Roughly one article a week during term, written and signed by members of the Blog division: energy, climate, ESG, finance, food, cities and the politics behind them. Reports are here too.
Artificial intelligence has come to dominate the technology sector. However, there is no AI without energy – specifically energy for data centers. With its rapid acceleration in development and uptake, and growing concerns about the ethics…
For many years, the rule of luxury fashion had been set in stone: new bags, high status. Nowadays, history is rewriting itself,…
Even though it could feel slightly counterintuitive, oftentimes sustainable innovation fails at ameliorating the overall adverse environmental impact induced by a combination…
With a second energy shock hitting the continent in less than a decade, Europe’s structural issues related to energy dependency are becoming…
The environmental consequences of fast fashion have been ubiquitously known for decades. With the mass production of cheap garments polluting the Earth…
We all know climate change is real. We all know that the world is getting hotter, the sea levels are rising and…
Energy transitions are inevitable, but they impose concentrated costs on specific workers and communities while distributing diffuse benefits widely. It is both…
Every time you buy a piece of meat, you are also buying land use, emissions, and invisible costs that rarely appear on…
Industrial decarbonization is increasingly recognized as a decisive element in the global effort to achieve net-zero emission targets. In 2022 the manufacturing…
Across the sun-soaked plains of southern Spain and the windy plateaus of the country’s interior, an intensive energy transformation is underway. Solar…
Three things come to mind whenever you think of Italy: pizza, pasta, and coffee. The importance of coffee in Italian society cannot…
Milan is a city that never rests: fast-moving, ambitious, and always on the rise. The city pulses with trams, metros, scooters, and…
