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A Hundred and Fifty Shades of Green
From Evidence to Action Sustainability is not held back by a lack of ambition. Strategies, frameworks, and targets are everywhere. The real challenge lies elsewhere – in turning that ambition into action. This is the starting point of A Hundred and Fifty Shades of Green . Rather than...
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Aligning Innovation, Policy, and Transitions
Three Worlds, One Challenge Sustainability transitions are often described as complex. But complexity is not the real problem. The real challenge is fragmentation. Across Europe, three powerful but largely disconnected “worlds” are shaping the transition to sustainability:...
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Governing Sustainable Innovation in Practice
Governing Sustainable Innovation in Practice What does it take to make innovation truly sustainable? For decades, innovation has been seen as a driver of growth, competitiveness, and technological progress. But as global challenges intensify – from climate change to resource scarcity – it...
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Turning Ideas into Sustainable Impact
From Ideas to Impact: What 46 Innovation Roadmaps Teach Us About Sustainable Change in Europe What does it really take to turn a sustainable idea into real-world impact? Over the past decade, “sustainable innovation” has become a widely used term—sometimes so widely that it risks losing...
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The Paris Agreement for Climate Change: New Opportunities for New Global Leaders
The most impressing fact about the Paris Agreement is that it was concluded after long time of negotiations. The problem with the climate change have been there for a very long time. A hundred and ninety-five countries from around the globe agreed that urgent actions need to be done mutualy and...
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How climate change challenges the ski tourism industry
The world has changed in the last two centuries. The climate changes, caused by the Industrial revolution and our harmful environmental actions. It has become a huge challenge for several industries and the ski tourism is one of them. The climate change and snow, and many other things...
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The unbearable lightness of being right
An expert is a person who know more and more about less and less, until she/he knows everything about nothing. Yes, been there and done that. That’s why projects such as CASI are dramatically important. They make us know more and more about more and more, while at the same time ensuring...
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Energy management systems: bridge between individual commitment and responsibility of companies?
To achieve the climate target, sustainable innovations have to take place not only with individuals but in companies too. Advanced sustainable technology is not enough, information and organisational structures must also become more efficient. These structures can be continuously improved using...
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Commitment to Biking - towards a more sustainable mobility system
Sustainable mobility has been gaining increasing prominence in Europe and Portugal, both by the impact of public investments in large cities (even in those characterized by a trend of little bicycle use) and by the recognition in public policies of their importance as a means of transport. ...
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Europe's eyes on Earth
During the last decade Europe has undertaken substantial research efforts towards the development of Earth observation systems.The most important one has been the Global Monitoring for Environmental Security (GMES), which later on turned into the ongoing Copernicus programme. Copernicus...
