economy

Climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development: the key international meetings during 2024

by Emanuele Bompan 29 JAN 2024 13:00

2024 will be a key year for green finance, for the green transition, for advancing the UN Montreal-Kunming Agreement on Biodiversity, for strengthening multilateralism on sustainable development beg...

Used Oils: CONOU's Winning Model

by Editorial Staff 26 JAN 2024 10:30

Approximately 40 years ago, CONOU – Italy’s National Consortium of Waste Oils – became the first to inaugurate an applied extended producer responsibility scheme to collect and reg...

Circularity Gap Report 2024, a roadmap to lead the world towards the circular economy

by Giorgia Marino 25 JAN 2024 14:10

Everyone is talking about it, but few actually practice it: while the circular economy is now a megatrend (considering the number of articles, reports and debates on the topic increased threefold in...

Circular economy, rethinking the built environment in the digital age

by Giorgio Kaldor 18 JAN 2024 10:00

The list of digital innovations that can be applied to the construction sector, one of the most impactful on the environment, is long and varied. Digital twins, artificial intelligence, materials pa...

Satellites Watch Over Us from Above

by Simone Fant 16 JAN 2024 12:00

On November 3, 2023, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck Karnali province in western Nepal. Immediately after receiving the news, the Nepalese Ministry of Home Affairs asked Sentinel Asia to send...

Circular Economy: A Concept at a Crossroad

by Harald Friedl 15 JAN 2024 12:00

Despite the initial enthusiasm and efforts to transition towards circular models, recent data reveal a concerning decline in the global circularity rate. From 9.1% in 2018, the circularity rate...

Lavazza Introduces the First Circular Transition Centre for Coffee

by Simone Fant 30 NOV 2023 12:30

The time has come for the coffee sector to finally become circular, and the right synergies are needed to accelerate the transition. This is the focus of the new Centre for Circular Economy in ...

Automotive, Stellantis focuses on circular economy with a new hub in Turin

by Giorgia Marino 27 NOV 2023 17:30

The Stellantis Group has decided to focus on circularity. They announced it a year ago, and the official ribbon-cutting day came on November 23. The first hub in Europe dedicated to the automotive c...

A circular food system can reverse the overshoot of planetary boundaries

by Ana Birliga Sutherland 21 NOV 2023 12:00

* Álvaro Conde and Alex Colloricchio contributed to this article A global transition towards a sustainable food system is long overdue, scientists agree: and although farming has lon...

What are the Italian Government's priorities for the circular economy? Interview with Vice Minister Vannia Gava

by Emanuele Bompan 07 NOV 2023 11:30

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...