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....
Sustainably nourishing the global population: the third challenge of the Ocean Decade
UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the United Nations aim to reverse the cycle of decline affecting our seas by making the ocean healthy and resilient, safe, clean, productive, ...
The London Climate Technology Show 2024 is coming in November
Following two successful inaugural editions, the London Climate Technology Show, the most important and innovative event for climate technology and corporate sustainability, comes back this November...
Kamala Harris picks Tim Walz, a vice-presidential candidate committed to climate
At first glance, he could look like a confirmation of the anticipations that emerged in recent weeks: he is white, middle-aged, and a man. However, this is a characterization that does not do justic...
Startup: inks and pigments from algal waste with Living Ink
Living Ink is on a mission to make pigments and inks more sustainable by transforming waste from algae grown in the United States into renewable, value-added colour solutions. Based in Colorado...
Boland (EESC): the future labor market must overcome skills poverty
There are two megatrends that will affect (and already are affecting) the European labor market in the next decade: on one hand, the double transition, ecological and digital, requiring new and incr...
Innovatec, a Single Player for the Various Challenges of the Energy Transition
The CO₂ emissions generated by the energy sector are constantly growing: in 2023, they reached a new record high of 37.4 billion tonnes. However, without renewable energy, the increase in emission...
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...
Circular economy stimulates responsible finance and provides lower default risk
Published in mid-July by the UN Environment Programme, as part of a single framework of principles for responsible banking in line with the SDGs and the Paris Climate Agreement, the two reports ...
Gruppo CAP: Decarbonising the Water Sector
For a long time, the integrated water sector was considered naturally sustainable due to its intrinsic relationship with water as an element. This approach, however, is a thing of the past, especial...
FIWARE Global Summit: the tenth edition is about to start
On September 18 and 19, 2024, the FIWARE Global Summit, one of the leading business and open-source technology conferences, will be held. It will be convened by the FIWARE Foundation in collabo...
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...
Hera Group’s Solutions for Circular Decarbonisation
EU climate targets require businesses to undertake rather complex industrial decarbonisation. This radical transformation in the way companies manufacture products and consume energy necessitates th...
China, Third Plenum: Xi promises modernization by 2029, but glosses over domestic crisis
“Further deepening the broad effort on reforms and promoting Chinese-style modernization.” All by 2029, the year in which the People's Republic will celebrate its 80th anniversary. This ...
Drought in Sicily: what’s happening?
Livestocks drink mud, lakes dry up, grain and forage harvests are down to zero. These are the shocking images coming recently from Sicily, in the midst of a drought emergency. These hardships a...
Restoring marine ecosystems, the second challenge of the Ocean Decade
As part of the Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (the Ocean Decade), UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission released ten White Papers, each addressing complementa...
Why Beryl is the earliest Atlantic hurricane ever (and will not stay an isolated case)
Increasingly earlier, more intense and devastating, atlantic hurricanes, fuelled by steadily rising ocean temperatures, are becoming ever more dangerous and unpredictable. So much so that some ...
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...