World Cleanup Day 2026: Strive for Five
Twenty-four thousand square kilometres. Five hours. Fifty thousand people. In 2008, that was Estonia's answer to decades of illegal dumping: an entire country cleaned in a single coordinated sweep. ...
Norway will continue to drill in the Arctic, with or without Europe?
Profiting from the melting Arctic ice by extracting oil and gas from one of its most biodiverse seas: this is the fossil fuel development plan the Norwegian government has in mind for the Barents Se...
State of the Union: von der Leyen focuses on independence, competitiveness and the climate
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times”: Ursula von der Leyen quoted Dickens’s words describing the period of the French Revolution at the opening of her State of the...
Construction and the climate crisis: Europe must build for a different climate
For decades, preserving heat to protect people from the cold has been the priority for much of the European construction industry. Today, however, architecture faces a different challenge, one incre...
CBAM: the European Parliament stalls on the emergency clause
Yesterday, 15 September, the European Parliament voted on the revision of the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM), the EU system that taxes the emissions contained in certain goods imported fr...
Anne-Manuèle Hébert: “STEP brings together the decarbonisation and circularity value chains”
STEP by Pollutec is a new two-day event launching at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on 1–2 December 2026, developed by RX France as a focused platform complementing Pollutec, its flagship envi...
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...
The ecological transition according to BRICS: a path that challenges the West
Work continued late into the night: not usually a good sign in international negotiations, and indeed, on the eve of the negotiations, no one was betting on a successful outcome. Yet in New Delhi, i...
Novamont publishes the Impact Report 2025 together with the Sustainability Report
Novamont, a Versalis company (ENI), has published its sixth Impact Report since acquiring benefit corporation status in 2020. Unlike previous editions, the 2025 report introduces a significant chang...
Biodiversity and finance: conference in Rome on the Nature Positive transition
Nature is not external to the economy. Fertile soils, available and good-quality water, functioning ecosystems and biodiversity constitute natural infrastructure on which production, value chains an...
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
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 ...
Biophilia Summit 2026: Sensing, Belonging, Regenerating
How can stronger relationships between humans and nature create stronger people, more regenerative places and thriving communities? This is the central question of the 2026 edition of the Biophilia ...
Climate and air quality, UNEP: every dollar invested generates 15 in benefits
Climate change and air pollution are closely interconnected phenomena, yet they are almost always analysed separately. On the International Day of Clean Air for blue skies, on 7 September 2026, the ...
Murat Kurum: “COP31 will deliver results: it’s not about what you want, it’s about what you do”
Trabzon - “The seas have no passports.” On the Black Sea coast in Trabzon, Murat Kurum, Turkey’s Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change and COP31 President-Design...
Getting To the Moon is Not Enough: We Have To Stay There
Giuseppe Sala teaches at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Milano and chairs the Technical-Scientific Committee of BEX – Beyond Exploration, the spa...
August 2026 was the hottest month ever recorded globally
The warning signs were clear to anyone paying attention, given the numerous consecutive heatwaves, but Copernicus data have now confirmed it: August 2026 has entered the climate record books as the ...
Plastics treaty: Cordano presents “Aid to negotiations” but disappoints science
The next informal meeting of heads of delegation on a global plastics treaty will take place in Bangkok, Thailand, from 27 to 30 September. In preparation for the meeting, INC Chair Julio Cordano pu...
The ETS review and carbon credits: how many tonnes, how many credits?
This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter The EU's renewed opening to international carbon credits has moved, within four months, from ...
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...