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Startup, NatureMetrics: Scalable Biodiversity Metrics Powered by e-DNA

Startup, NatureMetrics: Scalable Biodiversity Metrics Powered by e-DNA

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano NatureMetrics is accelerating the use of molecular methods for species and ecosystem monitoring, t...

COP16 Desertification Saudi Arabia, UN negotiations close in Riyadh

COP16 Desertification Saudi Arabia, UN negotiations close in Riyadh

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water The world will have to wait two mor...

PFAS, European water is becoming increasingly polluted: the data from the first EEA briefing

PFAS, European water is becoming increasingly polluted: the data from the first EEA briefing

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water On 9 December 2024, just a few week...

Circular economy and sustainability: how do we measure them?

Circular economy and sustainability: how do we measure them?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Measurement and reporting are crucial to the success and growth of the circular economy, requiring...

Corepla: Testing the Recyclability of Plastic Packaging

Corepla: Testing the Recyclability of Plastic Packaging

When it comes to creating truly circular plastic packaging, the design stage is everything. Therefore, improving the recyclability of plastic waste is one of the main goals of Corepla, Italy&rs...

World Soil Day, the “indissoluble” link with water

World Soil Day, the “indissoluble” link with water

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water In the last years, on 5 December, W...

Startup, CarbonFly: less emissions with sustainable aviation fuel

Startup, CarbonFly: less emissions with sustainable aviation fuel

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano CarbonFly is the first Book & Claim platform that uses blockchain technology to enable airline...

Global plastics treaty, INC-5 closes without agreement and is postponed to 2025

Global plastics treaty, INC-5 closes without agreement and is postponed to 2025

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano At 2.50 a.m. of Monday, 2 December in Busan, South Korea, the fifth round of negotiations (INC-5) ...

COP16 Desertification, the negotiations on soil protection are underway

COP16 Desertification, the negotiations on soil protection are underway

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Approximately 15 million km² of land − an area larger than Antarctica − has alrea...

Bhopal, the disaster in India continues after 40 years

Bhopal, the disaster in India continues after 40 years

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Rehana Bi is a 55-year-old Indian woman. When she was 16, she tells radio station Npr, she was str...

Textile and Chemical Industries at Ecomondo

Textile and Chemical Industries at Ecomondo

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From printing inks and dyes to fabric treatment, from synthetic fibres to whitening agents, from f...

Startup, Farzati: digital, secure, and transparent traceability with BluDev

Startup, Farzati: digital, secure, and transparent traceability with BluDev

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Farzati SPA has developed and is deploying its BluDev technology alongside proprietary IoT solutio...

COP29, a half success for the climate finance negotiation

COP29, a half success for the climate finance negotiation

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - The target is 1.3 trillion dollars a year by 2035 to help developing countries mitigat...

Global plastics treaty: is a weak agreement better than none at all?

Global plastics treaty: is a weak agreement better than none at all?

This article is available also in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The fifth and final round of negotiations (INC-5) for a Global Plastics Treaty begins today, Novem...

Suriname and Guyana, when climate adaptation requires oil money

Suriname and Guyana, when climate adaptation requires oil money

This article is also available in Italian / Qusto articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - Marciano Dasai is the environment minister of Suriname, a small Caribbean country ...

Italian Climate Fund: how Italy is really contributing

Italian Climate Fund: how Italy is really contributing

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - Negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) − the post-2025 f...

Startup, CrioPura: water purification with macroporous polymeric hydrogels

Startup, CrioPura: water purification with macroporous polymeric hydrogels

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano CrioPura is a project created by a team of researchers at the Italian CNR (National Research Counc...

A dual energy dependence between Azerbaijan and Italy: ECCO's case study

A dual energy dependence between Azerbaijan and Italy: ECCO's case study

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Azerbaijan, the host country of the COP29 climate conference in Baku, is certainly not a positive ...

COP29: with Trump's return, will China be the new climate hero?

COP29: with Trump's return, will China be the new climate hero?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano COP29 in Baku opened against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s re-election. While the announcem...

Startup, ImmunoVeg: botanical extracts and cell cultures for bio-ingredients

Startup, ImmunoVeg: botanical extracts and cell cultures for bio-ingredients

Immunoveg develops cell culture systems from plant lines for the production of bioingredients for the nutraceutical, cosmetic and novel-food sectors. This is achieved using mixers and bio-fermenters...