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Technologies for the environment and energy industry: understanding what they are, where and how they are applied, and forecasting the future advancements these emerging technologies may enable for our planet.

Moreover, issues related to Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) are increasingly becoming a part of not only public opinion but also the financial market.

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Eurocode 8 for earthquake-resistant design - cover Tech4Future [created with GenAI: Ideogram]
Eurocode 8 for earthquake-resistant design: the new European standard introduces risk quantification
17/09/2025
Freelance journalists - concept per T4F [created with GenAI @Ideogram]
Freelance journalists increasingly underpaid and vulnerable: will journalism become a privilege for the wealthy?
12/06/2025
Circular Economy in Construction - graphic concept [created with GenAI: Ideogram]
Circular Economy in Construction: From Demolition to Data, A New Information-Driven Approach
12/05/2025
Comunità Energetiche Rinnovabili (CER) | Renewable Energy Communities (REC) - cover T4F
REC – Renewable Energy Communities: the law is in place but bureaucracy is holding things back
25/04/2025
GANANA Project - India and Italy
GANANA Project: India and Europe unite in the fight against climate change
09/03/2025
Europe Anti-Deforestation - Concept - T4F Cover
Europe’s Anti-Deforestation Challenge: Between Ambition and Reality
22/12/2024
3D rendering depicting - in a natural environment, made of green grass, trees and a watercourse - a parallelepiped partly made of green grass and partly of glass, to evoke the concept of sustainable concrete to decarbonise construction and industry.
Sustainable concrete to decarbonise construction and industry
21/12/2024
3D rendering of water-soluble plastic sheets (credit: RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science).
Beyond biodegradability: exploring water-soluble plastics
28/11/2024
A 3D rendering showing, in the foreground, a series of small, green, fibrous, and three-dimensional discs stacked into a pyramid, evoking plant-based meat products.
Plant-based meat products: how AI is supporting their evolution
06/11/2024
The floating tidal turbine O2 in the heart of the Orkney Islands, part of the Scottish archipelago (credit: University of Plymouth)
Tidal energy: a closer look at the interaction between tidal turbines and complex ocean currents
01/10/2024
A photo depicting a large-scale seawater desalination plant utilising solar evaporation.
Seawater desalination through solar evaporation: moving towards more sustainable methods
09/09/2024
Image that portrays an industrial warehouse with a solar panel on the roof and, next to it, on the left, a large thermal tank, evoking the concept of thermal storage to exploit the heat generated by industry and store the electricity generated by renewable sources.
Thermal storage: harnessing heat for energy storage, a resource for renewables and industry
02/09/2024
Image showing a row of fluorinated gas cylinders (including hydrofluorocarbons) lined up next to each other.
A sustainable method for decomposing hydrofluorocarbons from recycling industrial waste
26/07/2024
Image that portrays, in the foreground, on a wheat field, the formula for carbon dioxide, CO2, in giant characters, where the O is represented by a tree, to evoke the concept of carbon farming, the objective of which is to reduce emissions in agriculture and create the conditions to remunerate agricultural practices that tend towards sustainability.
Carbon farming: AI techniques to quantify CO2 emissions in agricultural soil
09/07/2024
An image depicting a floating Antarctic ice shelf, bathed by the Southern Ocean.
Antarctic ice shelves: AI models for mapping surface meltwater
03/07/2024
A vector image depicting swarms of spherical microrobots (in light yellow) capturing microplastics (small white spheres) and bacteria (green filaments) during a water purification procedure [credit: Adapted from ACS Nano 2024, DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c02115].
Wastewater purification: microrobots with polymeric hands for capturing microplastics and bacteria
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