Bidirectional charging: E.ON launches BDL Next
E.ON has announced the launch of BDL Next, a project designed to take bidirectional charging to the mass market. As the name suggests, the technology allows energy to flow both ways, effectively tur...
Europe's waste could supply more than half of its CRMs by 2050
Building an onshore wind farm requires nearly nine times more mineral resources than a gas-fired power station. And as the energy transition accelerates, driven by electrification, the spread of ren...
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...
Serena Giacomin: “It’s not a strange summer: it’s climate change”
What can we expect in the coming weeks of this scorching summer? What are these Omega-shaped heat domes? Is the super El Niño on its way? To what extent is the climate crisis really to b...
Walter Stahel: “The owner has become the manufacturer’s slave”
Walter Stahel is one of the founding thinkers of the circular economy. A Swiss architect and industrial analyst born in 1946, he first outlined the concept of selling performance rather than product...
Corporate governance: ESG metrics, rules and new balances
In an economic climate where sustainability is increasingly prioritised, the three pillars of the ESG approach are undergoing a transformative shift: from mere compliance issues to key drivers ...
Electric Vehicles: how the Hormuz crisis changes the European market
Faced with the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, car electrification in Europe no longer appears to be merely a matter of climate policy or industrial innovation. After all, even now that the fragile...
L’Oréal Italia and sustainable beauty: “Large corporations must set the course”
L’Oréal for the Future is the programme for a sustainable and inclusive future launched in 2020 by L’Oréal, a world leader in the cosmetics industry, operating&...
Le Terre d'Acqua: a convention on water planning, technology and governance at the Marazzato Foundation
On 11 June, in Stroppiana (in the northern Italy province of Vercelli), the convention “Le terre d’Acqua” (Lands of Water), hosted by the Marazzato Foundation and moderated by ...
ATRenew: Giving Consumer Electronics a Second Life
“Consumers with a limited budget do not see buying second-hand items as shameful.” This is the mantra of Rex Chen, President and CFO of ATRenew, a Chinese company whose mission is to ext...
Euro-Mediterranean Water Forum: Italy’s challenge to blue diplomacy
From 29 September to 2 October 2026, Rome will host the first Euro-Mediterranean Water Forum. Organised by the One Water Committee with the support of CIHEAM in Bari, in collaboration with the Union...
Twenty Years of EUSEW: the new foundations for Europe’s energy future
The European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW), Europe’s biggest annual event dedicated to renewables and efficient energy use, was held in Brussels on 9-11 June. Organised by the European Commi...
Italy-China Circular Economy Forum: addressing the challenges of the transition
Shanghai – Circular economy, water security, decarbonisation of hard-to-abate sectors. A packed agenda of B2B talks and meetings awaited participants at the “Italy-China Circular Ec...
New ESRS standards: European sustainability towards simplification
The process of structuring European sustainability reporting has recently taken a decisive step forward: on June 3, the public consultation phase on the simplified version of the ESRS reporting stan...
Artificial Intelligence: unveiling the real environmental impacts
“One of the most consequential dimensions of AI that remains comparatively under-examined is its environmental footprint and the justice implications that follow.” This is how the latest...
Life cycle to carbon credits: the importance of EPDs in structural timber
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Within the framework of the new EU Regulation on Carbon Removals and Carbon Farming (CRCF), t...
Up to 500,000 heat pumps per year: this is how Vaillant is investing in Europe
Bratislava – Visiting the Vaillant Group’s new mega-factory in Senica, Slovakia, one figure stands out above all others: a potential capacity of 500,000 electric heat pumps per year. A p...
Could Iron Man Save the Carbon Market?
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter During the week of May 18 to May 23, I was in Singapore for two of the most important carbon ...
The social cost of carbon is now a factor in transition decisions
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Translating CO₂ emissions into economic and social value to help businesses and institution...
Transition credits: waiting for Godot?
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The question of whether transition credits constitute a viable tool for accelerating coal pha...