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Decarbonization is not enough: energy efficiency is the key to true progress

Decarbonization is not enough: energy efficiency is the key to true progress

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Decarbonising our energy supply through renewable sources of energy is absolutely key. But if the ...

Indigenous lands are key to conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change

Indigenous lands are key to conserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation have become priorities on the global agend...

Water is no longer business as usual

Water is no longer business as usual

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano We have entered an era of fierce global competition. To access energy. To access raw materials. To...

Bio-based Polymers worldwide: Status and Outlook

Bio-based Polymers worldwide: Status and Outlook

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano As the New Year begins, let's take a closer look at the current state of bio-based polymers. We lo...

Why We Must Proceed Cautiously in the Bio-based Material Transition

Why We Must Proceed Cautiously in the Bio-based Material Transition

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano A few years ago, I remember reading about houses on a Danish island thatched with thick layers of ...

MMLX

MMLX

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano By 2060, world resource extraction will reach an astronomical 160 billion tonnes per year. A figur...

2025: The Transition Continues

2025: The Transition Continues

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Trade wars with China, an assault on the European Green Deal, the future of UN Earth negotiations,...

Waste not, want not: turning food waste into fertile soil for sustainable growth

Waste not, want not: turning food waste into fertile soil for sustainable growth

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In Catalonia there are 7.7 million residents and approximately 7.9 million pigs. That’s over...

The Labour Party’s Key Climate and Environmental Policies

The Labour Party’s Key Climate and Environmental Policies

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The climate crisis is worsening week by week, yet the measures countries around the world are taki...

An inconvenient Mediterranean truth: Rising tides and sinking futures

An inconvenient Mediterranean truth: Rising tides and sinking futures

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The word “Mediterranean” evokes images of idyllic sun-soaked beaches and waters of var...

Bíos

Bíos

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in inglese How could we trump almost 4 billion years of research and development? Since the appearance of the ...

Ethics for a clean, good and fair digital environment: Sloweb

Ethics for a clean, good and fair digital environment: Sloweb

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Much of what we read in the digital media concerns Artificial Intelligence, the relationship betwe...

Advancing Malaysia’s Green Growth through Circular Economy

Advancing Malaysia’s Green Growth through Circular Economy

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In recent months, several countries in Asia experienced massive typhoon, flash flood, and extreme ...

Rebound effect: an invisible brake on circular sustainability

Rebound effect: an invisible brake on circular sustainability

European measures for the circular transition seem to be struggling to take root: over 87% of resource consumption in the European Union continues to rely on virgin raw materials. In line with the r...

It's time to get specific on how circular economy strategies can service just transitions

It's time to get specific on how circular economy strategies can service just transitions

As climate change’s impact on people becomes increasingly clear, calls for a just transition are growing − but what issues this seemingly self-explanatory term sets out to tackle varies ...

The Circular Economy in the Chemical Industry

The Circular Economy in the Chemical Industry

Circular economy means taking a regenerative approach to resource usage, in order to meet the needs of all 8 billion people on the planet. The Ellen Mac Arthur Foundation’s butterfly diagram r...

The Periodic Table

The Periodic Table

Those who have never closely observed the periodic table of the elements, conceived in 1869 by the Russian chemist Dmitry Ivanovič Mendeleev, have little grasp of the reality they cross in the shor...

Ford, electric car sales down: company changes strategy

Ford, electric car sales down: company changes strategy

On August 21, 2024, Ford Motor Company announced updates to its electrification strategy to accelerate consumer adoption and improve profitability given evolving market dynamics as recent sales...

Looking Upstream

Looking Upstream

“It’s only you townies who use the word nature. And it’s as abstract to you as the word itself. We say wood, meadow, river, rock, things that we can actually point to. Things that ...

Pushing the Mountains Away

Pushing the Mountains Away

"Mountains are mute teachers and make silent disciples," said Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, explaining in one sentence the intimate nature of the highlands and its people. Fragile giants, distant land...

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