Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Laura Cavalli Author-WorkPlace-Name: Fondazione Enrico Mattei, SDSN Italia Author-Name: Giulia Lizzi Author-WorkPlace-Name:Fondazione Enrico Mattei Author-Name: Stefania Toraldo Author-WorkPlace-Name:SDSN Italia Title: Italy after five years from the adoption of the 2030 Agenda: a quantitative review Abstract: In order to promote the achievement of sustainable development at the global level, the signatory States of the 2030 Agenda, with Italy among them, starting from 2015, committed to define policies and strategies to guide the coordination and the cooperation of different actors and at different levels, and to encourage the application of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and their targets from the global to the local level. With the elaboration of the National Strategy for Sustainable Development (SNSvS), Italy has played and is still playing a key role in the implementation process of the SDGs: by making use of monitoring, control and evaluation tools, our country is helping in tackling those systemic and enduring obstacles which prevent the realization of an economic growth compatible with both the constraints of the existing physical limits of our planet and with social equity. With the aim of promoting knowledge, awareness and information on the value of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals, the following Report reveals where Italy stands five years after the 2030 Agenda adoption by providing a quantitative focus on the results achieved at date within the international, national and local panorama. Journal: FEEM Report Year: 2021 Month: March File-URL: https://www.feem.it/m/publications_pages/rpt-agenda-2030-eng1.pdf File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:fem:frepor:2021.01 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Marta Marini Author-WorkPlace-Name: Politecnico di Milano Title: African Cities: Is there Space for Circularity? Abstract: In this report several definitions of circular economy reported in the literature are introduced and discussed. From the first definitions where Planet Earth is described as a closed system with limited assimilative capacity, to the evolution of the concept focused on raw materials, resource flows and closed loops. A particular emphasis is then given to the application of circularity to the urban context, focusing on the African continent. The problem with the concept of urban circularity is that still remains on general assumptions due to a lack of examples about circular cities and an overall confusion in defining the indicators that make circular a city; the document proposes some frameworks to define it. The few cases known are mostly focused on high-income economies, indeed in Africa the difficulty of acquiring information on cases of circularity is challenging due to a lack of literature. Nonetheless, the absence of notions does not exclude the existence of relevant cases of circularity and sustainability. Indeed, making the shift towards circular behaviours might be more ‘intuitive’ in low and middle-income economies, requiring less behavioural changes compared to the richer counterparties. To conclude, this essay attempts to shorten the distance between the academic debate concerning circularity and the on-field initiatives, providing a method to classify the existing case studies in Sub- Saharan Africa. Journal: FEEM Report Year: 2021 Month: April File-URL: https://www.feem.it/m/publications_pages/958-rpt-circularityafrica.pdf File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:fem:frepor:2021.02 Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0 Author-Name: Edoardo Somenzi Author-WorkPlace-Name: Fondazione Enrico Mattei, SDSN Italia Author-Name: Filippo Del Grosso Author-WorkPlace-Name:Fondazione Enrico Mattei Author-Name: Federico Pontoni Author-WorkPlace-Name:Fondazione Enrico Mattei Author-Name: Giulia Vaglietti Author-WorkPlace-Name:Université de Lorraine Title: A Critical Assessment of National Hydrogen Strategies Abstract: The scope of this study is to provide a qualitative, high-level overview of the hydrogen strategies currently being pursued worldwide. Hydrogen is a “hot topic” in the envisaged energy transition, and, consequently, a significant amount of material is currently being published. The definition of strategy is not straightforward, as each country adopts specific criteria to set the pace for the deployment of hydrogen. In our review, we selected only official and government-issued documents, for the sake of completeness we include finalized documents and draft versions alike. Specific attention is paid to the socalled “green strategies”, specifically targeting the roll-out of green hydrogen. We assess the documents across a set of qualitative indicators, based on geography, sectorial differentiation, quantitative target sets, information content and word search. The data is not homogeneous and, where possible, we rely on clustering to infer industry trends and patterns and draw conclusions. We also derive a series of counterfactual considerations from these strategies, in terms of i) objectives pursued, ii) sectorial coverage and iii) internal consistency Journal: FEEM Report Year: 2021 Month: November File-URL: https://www.feem.it/m/publications_pages/958-rpt-hydrogen-strategies-v2-2.pdf File-Format: text/html Handle: RePEc:fem:frepor:2021.04