Plastics

Land use and CO₂, the GHG Protocol fills the gap in corporate inventories

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. The new GHG Protocol standard, Land Sector and Removals Standard, provides ...

Epic Gamble: The Renewed Israel-US Attack on Iran and Its Wider Impacts

It was a shock but not much of a surprise when Israeli and US air forces unloaded munitions on targets in Iran on Saturday, 28 February 2026. The buildup of US forces in the immediate vicinity ...

Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project, a soil carbon market

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer. Subscribe to the newsletter or update your preferences. The Northern Kenya Rangelands Carbon Project (NKRCP), led by the Northern R...

Conflict in Iran: reactions from the US and the energy markets

The peaceful weekend of the US capital, which woke up to its second day of war on a sunny Sunday, contrasts with the scenes seen in Tehran, Tel Aviv, and various capitals of the Gulf countries. Unti...

US-Israel strikes kill Khamenei: what is happening in Iran

The Middle East entered a new and destabilizing phase on Saturday morning, 1 March, when Iranian state media confirmed that Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei was killed in his office during the Israeli-US...

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...

India embraces AI and joins the US's Pax Silica

A human-centred approach, worldwide cooperation, and wider access to artificial intelligence technologies. The AI Impact Summit 2026 – the fourth, held this year in New Delhi from 16 to 2...

US fossil fuel lobbyists infiltrate the EU Parliament to dismantle the Green Deal

from Bruxelles - An investigation is raising straightforward questions about the democratic stability of the European Union and the role of external influences in its decision-making processes. In t...

KEY 2026 grows and eyes Europe next: “Transition is a system, not one single technology”

Twenty-four pavilions, 125,000 square metres of exhibition space, and 1,056 exhibiting companies, including 315 from abroad. These are the numbers behind Key – The Energy Transition Expo 2026,...

Piunti (CONOU): the revision of the POPs Regulation is detrimental to the circular economy

The most recent proposal to revise the European Regulation on Persistent Organic Pollutants (1021/2019 POPs) places a crucial issue for European environmental policies back at the centre of the deba...

What is beewashing?

Who doesn't remember the cartoon Maya the Honey Bee, first released in the 1970s, in which a curious little bee explores the world with her friend Will? Over the decades, through advertising, t...

Kyminasi Plants: bringing biophysics into agriculture

Within the agricultural innovation landscape, new technologies are emerging that seek to move beyond an approach to plant nutrition and crop management rooted solely in chemistry. Some of these inno...

Waste Water Directive and EPR: appeals by pharmaceutical and cosmetics industries rejected

The Court of Justice of the European Union has declared inadmissible a set of appeals filed by companies and associations in the pharmaceutical and cosmetics sectors against the extended producer re...

The Board of Whatever

World diplomacy reduced to a curtain-raiser. That's how one could sum up the first meeting of Donald J. Trump's Board of Peace, held on Thursday, February 19, at the Donald J. Trump United States of...

Investing in resilience as a development strategy

Stockholm Resilience Centre’s publications are always worth a careful reading. The latest report, “Resilience Science Must-Knows”, focuses on a single concept, widely debated in a ...

Padua Launches Climate Action Week 2026

From 11 to 19 April 2026, the city of Padua (Italy) will host the first Padova Climate Action Week (PCAW), a week-long programme of climate-focused events spread across the entire urban area. Rather...

Stopping the rise of the lakes in the Rift Valley

Last year, around five thousand people were displaced by the rising water level of Lake Naivasha, 50 kilometres from Nairobi. Similarly happened on Lakes Nakuru and Lake Baringo, located further nor...

Ferragamo Enters S&P Sustainability Yearbook 2026

Salvatore Ferragamo S.p.A. has been included for the first time in the S&P Global Sustainability Yearbook 2026, following its performance in the Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA). The co...

The OECD Reshapes the Global Water Agenda: What Is Its Legitimacy?

From the end of World War II, the United Nations and Bretton Woods Institutions dominated the world water order. They facilitated funding for water infrastructure, and they defined norms, institutio...

Trump revokes scientific ruling on greenhouse gas emissions

"Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, ...