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.

How Germany is tackling a delicate phase in its energy transition

The annual Petersburg Climate Dialogue was held on April 27th and 28th, not in its usual Berlin format as a world congress with in-the-flesh government officials from more than thirty countries, but in videoconference mode. Participants…

The auto industry in a changing economy

A few days after Mary Barra had been appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of General Motors, she said that she expected to see more change in the auto industry in the next five years than in the last fifty. That was in 2014.…

Germany’s ambitious green goals

According to the European Statistical Office in Luxembourg, Germany is, by far, the largest carbon emitter in the EU, with a share of almost 21% of the total emissions in the EU-28. On a global scale, Germany is among the top ten emitters,…

Palladium, the car industry and a Chinese mystery

Last fall, police in the UK reported that gangs were stealing catalytic converters from cars, often in the middle of the day just by using a wrench or a portable mobile saw, then selling the devices to metal receptors. In a few days the…

The EU’s environmental policies: a partial success story

In December 1997, in the ancient imperial capital of Kyoto, leaders from more than 180 countries gathered to discuss and agree on how to reduce the global warming caused by carbon dioxide emissions produced by human activities. At the time,…

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