Cryogenic condensation and recovery of industrial solvents
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter In October 2024, Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation announced a strategic investment in P...
China and the USA, the (Im)possible Balance: Interview with Kaiser Kuo
Attraction and repulsion, rivalry and complementarity, fascination and misunderstandings. The relationship between China and the United States is now, more than ever, at the very heart of internatio...
Anne-Manuèle Hébert: “STEP brings together the decarbonisation and circularity value chains”
STEP by Pollutec is a new two-day event launching at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on 1–2 December 2026, developed by RX France as a focused platform complementing Pollutec, its flagship envi...
Murat Kurum: “COP31 will deliver results: it’s not about what you want, it’s about what you do”
Trabzon - “The seas have no passports.” On the Black Sea coast in Trabzon, Murat Kurum, Turkey’s Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change and COP31 President-Design...
Riccardo Fraccaro: the new forest economy with carbon credits
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Italy has 11.8 million hectares of forest, equivalent to 39% of the country’s territory...
From Meat to Biomass: The Circular Future of Animal Husbandry
In the meat industry, as in other sectors, supply chain integration is a fundamental prerequisite for developing circular economy models. This is the path followed by Inalca, a subsidiary of Gruppo ...
Nippon Gases: The Circular Transition of Refrigerants
Refrigerant gases are the invisible protagonists of our daily lives. From household refrigerators to supermarket aisles, from office air conditioners to pharmaceutical cold storage: wherever tempera...
Stadler, the “connected intelligence” of waste
For most of its history, the recycling industry has been a business of steel and motion: conveyor belts, ballistic separators, screens, magnets. STADLER is a German family firm now in its eighth gen...
Critical raw materials, Luca Meini: “It’s urgent to move from strategy to execution”
In just a few years, critical raw materials (CRMs) have become the true bottleneck for Europe’s green and digital transition. Lithium, cobalt, rare earths, gallium, germanium – without t...
Neya, Mundys’ model for a high-integrity carbon credits market
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Mundys, a leading Italian holding company managing airports and motorways primarily in E...
Let’s Hear Them Out! Interview with Eva Meijer
According to Aristotle, human beings are the only political species. Aristotle, however, lived 23 centuries ago. And despite the influence of his thinking on Western culture, the moral, rational and...
Fabrizio Penna: “The PNRR transformed the Ministry and our relationship with Brussels”
MASE is the beneficiary of a substantial portion of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan: €33.7 billion spread across 49 measures, with 119 milestones and targets to be achieved. The ninth...
Serena Giacomin: “It’s not a strange summer: it’s climate change”
What can we expect in the coming weeks of this scorching summer? What are these Omega-shaped heat domes? Is the super El Niño on its way? To what extent is the climate crisis really to b...
Walter Stahel: “The owner has become the manufacturer’s slave”
Walter Stahel is one of the founding thinkers of the circular economy. A Swiss architect and industrial analyst born in 1946, he first outlined the concept of selling performance rather than product...
L’Oréal Italia and sustainable beauty: “Large corporations must set the course”
L’Oréal for the Future is the programme for a sustainable and inclusive future launched in 2020 by L’Oréal, a world leader in the cosmetics industry, operating&...
Euro-Mediterranean Water Forum: Italy’s challenge to blue diplomacy
From 29 September to 2 October 2026, Rome will host the first Euro-Mediterranean Water Forum. Organised by the One Water Committee with the support of CIHEAM in Bari, in collaboration with the Union...
The future of grid intelligence
Helsinki – European utilities are facing a historic turning point: increasingly complex grids, extreme weather events and customers demanding reliable and sustainable electricity are exerting ...
Giorgos Kallis: post-growth economy as a new economics paradigm
Giorgos Kallis is one of the leading voices in the international degrowth movement within the academic world. He is one of the leaders behind a pioneering European research project on the post-growt...
Michele Merola: “Sustainability in cosmetics is not just for show”
This article is part of our Beauty and Cosmetics feature: discover it here A varnished wooden cap with an aluminium screw – not FSC-certified, non-separable at the end of its life, and imposs...
Organic ingredients, green chemistry, transparency: the future of cosmetics for COSMOS
This article is part of our Beauty and Cosmetics feature: discover it here The beauty industry results in a significant environmental footprint: it accounts for 2.2% of global industrial carbon emi...