Fifty million euros to increase both the quantity and quality of recycled rigid plastics: this is the investment made by Aliplast (a subsidiary of the Hera Group), which also received a €7.7 mi...
From 3 to 6 November, Ecomondo will return to the Rimini Expo Centre for its 29th edition, bringing together companies, researchers, institutions and organisations working across the circular and re...
The summer of 2026 saw extreme heatwaves and prolonged droughts that affected the European continent on several occasions. According to Copernicus, by the end of the summer, 52% of Europe had e...
More than 9,000 participants and 200 exhibitors are expected at STEP by Pollutec, a new trade show dedicated to the ecological transition, taking place at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on 1 an...
Gas prices are rising, while electricity is holding up better. But the gap between the two curves is not enough to safeguard Europe’s energy system. Between February and August 2026, EU electr...
Robert E. Hall of Stanford University and Michael Woodford of Columbia University have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for their contributions to the microeconomic foundations...
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September 2015: for the first time, Xi Jinping is received at the White House by Barack Obama. In Washington, climate and the energy transition are at the heart of a rare period of cooperation betwe...
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. ...
“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...
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...
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, 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...
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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
Global temperatures are likely to exceed 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels within the next few years, according to a new UNEP report, Limiting Overshoot, published today, 2 September. The t...
Twelve days of negotiations, 196 Parties, and more than 110,000 people attending across the Blue Zone and Green Zone. In the end, COP17 on combating desertification, held in Ulaanbaatar, one of the ...