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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...

Forest regeneration is underway on Isola dell’Ochetta after the 2023 storm

Forest regeneration is underway on Isola dell’Ochetta after the 2023 storm

In July 2023, powerful winds swept through the Ticino Park with a force unusual even for an ecosystem accustomed to floods, erosion and the natural rhythms of a river landscape. Gusts exceeding 100 ...

Applications Now Open for the Ecomondo International Press Tour 2026

Applications Now Open for the Ecomondo International Press Tour 2026

There is a precise moment, every November, when Rimini stops being an off-season seaside town and becomes the European capital of the circular economy. The exhibition halls fill with optical sorting...

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...

The New Italy-China Circular Economy Forum Accelerates Cooperation

The New Italy-China Circular Economy Forum Accelerates Cooperation

There is one thing that every European company today seems to prioritise: establishing new ties with the Chinese superpower. At the start of 2026, President Xi Jinping reached a series of important ...

A farewell to Carlo Petrini, the visionary who brought political dignity to food

A farewell to Carlo Petrini, the visionary who brought political dignity to food

“Those who sow utopia reap reality”: this is the phrase that Carlo Petrini often repeated, and it perhaps sums up his life spent turning ideas once considered on the fringes into global ...

Italy’s Solar Power Surge Reshapes the National Energy Mix

Italy’s Solar Power Surge Reshapes the National Energy Mix

Italy’s electricity demand continued its upward trend in April 2026, reaching 23.9 billion kWh, a 1.9% increase compared with the same month in 2025. According to data published by Terna, the ...

High Altitude, High Responsibility: the

High Altitude, High Responsibility: the "Alpeggio Project"

Every year, with the arrival of the first autumn chills, the mountains of Trentino prepare for a moment of celebration: the Desmontegada. This is the moment when livestock herds, which have spe...

Slow Tourism in Trentino: Good for the Mind and Body

Slow Tourism in Trentino: Good for the Mind and Body

Spending at least 120 minutes per week surrounded by nature is associated with good health and mental wellbeing. A study involving 20,000 people by the University of Exeter confirmed this, noting th...

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...

SUM 2026 Brings Circular Economy Research to Procida

SUM 2026 Brings Circular Economy Research to Procida

From 20 to 22 May 2026, the island of Procida, near Naples, will host the ninth edition of SUM 2026 – The International Multidisciplinary Symposium on Circular Economy and Urban Mining. The of...

Cosmetics and sustainability: highlights from Cosmoprof 2026

Cosmetics and sustainability: highlights from Cosmoprof 2026

Cosmoprof Worldwide 2026 featured four days of immersion in the world of cosmetics and personal care, covering the entire supply chain, from packaging to raw materials. Renewable Matter visited the ...