Latest Environment Insights
Ambiente · 01 ott 2025
Innovazione nella lotta ai rifiuti
Una gestione dei rifiuti e un riciclaggio efficienti sono fondamentali per garantire al nostro pianeta un futuro sostenibile. NG Nordic è un’azienda che mette a punto soluzioni innovative.
Ambiente · 12 mag 2025
L’ansia per il clima - Hannah Ritchie
L’oxoniana Hannah Ritchie spiega perché l’ottimismo è sostenibile.
Ambiente · 05 mag 2025
Lo stato degli investimenti per il clima
Una nuova ricerca di Pictet in collaborazione con l’Institute of International Finance evidenzia l’ampio divario tra gli investimenti effettivi e quelli necessari per raggiungere l’azzeramento delle emissioni nette («net zero»).
Ambiente · 04 mar 2025
Tracciare la transizione energetica
Gli investitori alle prese con le opportunità e le complessità delle energie rinnovabili.
Ambiente · 24 feb 2025
Il percorso di Iberdrola verso la sostenibilità energetica
Ignacio Sánchez Galán, Presidente di Iberdrola, uno dei principali produttori e distributori di elettricità, spiega in che modo l’azienda affronta la transizione energetica
Ambiente · 06 feb 2025
Per vincere la sfida della crisi climatica non basta mirare alla luna
Nella lotta al cambiamento climatico è altrettanto importante puntare sul miglioramento delle tecnologie esistenti.
Ambiente · 19 nov 2024
Renewable natural gas: turning trash into low-carbon energy
First used by the Assyrians, biogas is evolving into a viable low-carbon solution that could yield a number of environmental and financial benefits.
Ambiente · 21 ott 2024
Resilienza e rigenerazione
La resilienza planetaria tramite la rigenerazione dei nostri servizi per gli ecosistemi - dal clima alla biodiversità - sarà cruciale per il perdurare della nostra capacità di prosperare a lungo termine. In queste risposte, spieghiamo cosa questo significhi e le implicazioni per gli investimenti.
Ambiente · 13 giu 2024
Curbing the tide of coral degradation
After witnessing the obliteration of a coral reef, due to rising sea temperatures, marine biologist Vriko Yu founded Archireef, a startup dedicated to the restoration of degraded marine environments using 3D printing technology
Ambiente · 05 giu 2024
Crisi climatica: i rischi di transizione verso l’obiettivo net-zero
La maggior parte degli investitori concorda oggi sul fatto che la creazione di un’economia net-zero non sia più una scelta ma una necessità; tuttavia, da qui a 5 o 7 anni il processo di transizione potrebbe rivelarsi particolarmente difficile.
Ambiente · 08 mag 2024
Pioneering sustainable solutions in waste management
Successfully taking over a family business is perhaps no easy task, but Iiro Kankaansyrjä has transformed and streamlined his father’s 40-year-old Finnish waste management company, Kapasity Oy, and launched a tech-driven startup, EasyWaste.
Ambiente · 02 apr 2024
Closing the loop in textile recycling
It is not possible to recycle most fabrics with current methods, meaning millions of tons of fast fashion clothes that are thrown away each year end up in landfill. One start-up is looking to change that.
Ambiente · 02 apr 2024
Don't underestimate the energy transition
Diego Diaz Pilas, the global head of technology and ventures at Iberdrola, offers insights into the speed of the energy transition and its challenges in this conversation with Mega.
Ambiente · 20 dic 2023
Closing the loop in textile recycling
It is not possible to recycle most fabrics with current methods, meaning millions of tons of clothes that are thrown away each year end up in landfill. Sydney-based startup Phoenxt has developed innovative chemical processes that successfully turn old garments into beautiful new textiles.
Ambiente · 15 dic 2023
Sophie Chapman, EcoBricks
Paving the way with recycled plastics
Ambiente · 05 dic 2023
Reducing CO2 through eco-architecture
Buildings are responsible for a significant percentage of global carbon emissions, which is why trillions of dollars will be poured into green architecture in the next decade. But for pioneering Malaysian practice Hamzah and Yeang, ecological design has been its focus since the 1970s.
Ambiente · 10 nov 2023
Stemming the tide of plastic pollution
A Dutch startup has developed an effective method of trapping plastic pollution in waterways with bubbles. Their award-winning Bubble Barrier technology is already being implemented in the Netherlands and further afield in Europe, as they prepare to go international.
Ambiente · 23 mag 2023
Calculating climate impact with each transaction
We calculate the financial cost of everything we do. Doconomy helps calculate the planetary cost.
Ambiente · 20 apr 2023
La fotografia: un'arte universale?
Pictet NextGen Italia
Ambiente · 14 apr 2023
Rethinking climate change mitigation
Sir David King, the founder and chair of Cambridge University's Centre for Climate Repair, offers some novel solutions to tackle climate change– from refreezing the Arctic to filling the oceans with artificial whale poo.
Ambiente · 29 nov 2022
Raising the standards of carbon credit schemes
Niklas Kaskeala’s job is to make life difficult for his clients. The chief impact officer of Compensate is in the frontline of the war against greenwashing, and he has no hesitation in speaking truths that some may not want to hear.
Ambiente · 24 nov 2022
Turning waste products into carbon capture
The carbon reduction revolution is progressing at pace – and Carbo Culture is at the forefront.
Ambiente · 05 ott 2022
Your power in the fight against climate change
Anxiety over climate change is widespread today, but we should remember that we can make a positive impact through both our individual decisions and actions within our communities.
Ambiente · 01 set 2022
Power of Conversation: An evening discussion with Pictet Wealth Management and Conduit Capital
What will it take for investors across the board to invest for both profit and purpose – and why is it taking so long to reach the critical mass we urgently need?
Ambiente · 01 ago 2022
A new twist in the US clean energy saga
Michael Gerrard, a leading expert on US environmental law, explains why the US Supreme Court's ruling to curtail climate change regulation won't derail the country's clean energy drive.
Ambiente · 01 ago 2022
Clean Energy Chronicles
Chris Goodall, economist and author of the widely-acclaimed 'What we need to do now for a zero carbon future', provides his unique take on the latest developments in the clean energy industry.
Ambiente · 20 lug 2022
The corporate journey to net zero
In 2021, Pictet committed to reducing net greenhouse-gas emissions to zero by 2050, including shorter-term interim target setting aligned with a 1.5°C scenario. The commitment marks the first step in a complex journey through unchartered territory, which we will endeavour to navigate with a Climate Action Plan that will be published in the autumn.
Ambiente · 07 lug 2022
How to drive philanthropic efforts to tackle climate change
Jane Burston was Head of Climate and Energy Science in the UK government, before becoming the founding executive director of the Clean Air Fund, empowering those working to make the world’s air breathable.
Ambiente · 01 lug 2022
Cities in nature
Singapore shows how cities can become increasingly integrated with nature.
Ambiente · 01 lug 2022
Earth Overshoot Day: consuming like there's no tomorrow
The world appears to have unwound all the environmental progress made during the pandemic as our consumption of natural resources is back to unsustainable pre-Covid levels.
Ambiente · 01 giu 2022
Carbon accounting finds its feet
The first step towards net zero is calculating how much carbon we emit today and where. Carbon accounting start-ups are rising to the challenge.
Ambiente · 17 mag 2022
A beginner’s guide to ESG-labelled bonds
Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and getting to a net-zero carbon economy is as much, if not more of a financial, than a technology challenge.
Ambiente · 01 mag 2022
Clean energy chronicles
Chris Goodall, economist and author of the widely-acclaimed 'What we need to do now for a zero carbon future', provides his unique take on the latest developments in the clean energy industry.
Ambiente · 26 apr 2022
Creating sustainable food from algae
Isaac Berzin is an Israeli scientist and entrepreneur who worked at MIT’s Center for Space Research and has been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people for his work on algae and sustainability. He is now co-founder and chief technology officer of Vaxa, a start-up that farms algae to make sustainable food ingredients.
Ambiente · 21 apr 2022
How to help combat climate change as a philanthropist
Leaders and non-governmental organisations across the globe have declared climate change as the single biggest health threat facing humanity[1].
Ambiente · 14 apr 2022
Batteries powered by oceans’ treasure
Electric vehicles are a key part of halting climate change, but they require a lot of rare metals. The answer to that problem may lie at the bottom of the ocean.
Ambiente · 14 apr 2022
Using Art to Change the World
Ambiente · 07 apr 2022
Powered by plants: Hong Kong looks to future beyond meat
David Yeung asked meat-loving Hong Kongers to stop eating meat once a week. Ten years later, his Green Monday movement is transforming the diet of people beyond the territory.
Ambiente · 03 apr 2022
Winds of change
The risks of inaction – or insufficient action – on climate change are rising. Governments and businesses that neglect their responsibilities will be held accountable, if not taken to court.
Ambiente · 20 mar 2022
Clean energy chronicles
Chris Goodall, economist and author of the widely-acclaimed 'What we need to do now for a zero carbon future', provides his unique take on the latest developments in the clean energy industry.
Ambiente · 15 mar 2022
Clean energy chronicles
Chris Goodall, economist and author of the widely-acclaimed 'What we need to do now for a zero carbon future', provides his unique take on the latest developments in the clean energy industry.
Ambiente · 11 mar 2022
Energy transition: shaping humanity’s low-carbon future
In a new book, scientists prove that the world already has a number of innovative technologies to reduce energy and electricity-related carbon emissions. There is simply no excuse, then, not to act now.
Ambiente · 24 nov 2021
Demystifying Net Zero
Ambiente · 21 ott 2021
How investment and philanthropy can combine
Nachson Mimran, together with his brother Arieh Mimran, runs a philanthropic and creative platform, and venture fund, and is a leading next-generation investor and thought leader in sustainable investing.
Ambiente · 22 set 2021
Sissel Tolaas wants to reconnect humanity through our sense of smell
Sissel Tolaas wants to reconnect humanity through our sense of smell
Ambiente · 01 lug 2021
Frédéric Rouzaud on creating sustainable luxury wines
Frédéric Rouzaud, managing director and owner of Louis Roederer, has expanded the family business to 12 prestigious wineries from Bordeaux to California, and a luxury hotel in the French Alps, and created a focus on sustainability across the brands.
Ambiente · 18 mag 2021
The rise of impact investing
From school children to central bankers to the world’s wealthiest business leaders, the awareness that we as individuals and as investors have a responsibility and accountability over our decisions has sharpened over the last few years. Within the toolkit we have to influence positive change around us, investing serves as a means of transforming our best intentions into tangible action.
Ambiente · 23 apr 2021
The global journey to net-zero could create a historic investment opportunity
In 2015, nearly every country in the world adopted the Paris climate agreement, pledging to limit the global temperature increase to well below two degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.
Ambiente · 15 apr 2021
Water is at the heart of Hallstein’s business and its charitable giving
Anyone who knows a thing or two about fine wines will understand the vital role played by terroir. A region’s unique climate and the minerals and nutrients held in its soils are all fundamental elements in the complex alchemy that produces a world-beating vintage.
Ambiente · 23 mar 2021
On is designing a more circular and sustainable future
In Conversation with Viviane Gut, Head of Sustainability at On
Ambiente · 17 feb 2020
How the private members’ club is being reimagined as an ethical forum
If you needed any further proof that ethical is now both aspirational and desirable, then you need only step through the doors of The Conduit.
Ambiente · 30 gen 2020
How a new ‘micro-drink’ is disrupting the USD 600bn beverage industry
While working at the Boston Consulting Group, Martin Murray harboured a desire to venture into the beverage industry.
