Innovative zero waste projects in the public and private sectors provide an important opportunity to build local circular economies while avoiding serious environmental harm from plastic pollution and…

First published here Growing up I loved anything to do with the future – particularly the 21st century. TV21 was the comic to read and it was full of stories about life in the 21st century,…

Mafalda Silva is a Senior Researcher at the Institute of Science and Innovation in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering ( INEGI ) at the University of Porto. She has a PhD in Sustainable Energy…

An old saying in Ireland goes: ‘there is no strength without unity’. When it comes to distributed energy resources (DER ), it couldn’t be more true. DER, acting individually, has a very limited…

We are excited to announce that the first innovative Heat Pipe Condensing Economiser (HPCE) has been commissioned at our project partner Alufluor AB in Sweden and is running. The aluminium fluoride…

In the news: Training to be credentialed as a project developer for industrial energy efficiency and energy supply under the Investor Confidence Project will be held on September 11th. For more…

The European Energy Efficiency Financing Coalition (EEEFinCoalition) has been launched today at the European Commission . Its objective is facilitate a dialogue, ensuring a favourable market…

First published here . I was glad to see that Amory Lovins returned to the subject of the size of the energy efficiency resource in a recent paper in Environmental Research Letters . Amory mentions…

The EIP-SCC Matchmaking initiative Join EIP-SCC and ICP at the Smart City Expo World Congress, in Barcelona. The European Innovation Partnership on Smart Cities and Communities (EIP-SCC), promotes social and economic sustainability in cities across…

The following article is the keynote article in the Global Sustain Yearbook 2016/17 by LI Yong, Director General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). Li Yong focusses on…