Road to Forest Valley - Climate Talks

Teresa Agovino explained how, with her startup Faroo, intends to pursue a sustainable style of tourism which creates only positive impacts for the planet.

Fabio Dalmonte and his colleagues from SEADS, told us how they put circular economy principles into practice, succeeding in reusing plastic collected from rivers.

In this episode, Giacomo explains how difficult it is to create an industrial symbiosis and how, at BugsLife, they have harnessed it to create a sustainable insect-based protein flour.

Luca Medeghini and his colleagues at AIRA have found a device that responds to the problem of rubbish left on the ground during concerts and events: which can also be extended to city use!

Shyaam illustrates the benefits of building relationships among companies: finding the right partner that can influence the whole network and sharing sustainable innovations with it.

Noemi De Santis is the co-founder of Junker: an app that scans product labels and tells you where to throw them away, helping you to sort your waste easily, quickly and above all without mistakes.

In this episode Rob talks about how to integrate Sustainable Development Goals in companies. In the role of judge in fact, there are the youngest generations: they expect companies absolute transparency and to make a significant contribution towards achieving a greater ethical goal. Purenessity is a consulting company that helps the process of building brands around purpose and supports the integr...

In this episode we explore the meaning of sustainability in business and its crucial link with ethics. How can ethics be applied to different types of business strategies both for start-ups and established companies, and some useful tips on how to start a journey towards sustainable ethics. "What I'm trying to signal, and I try to research in my work, is that sustainability transformation requires...

Environmental Grants helps conservationists from all around the world to find available funds, coming from the private and public sectors and related research for environmental and wildlife research management and conservation.

Katerina explains how a house can be sustainable and compostable by using the rice waste and how it can last up to 70 years.  "From the beginning of our activity in 2016, we managed to reduce around 400 tons of CO2 just by preventing the burning of the rice residues. And to this data, we need to add up the CO2 that is trapped during the life cycle of the buildings...in fact, the rice husk and...

If you think recycling is the solution for a more sustainable economy, well, unfortunately you are wrong: from a Circular perspective is the worst option! What are better ones then? Fabian Takacs, from St. Gallen University examines the concept of circular economy with a focus on business model innovation and ecosystems. Small and medium enterprises that want to transition to a circular product of...

In this episode, Serena Rebecca Moro from Cikis, a sustainable fashion consultancy, interviews Dario, trying to revolutionise the textile industry step by step with Muntagnard. 

Ryan talks about how the ecosystem approach works in Agrifood innovation.  “We defined challenge areas, one around sustainable agriculture, on digital traceability, circular economy and healthy nutrition. With those we can attract these business people and these tech people together, and come together to find each other's co-founders and try to solve or build a startup together”.

Patricia talks about circular economy and strategies that can act as a vehicle to address the 9 planetary boundaries. What does it mean to build a sustainable business model and how can organisations join forces to guarantee a sustainable living for current and future generations?  “What is really important to us is to set the topic of circular economy within the context of the planetary boun...

Phil talks about how collaborative innovation and information transparency, enabled by blockchain, could unlock the potential of Circular Economy, by informing decision making. Circularise provides the information highway to do so. A system for actors in the chain to upload the relevant info for materials, components and products, while keeping proprietary and sensitive data behind the 'zero...

Alessandro illustrates the impact and technical challenges associated with recovering oil spills in waters. With Test1 he patented Foam Flex 200, a sponge designed to be very effective in absorbing high quantities of oils in different contexts. "The main problems with oil spilling are environmental and human damages and costs (oil lost plus clean up costs). Foam Flex 200 is not toxic, reduces by 1...

Giovanni Bottazzi, Head of Sales at Plastic Bank, tells us about his transition from consumer good corporates to a social store chain where plastic waste turns into currency for local communities. "We are not in the business of fighting for price. We are in business of fighting for change and for the world, and we believe that the world doesn't change at commodity price."

Brian - Post Doctoral researcher in circular economy business models at Technische Universiteit Delft - explains the gap between academic research and business practice and illustrates tools to facilitate circular economy transition. "We require establishing collaborative capacity between multiple organizations. And this is not only a technical challenge, but it's also a social challenge. You need...

"Pioneers, entrepreneurs and citizens building tomorrow's economy can be found everywhere. Now, in order to make the big scale needed transition happen, we need ambitious political action. Time is running and it has never been more needed to act fast, together."

Valerio Barberis - Deputy Maior on Urban Planning, Environment and Circular Economy at Municipality of Prato - shares his experience as public administrator of Prato, a city that is becoming a reference point at European level for urban forestry, circular and collaborative economy practices "We need to engage all the stakeholders of the cities, but also citizens, children in schools, with a cohere...

Grammenos Mastrojeni, Deputy Secretary General of the Union for the Mediterranean, talks about the importance of cooperation dynamics at different levels and the related barriers. "We discovered that what is unsustainable is not development, but unfair development. A development that leaves out women and more fragile communities is not sustainable for nature."

Alessandro Galimberti, Senior Socioeconomic Development Expert and Technical Advisor for Energy, Clean Cooking and Climate Change and Urban Develop at AVSI, illustrates the main issues related to the introduction of sustainable cooking in developing countries. "The digital gap is an important issue but it does not impede you to bring innovation in developing countries. The lack of a technology bac...

Celeste illustrates the impact of sustainable agronomics practices and the role of being an activist in everyday life. "Also at an international level, everyone is aware about the potential that humanity has in combating climate change. It's just a matter of doing it because we have all the tools we have all the resources we need."

Oriana, Head of the OECD program of Circular Economy in Cities and Regions, explains the role of policy makers and local authorities in the transition from a linear to a circular economy. "While climate change is one of the major driver for cities to apply circular economy, in reality circular economy is about how economic activities or services and infrastructure in cities can change"

Enzo, co-founder at ECo, illustrate the role of communities as an instrument to move individuals and businesses to innovative sustainable behaviours. " At EcoChange we are helping companies in achieving their sustainability goals via a rewarding transformational journey, a step by step approach which is sustainable from both an economic and environmental level. "