Biodiversity and Health: A Vital Alliance for Our Future
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Nature is fundamental to the health of people and communities. But when the word “biodiversi...
Corporate renewable procurement: greenwashing or key driver of the EU’s clean industrial deal?
In 2023, the amount of renewable energy purchased by businesses and corporations in Europe grew by over 52%, reaching 20 GWs. However, several academic papers like Bjorn, A. et al. (2022) have ...
Climate-Biodiversity-Water Nexus: the protection of ecosystem services in South America
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In recent years, major and historical-record wildfires have devastated regions worldwide, includin...
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...