The climate versus economy debate must no longer be considered a mere challenge involving two opposing factions but rather as a real genuine opportunity for growth to be pursued at global level.

Threats posed to IT systems are evolving quickly and if adequate defensive measures are not put in place, they risk causing considerable damage. The fact that there was a peak in digital attacks in 2020 is largely due to the huge increase in remote working.

In 2020, there was a worldwide surge in the number of cyber attacks affecting the healthcare sector. The Covid-19 pandemic made hospitals, healthcare organisations and vaccine distribution centres very attractive targets for cyber criminals, who wasted no time in exploiting the situation.

Waste management (collection, treatment, selection and disposal of urban refuse) is undergoing big changes, which as well as safeguarding the environment and citizens’ health more efficiently, is bringing a general improvement to that sector, with positive implications for the global economy.

The rise in consumer purchasing in the hi-tech sector recorded in Italy since lockdown highlights an increasingly clear trend towards the purchase of smart devices for the home. The population is effectively converting to the idea of improving their homes using latest generation solutions.

The refrigeration of medicines is a process which relies on the cold chain to enable long-term storage, thereby guaranteeing that medicines retain their pharmacological properties until the moment of use.

CR 2021, or China Refrigeration, is one of the most important events for Asia’s cold industry. Now in its thirty-second year, this international trade fair focuses on refrigeration, air-conditioning, heating and ventilation, frozen food processing, packaging and storage.

Data centres are a fundamental element of IT infrastructures, as they allow any IT system to function 24 hours a day. They consist of enormous rooms which house servers, storage, continuity groups and other equipment required to manage processes, communications and services for companies and private citizens.

Refrigera 2021 has been postponed again. An announcement stating the new (and hopefully definitive) dates was released by the organisers of this important Italian trade fair focusing on the refrigeration industry a few days ago.

The issue of printing documents in the Covid era is quite challenging, especially for workers who have suddenly found themselves obliged to work from home. Previously, the printer was an essential feature of any office, but this was not necessarily the case in the domestic environment.

Following the pandemic, the price of raw materials increased dramatically, mainly due to the long period of inactivity that mines were forced to undertake, as well as a sudden economic recovery in countries such as China and the United States.

The EU’s current energy strategy features some strong and some weak points. This inconsistency is mainly due to the insufficient effort invested by the majority of countries who signed the Paris Agreement in reaching decarbonisation targets.