Christa Schweng: the Union is Circular
Christa Schweng was elected President of the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) on 28 October 2020 for a period of two and a half years, to run until March 2023. She has been an EESC memb...
Carlo Petrini and Franco Fassio: This is The Future of the Circular Economy for Food
If the agri-food industry wants to contribute to achieving SDGs it must embrace circularity, cut waste and value social and natural capital. It must also favour local scale while paying attention to...
Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Nestlè named the world’s top plastic polluters for the third year
Coca-Cola has conquered, for the third year in a row, the unenviable podium of the top plastic polluter in the world. This was stated in the latest report by the Break Free From Plastic coalition, w...
RenewAfrica, the public-private partnership for renewable energy in Africa
The Agenda 2030 makes it clear: in order to achieve a fair and sustainable development, it is necessary to build alliances that see public and private stakeholders collaborating towards the pursuit ...
Contaminated Earth. FAO: no more pristine soil on the planet
Food security, water, monitoring the greenhouse gas cycle, maintaining biodiversity: all these ecosystem services depend on the health of the soil. And yet, there is no land on the planet today that...
Europe: another step toward the right to repair
The war is not yet won, but there has been another successful battle. With a vote in the European Parliament on 25th November, the campaign for the right to repair scored an important victory. Overc...
Is remote working really better for the environment?
The Future of Jobs 2020, a report drafted by the World Economic Forum, highlights a number of ongoing trends, including the expansion of remote working, the acceleration of digitalisation , and auto...
The Pros and Cons of Reducing Transport Emissions Using LNG
Heavy haul transport has to understand which path to choose. Better to fully push toward electrification, with technology that is not yet mature, or to go through a gas-powered transition phase? We ...
Good as new: boom in the refurbished tech market (with a push from Covid)
Every year, towards the end of November, our screens are filled with promotions and advertising for Black Friday deals. A feature that is likely to distinguish this autumn from previous years, aside...
Going Full Throttle with Biofuels
Along with the construction and manufacturing sectors, transport is still a top priority for decarbonisation strategies. According to the World Resource institute’s data for 2020, cars (including ...
Jocelyn Bleriot: Rethinking Cities as Production Centres for Food
The Covid-19 pandemic has unveiled the dysfunctions in the current global agricultural and food systems, exposing many to insecurity and hunger. At the same time, it has also revealed certain commun...
Smart City Live 2020: what cities should do in the new normal scenario?
Covid-19 has turned everything inside out. In cities, too. The pandemic has left an indelible mark on the outlook of the urban coat and is forcing city officials to rethink urban development to adap...
The Stakeholder Conference: a place to discuss the future of the European circular economy
“It’s all about you”. With these words, on 3rd November, Executive Vice-President for the European Green Deal Frans Timmermans inaugurated the 2020 Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference. He ...
The European Bioplastics Conference will be held online from 30 November to 3 December
The 15th European Bioplastics Conference will take place online from 30 November to 3 December. The annual European Bioplastics Conference, which normally takes place in Berlin, is the leading inter...
Hydrogen: so many choices, so few actions
Hydrogen, perhaps the most promising technology in clean energy transition era, is still rarely exploited worldwide. Efforts are being made in order to create concretely hydrogen-based solutions, es...
Second Life… is Circular!
The Alliance for the circular economy, joined by Enel and 16 other Italian iconic companies, presented a paper to steer transition towards the circular economy with huge advantages for the climate, ...
Big Plastic’s Manual Of False Solutions For Plastic Waste
Delay, distract, and derail any law or action plan for reducing plastic waste, so business-as-usual can go on as long as possible. These are the three basic tactics that Big Plastic has successfully...
The man who invented the bioeconomy: the story of Raul Gardini
The Eni of Enrico Mattei, the great vision of Adriano Olivetti: in the industrial history of Italy we too often find ourselves, in retrospect, regretting the enormous opportunities lost due to the r...
Ecomondo and Key Energy will be held online, from 3 to 15 November
Ecomondo and Key Energy had to surrender to the decree of the Italian Prime Minister presented on 25 October, which established the suspension of fairs and conferences of any kind.Two weeks for the ...
The Geopolitics of Food. Interview with Tim Lang
Tim Lang favours the long view. You can’t look at the food system without using a complex, holistic approach. No one has a better outlook than the internationally renowned professor of Food Policy...