30 April 2025, the EU i...

EBC25 Highlights Europe’s Shift Toward a Circular, Biobased Economy

The European Bioplastics Conference (EBC25) will return to Berlin on 2 and 3 December 2025, marking two decades of international dialogue on material innovation and the growing relevance of biopolym...

EUSEW 2026 to Drive Europe’s Path toward a Resilient Energy Union

The European Sustainable Energy Week 2026 will take place from 9 to 11 June, marking the 20th edition of the largest EU event dedicated to renewable energy and efficient energy use. Under the theme ...

Space Economy, Italy Launches “BEX – Beyond Exploration” in 2026

The rapid evolution of the global space economy, valued at over 570 billion dollars in 2023 according to OECD estimates, is pushing countries to strengthen industrial capabilities and research netwo...

Beyond environmental impact: bringing people and governance back to the core of ESG

When it comes to ESG measurement systems and reporting processes, both public debate and corporate practice appear to focus almost exclusively on environmental issues, while social and governance th...

The gender gap in STEM persists, but the transition needs female talent

That science is not a woman’s business is an old cliché, increasingly disproved nowadays by new strands of historiography that restore brilliant female researchers and inventors of the ...

Trentino has a goal: to be the first Italian region with an ESG rating

Within a global context where competitiveness, innovation, and sustainability can no longer proceed on separate tracks, Trentino has opted to promote a development model capable of integrating them ...

COP30, awaiting a negotiation reform

COP30 comes to an end as a mirror of the current times. Multilateral cooperation on climate change barely survives, notwithstanding geopolitical tensions. Growing are the divisions between countries...

Lavazza’s Tablì Redefines Single-Serve Coffee with a 100% Coffee Innovation

Lavazza introduces Tablì to the Italian market, a breakthrough designed to deliver a truly “100% caffè” experience. The system is the result of a five-year research pa...

AgriZone, the agribusiness challenge at COP30

From Belém - Formally, it is supposed to be a space dedicated to sustainable agriculture and technological innovation. In reality, it welcomes and gives a voice to all Brazilian and internati...

Climate finance at COP30: how to leverage $1.3 trillion by 2035

During the climate summit in Brazil, the focus shifted back to climate finance: without adequate resources, making progress on adaptation, mitigation and combating global warming is difficult, parti...

Energy Transition at Home and Beyond: E.ON’s Integrated Vision for a Sustainable Future

The global energy transition is no longer an abstract aspiration; it is a measurable and accelerating process shaped by technological innovation, policy targets and rising environmental risks. Accor...

The new channel The Social & Governance Observer is launched

‘A just ecological transition is inclusive and leaves no one behind,’ declared Marina Silva, Brazil’s combative Minister of the Environment and Climate, at the opening of COP30, th...

The large skills gap in Italy's transition

Italy may be speaking about innovation, but its training programmes remain inadequate and poorly designed. According to the eLearning Maturity Report 2025 published by the Politecnico di Milano...

Transition and international trade: China’s role at COP30

From Belém - At COP30 in Belém, global trade was for the first time explicitly included in climate negotiations. It was inevitable: the transition is no longer just a matter of climate...

Cúpula dos Povos: a no to Mercosur from the heart of the Amazon

The 30th United Nations Climate Change Conference is taking place in a location that is at once symbol and battleground of the ongoing crisis: the Amazon. The forest, a treasure trove of biodiversit...

Startup, SurplusMap: Making Electric Charging in Europe More Sustainable

SurplusMap designs smarter, more sustainable charging infrastructure. Founded by Luis de Ita Maubant and Reiner van Gageldonk, the Norwegian startup has developed a platform that combines big data, ...

Ukraine demands $43 billion from Russia for environmental damage caused by the war

No silence is more haunting than the one following an explosion. It does not only concern what war takes away from human life, but also what it takes away from nature: forests turned to ash, fields ...

Ukraine, a Top-Secret Reconstruction

The pot is large. In fact, huge: 524 billion dollars. Roughly equivalent to the GDP of the United Arab Emirates. According to the World Bank, this is the cost of rebuilding Ukraine over the next dec...