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Culligan inaugurates its new Italian headquarters in Bologna

Culligan inaugurates its new Italian headquarters in Bologna

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water On Tuesday 3 December, Culligan, th...

COP16 Desertification, UNCCD and JRC publish World Drought Atlas

COP16 Desertification, UNCCD and JRC publish World Drought Atlas

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water Record droughts are becoming t...

COP16 Biodiversity, Countries to Resume Crucial Discussions in Italy in February 2025

COP16 Biodiversity, Countries to Resume Crucial Discussions in Italy in February 2025

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The UN Biodiversity Conference suspended earlier this year in Cali, Colombia, will reconvene ...

Pesticides, Europe uses “guidelines written by the chemical industry”

Pesticides, Europe uses “guidelines written by the chemical industry”

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In the last 22 years EU officials have failed to stop any single pesticide, despite laws supposed ...

COP29, WAP: “Our food system is unfair and unsustainable”

COP29, WAP: “Our food system is unfair and unsustainable”

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The global food system is unsustainable and inequitable, relying heavily on meat production throug...

COP Troika increases fossil fuels production despite promises

COP Troika increases fossil fuels production despite promises

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano At COP28 in Dubai, all delegations agreed on the phrase “transitioning away”, calling ...

COP29, carbon market standards approved (with no negotiations)

COP29, carbon market standards approved (with no negotiations)

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After a troubled launch, as countries scrambled to discuss a few of the trickier points of the neg...

Ecomondo, the water supply chain increases its presence in the Mediterranean

Ecomondo, the water supply chain increases its presence in the Mediterranean

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water The 2024 edition of Ecomondo s...

COP16, DSI mechanism for benefit sharing from the use of digital sequence information approved

COP16, DSI mechanism for benefit sharing from the use of digital sequence information approved

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - In a significant development at the 16th Conference of the Parties (COP16) to the Conv...

Half-time at COP16, where do negotiations stand?

Half-time at COP16, where do negotiations stand?

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Cali - On Saturday morning, 27 October, puffy rain clouds loomed over the Pacific Valley Exhi...

Climate geoengineering needs ethics

Climate geoengineering needs ethics

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Large-scale experimentation with geoengineering, or climate engineering, could entail risks and un...

PFAS, EU Commission restricts use of the ‘forever chemical’ PFHxA

PFAS, EU Commission restricts use of the ‘forever chemical’ PFHxA

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances...

Greek government announces €5.9 billion plan to address water crisis

Greek government announces €5.9 billion plan to address water crisis

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water On September 11, the Greek governme...

Water Integrity Global Outlook, corruption hinders right to water

Water Integrity Global Outlook, corruption hinders right to water

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water On 11 September 2024, the internati...

UN, Guterres appoints Retno Marsudi as Special Envoy on Water

UN, Guterres appoints Retno Marsudi as Special Envoy on Water

This article is part of our thematic channel The Water Observer. Click here to subscribe to our newsletter and receive exclusive contents from the world of water   On Friday, September 13, UN...

Renewable Matter launches the newsletter “The Water Observer”

Renewable Matter launches the newsletter “The Water Observer”

The editorial staff of Renewable Matter is pleased to announce the launch, on Thursday 5 September, of the first issue of The Water Observer, the paper's new thematic newsletter dedicated exclusivel...

PFASs can be absorbed through the skin and reach the bloodstream

PFASs can be absorbed through the skin and reach the bloodstream

PFAS can penetrate the skin and reach the bloodstream, according to the paper Dermal bioavailability of perfluoroalkyl substances using in vitro 3D human skin equivalent models, published in June 20...

The first Euro Mediterranean Water Forum will be held in Rome in 2026

The first Euro Mediterranean Water Forum will be held in Rome in 2026

In 2026, Italy will host the first Euro Mediterranean Water Forum in Rome. The Forum, which has previously focused solely on Mediterranean countries, will for the first time include all European and...

Introducing the new ISO standards for the circular economy

Introducing the new ISO standards for the circular economy

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO), which is responsible worldwide for setting technical standards, has published, after a five-year effort, new international standards aimed a...

Global plastics treaty, the 4th negotiation ended amid stonewalling and misinformation

Global plastics treaty, the 4th negotiation ended amid stonewalling and misinformation

The fourth round of negotiations of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-4) for the development of an international legally binding instrument (ILBI) on plastic pollution was held in Ott...