Environment & Energy

“Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing”, Winston Churchill supposedly once remarked. “After they’ve tried all the other alternatives.” Whether Churchill ever in fact said this (the evidence is “no”), it is even more…

Il premio Nobel Giorgio Parisi ci dice che “Tutto ciò che vediamo intorno a noi è un sistema complesso, compresi noi stessi. Nel cervello o nell'organismo i neuroni o gli organi si scambiano di continuo messaggi che influenzano il loro…

The recent COP26, which ended on November 13th in Glasgow, has generated conflicting judgments on its outcomes, with some analysts celebrating the reached achievements and others claiming its failure. It is likely reasonable to affirm that…

In the era of decarbonization, ensuring security of supply shall remain one of the key pillars in the energy systems, particularly in the power systems, where energy storage is still a challenge. Two energy security dimensions shall…

The target established first in the 2015 Paris Agreement, and then confirmed in the recent Glasgow Climate Pact, aims to limit the increase of the mean global temperature to 1.5°C with respect to the pre-industrial levels. Scientists…