Angelo Richiello

Angelo Richiello is a global trend analyst at Aspenia online. He is also an engineer and the director of Zhu+Rich Sagl, a consultancy firm in business strategy, development, and organization based in Switzerland. Over the past 25 years he has been involved in industrial and organizational projects in Europe, Asia, and North America. He writes on topics such as industrial development, natural resources, energy, and the environment.

The geopolitical power of Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan’s commodities-dependent economy has been suffering since 2014 when oil and mineral prices crashed. In just three years, gross domestic product dropped by 42%, from $235.6 billion in 2014 to $137.3 billion in 2016. A modest…

Le ambizioni europee sul clima

In occasione della Settimana europea dell’energia sostenibile promossa dalla Commissione europea, Ursula von der Leyen, presidente della stessa Commissione, ha dichiarato il 25 ottobre che “l’Unione Europea farà di tutto per rendere la…

Le sfide per la Germania all’appuntamento con un vero ricambio politico

Si può affermare che, oggi, ogni europeo, oltre alle elezioni del proprio paese e degli Stati Uniti, tenga oltremodo a cuore e a mente le elezioni federali della Repubblica Federale di Germania. I 16 Land compongono la comunità più…

The geopolitics of rare earths: how to counter China’s dominance

A few days before Donald Trump ceded the Oval Office to Joe Biden, Beijing drew its sword when the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology declared that it is soliciting public opinion to further strengthen regulation over the rare…

Biden’s energy transition challenge

In living memory, never in any campaign for the presidential elections in the United States have energy policies played such an important role as in the one that has just ended. Evidently, the factual and objective question of climate…

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