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A dual energy dependence between Azerbaijan and Italy: ECCO's case study

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Azerbaijan, the host country of the COP29 climate conference in Baku, is certainly not a positive ...

Piano Mattei: the three-card trick at the expense of climate, Africa and Italy

This week, Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee is examining the Mattei Plan (Piano Mattei), the government's strategic framework for Italian African relations. The document, as received by parlia...

FIWARE Global Summit: the tenth edition is about to start

On September 18 and 19, 2024, the FIWARE Global Summit, one of the leading business and open-source technology conferences, will be held. It will be convened by the FIWARE Foundation in collabo...

Hera Group’s Solutions for Circular Decarbonisation

EU climate targets require businesses to undertake rather complex industrial decarbonisation. This radical transformation in the way companies manufacture products and consume energy necessitates th...

Drought in Sicily: what’s happening?

Livestocks drink mud, lakes dry up, grain and forage harvests are down to zero. These are the shocking images coming recently from Sicily, in the midst of a drought emergency. These hardships a...

Used Mineral Oils: How to Save Energy Thanks to Regeneration

Promoting the efficient and renewable use of resources, in combination with reducing waste and energy use: these circular economy principles lend themselves well to the achievement of energy transit...

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...

IFIB 2024, Bologna centre of gravity of the global bioeconomy

IFIB 2024 lands in Bologna.  From 3 to 4 October, the city will host the new edition of the International Forum on Industrial Biotechnology and Bio economy, organised by the Italian circular bi...

Lanza (FEEM): “Mitigation and adaptation are key to the next EU Commission”

What impact will the new Parliament and EU Commission have on the Green Deal? This is the question that companies, finance, and analysts have been asking themselves for days, amidst the tense politi...

CONOU, an Example of a Consortium Economic Model

“From an operational perspective, 2023 was even better than the previous year. We will publish the data soon, but so far, we are happy with the trends. High-quality collection is constantly im...

Electricity grids at the heart of the energy transition

The energy transition is accelerating rapidly. In Italy, according to the proposed update to the National Integrated Energy and Climate Plan (Piano Nazionale Integrato Energia e Clima – PNIEC)...

REbuild 2024, the 10th edition confronts with the “Green Homes” Directive

It is possible to generate new value only by bringing into play economic, social and governance values: REbuild, the event that reflects on how to innovate the construction sector, returns from...

PFAS, at Waste Management Europe a conference on "forever pollutants"

An acronym standing for Per and Poly-Fluorinated Alkylated Substances, PFAS constitute a large family of chemical compounds used in a wide variety of industrial applications and consumer produc...

Digital Twins for Water Resource Management

The need to manage vast quantities of data, simultaneously improving operational and invested capital efficiency, is increasingly driving integrated water service managers to use advanced digital in...

Nature Restoration Law stalled again: Italy among opponents

It appeared that the Nature Restoration Law, a key piece of the Green Deal, was a done deal. Yet a minority of EU members, including Italy and Hungary, once again prevented the adoption of legi...

Althesys: "With a bolder NECP Italians would save 25 billion in bills"

We already knew it: the National Energy and Climate Plan (NECP), is far from ambitious. Rather, it is ambiguous on many points, since it refers to " technological neutrality" regarding energy source...

During the press conference Meloni fails to talk about climate, and neither do journalists

The press conference with Giorgia Meloni lasted over three hours and there was not a single mention of the climate crisis. There were more than 40 questions from reporters to the Prime Minister...