Tag Archives: CO2 emissions

McKinsey has published recently a most interesting report looking at the 2021-2050 period on the expected evolution of road transportation. It addresses several aspects that over the next 3 decades will change the whole road transportation landscape. The shift towards electrical vehicles will take up steam and already now it …

A new wind is blowing in most parts of the world, raising awareness on the environment and pushing towards greener forms of energy. In turns this pushes towards a wiser use of energy. Sometimes we miss the point that on the one hand we need to reduce the CO2 because …

One thing is clear: the huge amount of trucks needed to transport goods from here to there is staggering and road transport is expected to grow even more in the next 30 years, according to a study by the EU Commission. This does not play well with the goal of …

Concrete (cement) contributes up to 7% to worldwide carbon emission. The amount of concrete produced is staggering: over 4 billion tons per year, with China accounting for over 50% of the total. This generates (see the graphic) over 1.5 billion tons of CO2. Concrete is the second most consumed substance, …

That the climate is changing is part of the folk tradition. I remember my grandparents telling me when I was a kid that “there is no longer the weather, the seasons, we used to have…”. As a matter of fact our perception of the weather is very much tied to …

An interesting article by the World Economic Forum discusses the carbon footprint of cities, an important topic as we are striving to reduce the human society carbon footprint on the planet with the (ambitious) goal to become carbon neutral by 2050 (this is not as good as it might seem, …

Bits seem evanescent: the last photo you took probably was converted into some 50 million bits, the zoom call you just finished, it was a quick one, just 10′,  has brought  2 billion bits to your home (the actual number depends on the number of people in the call and …

It is probably more than 20 years that I have been hearing about the paperless office. At the turn of the century I was still working in a research centre of a Telecom Operator and there was a general agreement that paper was about to disappear. What I saw what …

The steel industry produces every year 2 billion tons of steel to be used in bridges, building, rail and a variety of other applications. To make steel you need coal, at least that is the way we have been manufacturing steel since it was “invented” around 1800 BC in Anatolia, …

It is difficult to find an upside of Covid-19, but following the optimistic wisdom that sees an opportunity in any crises I am giving it a try. Looking at this from Italy, the country where I live, it is doubtless that this crises has forced a shift to the cyberspace, …