Climate racism is the absentee at COP28 negotiations
*from Dubai Ecological transition, decarbonization, forest protection, carbon markets. For civil society, these key elements in the fight against climate change often have a double face. Wh...
Emanuele Bompan, is the editor-in-chief of the magazine Renewable Matter. Together with Ilaria Brambilla he authored the book Che cos’è l’economia circolare (“What’s the circular economy”), Edizioni Ambiente, Milan 2016. He has been awarded Middlebury Fellowship for Environmental Journalism and four times winner of the IDR grant by the Eu Journalism Center.
*from Dubai Ecological transition, decarbonization, forest protection, carbon markets. For civil society, these key elements in the fight against climate change often have a double face. Wh...
Will COP28 be the showdown or the beginning of the payback for the oil&gas sector? With a record number of 2,456 accredited individuals associated with the oil&gas sector (among them, 34 fro...
On Monday, December 4th, during COP28, a thematic day on climate finance took place to assess what is the current situation and, more importantly, which are the long-term prospects of a key mechanis...
The Pope's COP28, the oilmen's COP28, the last COP to save the goal of 1.5° C, the COP of adaptation, the COP28 of failure and hope. There are many interpretations, almost divinatory, to be made...
Over the course of my life, I have encountered exceptional trees: the giant sequoias and the secular General Sherman (2200 - 2700 years old) in California, the Lebanese cedars in the Beqaa valley, t...
The Ministry of Environment and Energy Security will take part in the 26th edition of Ecomondo, a leading international event on green transition policies and solutions for the green and circular ec...
*from Brussels The European proposal for an EU Blue Deal picks up speed. On October 26, 2023, the European Economic and Social Committee (EESC), in a packed room at the Charlemagne Building in...
Peak emissions from fossil fuels could be reached by 2025, with the contribution to global energy supply falling to 73 percent by 2030, after for decades it had been stuck well above 80 percent...
The New Space Economy is a strategic sector that Italy must look to more attentively because it can offer precious opportunities across different production areas. From the use of satellite data to ...
In economics, “negative environmental externalities” occur when someone is responsible for something negative (e.g. a farmer using toxic chemicals that spread into the environment) and d...
The cryptocurrency Worldcoin, the digital currency created by Sam Altman, one of the founders of artificial intelligence giant ChatGPT, continues to create buzz. This week, the Kenyan governmen...
Leaving oil in the ground by popular demand. This is what Ecuadorians approved yesterday in a historic referendum to stop the development of all new oil wells in Yasuní National Park in the A...
Energy communities, customer care, highly decarbonisation-focused business, and a clear plan: “Make Italy Green”. E.ON Italia CEO Frank Meyer is an optimistic visionary who is working ti...
On the island of Inhaca, Mozambique, lies one of the most extraordinary observatories of ocean life I have visited as a journalist. Since 1951, the Estação de Biologia Marinha Eduardo ...
The transition towards a global circular economy is gaining more and more traction, but it’s not fast nor widespread enough yet. That’s what emerged from the first two days of the World ...
The most important document of the decade has been published. The official IPCC AR6 Synthesis Report went online at 14:00 on Monday, 20 March. It is the fourth volume of the sixth climate assessment...
The Ventotene Manifesto, penned by Altiero Spinelli and Ernesto Rossi, two of modern Europe’s founding fathers, and the Paneuropa document, written by Richard Nikolaus of Coudenhove-Kalergi, defin...
The EU Circular Economy Stakeholder Conference, the most important summit on the circular economy in Europe, has now reached its 6th edition. On 27 and 28 February, 500 policymakers, analysts, trade...
This week, the European Commission published the Green Deal Industrial Plan for the Net-Zero Age. This is the EU’s first move in response to US President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction ...
In the world of robotics and informatics, as well as in the world of the energy transition, the material factor is often ignored. We have imagined android armies, hypercomplex machinery, infinite so...