Gen-Z, tariffs and elections: 2025 seen through Asia
While, contrary to popular belief, the famous Chinese anathema ‘May you live in interesting times’ is not Chinese at all, 2025 has certainly been a decidedly “interesting” ye...
Amidst agreements and blockades: the 2025 review for the ocean
The ocean, which supplies humankind with fundamental ecosystem services, from fishing to climate regulation, is increasingly central to international debates. The year 2025 has witnessed mixed resul...
9 books to read on Christmas 2025 to envision the future
The final weeks of the year are a time of suspension, allowing, for those who can afford it, to slow down the pace, open up room for reflection, and go back to the essential questions. It is also th...
Startup: Battery Swapping and Cold Chain Infrastructure with Kenya's E-Safiri
E-Safiri develops mobility infrastructure and electric vehicle battery replacement networks, offering public and private charging options, as well as refrigerated storage solutions. Recognised as an...
Gender equality: Italy is lagging behind. Vision and strategy necessary, not least for a fairer transition
Gender equality will take 134 years to achieve. Five generations. This is not a catastrophic prediction, but rather the estimate of the Global Gender Gap Report 2024, which photographs a slowdown in...
The law and the rights of indigenous peoples that Brazil pretends not to see
From Belém - In Brazil, there exists a very clear legal right, ratified over thirty years ago in an international treaty: the Consulta Previa Livre e Informada (CLPI). It stipulates that...
Myro Bot Is Changing Internal Wall Painting on Construction Sites
Myro is one of the world's first internal wall painting robots, the result of research by Myro International, a subsidiary of Mojay Global Holding. To combat labour scarcity, help meet deadlines, an...
Building an African Early Warning System “from the ground up”
In 2018, only 40 percent of Africa’s population had access to Early Warning Systems (EWS), resulting in poor advance notice to hazards from natural phenomena, and thus to greater losses. Howev...
The climate crisis exacerbates inequalities, especially for women and girls
Walking for hours in the sun to fetch water. Giving birth without medical assistance because the clinic is unreachable after a flood. Giving up contraception as it is too expensive, while the family...
From offshore to onshore: Europe expands carbon storage with nature-inspired tech
For the first time, Europe will bury its carbon not beneath the sea, but under its own soil, heralding a new chapter in the continent’s fight against climate change. On 30 April 2025, the EU i...
The gender gap in STEM persists, but the transition needs female talent
That science is not a woman’s business is an old cliché, increasingly disproved nowadays by new strands of historiography that restore brilliant female researchers and inventors of the ...
AgriZone, the agribusiness challenge at COP30
From Belém - Formally, it is supposed to be a space dedicated to sustainable agriculture and technological innovation. In reality, it welcomes and gives a voice to all Brazilian and internati...
Climate finance at COP30: how to leverage $1.3 trillion by 2035
During the climate summit in Brazil, the focus shifted back to climate finance: without adequate resources, making progress on adaptation, mitigation and combating global warming is difficult, parti...
The large skills gap in Italy's transition
Italy may be speaking about innovation, but its training programmes remain inadequate and poorly designed. According to the eLearning Maturity Report 2025 published by the Politecnico di Milano...
Startup, SurplusMap: Making Electric Charging in Europe More Sustainable
SurplusMap designs smarter, more sustainable charging infrastructure. Founded by Luis de Ita Maubant and Reiner van Gageldonk, the Norwegian startup has developed a platform that combines big data, ...
Ukraine, a Top-Secret Reconstruction
The pot is large. In fact, huge: 524 billion dollars. Roughly equivalent to the GDP of the United Arab Emirates. According to the World Bank, this is the cost of rebuilding Ukraine over the next dec...
Water crisis: the subtle rise of managed aquifer recharge
They allow water to be stored in its most precious reservoir, the subsoil, with lower environmental impacts and costs than surface aquifers. Yet, for decades, managed aquifer recharge (MAR) tec...
COP30, climate change and forced migration in Latin America
Climate change not only destroys territories and ecosystems — it deepens historical inequalities and forces millions of people to move. In Latin America and the Caribbean, where structural pov...
Turning water from a problem into a resource: the challenge of sustainable cities
To counter climate change, we must rethink the way we design and experience our cities: public health, the environment, urban planning and innovation must converge in a single “One Health&rdqu...
Tropical Forest Forever Fund: the controversial Brazilian project at the core of COP30
It is Lula's crowning achievement, his political legacy for the Amazon: a mega forest fund, the first of its kind, superior to any previous initiative, including the REDD+ carbon credit mechanism. I...