Circular economy and industry

The importance of sustainability indexes

While experts and scholars now agree on the definition of sustainability, the debate on how to effectively measure companies’ social and environmental performance is still ongoing. It also happens on a national level: economists are aware of the limitations of…

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Rivers of plastic

Asia is the continent where the largest number of polluted and polluting rivers are located. On the list of the 50 river basins suffering from the worst conditions, 44 are on the Asian continent with the Philippines, India, Malaysia, China and…

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Plastic pollution, a problem. Especially at sea

Plastics, a curiosity at the beginning of the century, became ubiquitous by the mid decades, seemingly as essential to our way of life as the very air we breathe: Jeremy Rifkin's phrase well summarizes the role played by this material…

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Energy transition: few years left to change course

The next few years will be crucial to achieve the sustainability goals set by the UN Agenda 2030 and, today, the whole world is looking forward to the upcoming COP26, the conference on climate change to be held in Glasgow…

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