interview

Fabrizio Penna: “The PNRR transformed the Ministry and our relationship with Brussels”

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”

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: “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 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

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

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: 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”

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

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...

CBAM: the challenges of international accreditation

CBAM: the challenges of international accreditation

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Who monitors emissions from a steel mill in Wuhan on behalf of Europe when we import material...

Asia-Pacific carbon markets: Indonesia, China, India – where Article 6 will be shaped

Asia-Pacific carbon markets: Indonesia, China, India – where Article 6 will be shaped

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Anshari Rahman knows Article 6 from both sides of the table: he helped shape the rules as Sin...

EUSEW at 20: a living workshop for Europe’s clean energy future

EUSEW at 20: a living workshop for Europe’s clean energy future

The European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW) is the biggest annual event dedicated to renewables and efficient energy use in Europe, bringing together a diverse community dedicated to building a sec...

Giacomuzzi-Moore: amidst the current crisis, bioeconomy becomes a strategic asset

Giacomuzzi-Moore: amidst the current crisis, bioeconomy becomes a strategic asset

Brussels – The European bioeconomy already accounts for around 5% of the EU’s GDP, supports over 17 million jobs and plays an increasingly vital role in competitive and sustainable growt...

Bottled water: the Italian paradox and the normalisation of the superfluous

Bottled water: the Italian paradox and the normalisation of the superfluous

This article is part of the thematic channel The Water Observer: subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water Italy is the European country that consumes the m...

Massimo Centemero: “With urban carbon farming, municipalities at the core of a tangible transition”

Massimo Centemero: “With urban carbon farming, municipalities at the core of a tangible transition”

Carbon farming originated in the fields. That is where, in recent years, an idea that agricultural soil can become an active ally in mitigating climate change has taken root: through targeted agrono...

Rossella Sobrero: “Good governance lends credibility to corporate sustainability”

Rossella Sobrero: “Good governance lends credibility to corporate sustainability”

Governance, the most often overlooked of the ESG factors, is in fact essential to the success of the other two. “Without solid governance, it is difficult to define and implement effective env...

Lite-Soil: underground irrigation and water efficiency to tackle the climate crisis

Lite-Soil: underground irrigation and water efficiency to tackle the climate crisis

From 18 to 20 February, Milan hosted the 10th edition of MyPlant & Garden, Italy's most prominent trade fair for horticulture, gardening and landscaping. The event, media-partnered by Renew...

Valerie Langer: Changing a supply chain is difficult but possible, together

Valerie Langer: Changing a supply chain is difficult but possible, together

At twenty-five years old, Valerie Langer lived in a village of a thousand people on the edge of a Canadian forest, organising road blockades to stop logging trucks. It was the late 1980s, and Clayoq...

Energy and geopolitics, Francesco La Camera: Crises accelerate the transition

Energy and geopolitics, Francesco La Camera: Crises accelerate the transition

Geopolitical tensions have once again brought energy to the forefront of global debate. The escalation in the Middle East, with the conflict between the United States, Israel and Iran and the i...

Catastrophic risks in Italy, from awareness to protection

Catastrophic risks in Italy, from awareness to protection

Italy is one of the countries in Europe with the highest seismic and hydrogeological risk. According to the ANIA 2024 report, around 40% of residential properties are located in areas with medium to...