Ecomondo Mexico, circular economy waiting to be built
(Guadalajara) There is a need for circular economy in Mexico. Among the 12,500 registered visitors at Solar + Storage y Ecomondo México in the city of Guadalajara, Jalisco, the interest in EP...
Startup, Zupply: automation platform for circular building projects
Zupply is a Danish startup that supports companies in the construction industry in transitioning to circular economy models. They do so by using data and automation to initiate workflows to efficien...
Urban Food Policy can revolutionise food consumption. Interview with Peter Defranceschi
There is a world of meanings and connections behind two simple words like "food" and "city," spanning across cultures, economies, stories, and social interactions. In urban contexts, food is an elem...
Circularity 24, the international benchmark event for the circular economy
Circularity 24 is the international benchmark event for circular economy professionals, an opportunity to grow the circularity community and accelerate concrete change in this direction. With more ...
Less is more? Degrowth, green growth and the future of our economy
Imagine a world where overwhelming narratives on climate change are a thing of the past, with healthy air, clean water and fertile soil. And no one’s had to suffer for it: people around the wo...
Climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development: the key international meetings during 2024
2024 will be a key year for green finance, for the green transition, for advancing the UN Montreal-Kunming Agreement on Biodiversity, for strengthening multilateralism on sustainable development beg...
Used Oils: CONOU's Winning Model
Approximately 40 years ago, CONOU – Italy’s National Consortium of Waste Oils – became the first to inaugurate an applied extended producer responsibility scheme to collect and reg...
Circularity Gap Report 2024, a roadmap to lead the world towards the circular economy
Everyone is talking about it, but few actually practice it: while the circular economy is now a megatrend (considering the number of articles, reports and debates on the topic increased threefold in...
Circular economy, rethinking the built environment in the digital age
The list of digital innovations that can be applied to the construction sector, one of the most impactful on the environment, is long and varied. Digital twins, artificial intelligence, materials pa...
Satellites Watch Over Us from Above
On November 3, 2023, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Karnali province in western Nepal. Immediately after receiving the news, the Nepalese Ministry of Home Affairs asked Sentinel Asia to send...
Circular Economy: A Concept at a Crossroad
Despite the initial enthusiasm and efforts to transition towards circular models, recent data reveal a concerning decline in the global circularity rate. From 9.1% in 2018, the circularity rate...
Lavazza Introduces the First Circular Transition Centre for Coffee
The time has come for the coffee sector to finally become circular, and the right synergies are needed to accelerate the transition. This is the focus of the new Centre for Circular Economy in ...
Automotive, Stellantis focuses on circular economy with a new hub in Turin
The Stellantis Group has decided to focus on circularity. They announced it a year ago, and the official ribbon-cutting day came on November 23. The first hub in Europe dedicated to the automotive c...
A circular food system can reverse the overshoot of planetary boundaries
* Álvaro Conde and Alex Colloricchio contributed to this article A global transition towards a sustainable food system is long overdue, scientists agree: and although farming has lon...
What are the Italian Government's priorities for the circular economy? Interview with Vice Minister Vannia Gava
The Ministry of Environment and Energy Security will take part in the 26th edition of Ecomondo, a leading international event on green transition policies and solutions for the green and circular ec...