In July 2023, powerful winds swept through the Ticino Park with a force unusual even for an ecosystem accustomed to floods, erosion and the natural rhythms of a river landscape. Gusts exceeding 100 ...
NATO leaders used the 32nd summit in Turkey’s capital, Ankara, to showcase the alliance’s growing military ambitions, reaffirming higher defence spending targets, fresh support for Ukrai...
In recent years, the effects of weather and climate phenomena in Latin America and the Caribbean have rippled across the region—from the Andes to Patagonia, from cities to coastal towns—...
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"Energy security will always be our priority." Wang Hongzhi, head of China's National Energy Administration, wasted no time in getting to the point when presenting the details of the country's 15th ...
Soils feed us, filter our water and support most of the food chain on Earth. But they are also among Europe’s most neglected resources –quietly degrading beneath our feet while we look e...
When Chilean ambassador Julio Cordano was elected the new President of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) tasked with drafting an international plastics treaty, on 7 February in Genev...
Maire has announced that its subsidiary Nextchem, through Cirqlar Tech S.r.l., has acquired a 70% stake in the Italian technology company ETEK S.r.l., which fully owns SISEMTEK S.r.l. The transactio...
There is a precise moment, every November, when Rimini stops being an off-season seaside town and becomes the European capital of the circular economy. The exhibition halls fill with optical sorting...
According to Aristotle, human beings are the only political species. Aristotle, however, lived 23 centuries ago. And despite the influence of his thinking on Western culture, the moral, rational and...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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 ...
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 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&...
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 ...