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COP17, Marco Lambertini: “For businesses, the state of nature is the ultimate indicator”

COP17, Marco Lambertini: “For businesses, the state of nature is the ultimate indicator”

Yerevan - Finance for biodiversity is at the heart of COP17, both in the political negotiations and in the growing role of private finance. The latter was discussed primarily at side events hosted i...

Trawling in protected areas: the legal battle reaches Italy

Trawling in protected areas: the legal battle reaches Italy

On a map, the waters of the Tyrrhenian Sea off Tuscany and of the Ionian Sea off Apulia are designated under Natura 2000, the EU network meant to protect vulnerable habitats and species. Underwater,...

COP17 seeks consensus on nature finance and tackling environmentally harmful subsidies

COP17 seeks consensus on nature finance and tackling environmentally harmful subsidies

Yerevan - With the high-level segment of the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity (COP17) now underway, attention is turning to a key issue: financing for nature, including the mobilisation of ...

Rigid plastics: Aliplast’s new plant for high-performance recycling

Rigid plastics: Aliplast’s new plant for high-performance recycling

Fifty million euros to increase both the quantity and quality of recycled rigid plastics: this is the investment made by Aliplast (a subsidiary of the Hera Group), which also received a €7.7 mi...

Acque Bresciane, Nature as a Strategy

Acque Bresciane, Nature as a Strategy

A male bearded reedling (Panurus biarmicus), a bird with tawny plumage and a pearl-grey head, scurries among the reeds of the Torbiere del Sebino (Sebino Peat Bogs) Nature Reserve. This environment ...

The Mediterranean seeks a common strategy built on resilience, investment and governance

The Mediterranean seeks a common strategy built on resilience, investment and governance

This article is part of the thematic channel The Water Observer: subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water More than 5,000 registrations, 700 speakers ...

When the Best Ideas Come from a Change of Perspective

When the Best Ideas Come from a Change of Perspective

Between late September and October, the forests around San Vigilio di Marebbe blaze with reds and golds; the air is crisp, and the days are clear and bright. There are still a few mushrooms left to ...

The unresolved issue: living next to a polluted site

The unresolved issue: living next to a polluted site

Many places in Europe have been contaminated by companies which, despite sometimes having been “ordered” to carry out remediation, fail to compensate residents for the damage caused to t...

Rome Initiative on Water launched to strengthen water security in the Mediterranean

Rome Initiative on Water launched to strengthen water security in the Mediterranean

This article is part of the thematic channel The Water Observer: subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water Rome - The Mediterranean is entering a phase...

The 2026 Euromediterranean Water Forum in Rome

The 2026 Euromediterranean Water Forum in Rome

The Mediterranean region is preparing to place water at the top of its political and economic agenda. From September 29 to October 2, 2026, La Nuvola in Rome will host the Euro-Mediterranean Water F...

Gruppo CAP: Greener Water Infrastructure Thanks to Solar Power

Gruppo CAP: Greener Water Infrastructure Thanks to Solar Power

To combine energy production, consumption reduction, and citizen engagement by transforming wastewater treatment plants into more resilient and energy self-sufficient infrastructures. This is the go...

Heidelberg Materials in Brenner: How Concrete Supports the European Tunnel

Heidelberg Materials in Brenner: How Concrete Supports the European Tunnel

18 September 2025 marked a historic milestone for European engineering: the cross-border breakthrough of the exploratory tunnel in the Brenner Base Tunnel (BBT) for the first time created a continuo...

HBI Unveils the Future of Sludge Management

HBI Unveils the Future of Sludge Management

Zero Branco (Treviso) - In a warehouse on the outskirts of Treviso, the word “sludge” no longer means waste. On 11 September, HBI inaugurated EVA 3, the first fully industrial-scale impl...

Trentino, a Land in Balance Between Sport and Nature

Trentino, a Land in Balance Between Sport and Nature

Cycling among the apple blossoms of the Upper Non Valley, along the cycle path across meadows and small villages, or following the course of the Sarca River from the shores of Lake Garda, along the ...

Riccardo Fraccaro: the new forest economy with carbon credits

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...

Terna’s Submarine Cables Strengthen Italy's Role in the Mediterranean

Terna’s Submarine Cables Strengthen Italy's Role in the Mediterranean

A crucial part of Italy's energy future is currently being built under the sea. An invisible network of cables connecting islands, regions and even continents, making the national electricity grid m...

Energy Communities Need You(th): bridging Italy's youth and Renewable Energy Communities

Energy Communities Need You(th): bridging Italy's youth and Renewable Energy Communities

Renewable Energy Communities (RECs) are multiplying across Europe, yet most are still highly dependent on volunteer-based work. One way to support the spreading and development of the energy communi...

Startup, Alkelux: more durable food packaging made from liquorice waste

Startup, Alkelux: more durable food packaging made from liquorice waste

Alkelux is a deep tech start-up established in Sardinia in 2024 whose mission combines sustainable chemistry, the circular economy and the fight against food waste: transforming an industrial by-pro...

FS Group: building the future of sustainable mobility

FS Group: building the future of sustainable mobility

2026 will go down as a landmark year for FS Group for the major acceleration and complexity of the transformation of Italy’s rail network. From the 11.6 billion euros in investment mobilised i...

ETS reform: the EU is going along with the most polluting industries

ETS reform: the EU is going along with the most polluting industries

On Friday 17 July, the European Commission presented its proposal to revise the Emissions Trading System (ETS), the EU’s carbon market, which since 2005 has helped halve emissions from th...