Energy Transition in Africa – By Francisco Pimenta de Castro

The Growth of Sustainability Metrics Africa produces only 2% of global CO2 emissions when it comes to energy, when at the same way it integrates some of the most vulnerable countries in the world. Africa not only has the richest solar resources in the world, with a production of 1% of global solar energy, but […]

WASTEWATER AND WATER REUSE

Water is the most fundamental of natural resources and is coming under pressure. And not just in the increasingly dried Middle East or North Africa. Even in Europe, about a third of the landmass and about 11 percent of the population suffers from water shortages. Access to water is increasingly a source of conflict, and […]

BAVARIA : ENERGY REVOLUTION (ENERGIEWENDE)

The Free State of Bavaria is one of 16 German federal states (Bundesländer) located in the southeast of the Federal Republic of Germany. Bavaria is the second most populated federal state (Eurostat, 2018) and  is one of Europe’s most competitive industrial regions with a pronounced specialisation on the automotive industries, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering automation […]

ACQUE REFLUE : ORO BLU DEL FUTURO ?

E’ proprio quello che propongono UN-Water, e Il World water assessment programme dell’Unesco, che ha redatto il rapporto sulle risorse idriche del nostro pianeta ed in particolare sulle acque reflue come risorsa e, che sostiene che una volta trattate, potrebbero dimostrarsi una risorsa di enorme valore, in grado di soddisfare la crescente domanda di acqua […]

WATER CRISIS AND WATER STRATEGIC ACTION

The water crisis in the 21st century, according to some specialists,  is much more related to management than to a real crisis of scarcity and stress. Nevertheless, according to other specialists, it is the result of a set of environmental problems aggravated by economic and social development problems. In 2006 a publication of Dr. Somlyody […]