Abhimanyu Chakravorty

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Interlinked crises need interlinked responses, NOW: New IPBES Nexus Assessment report

Interlinked crises of biodiversity loss, climate change, food and health insecurity and pollution require interlinked responses, now! This was the main key message of the latest Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) report titled “Nexus Assessment” released last week, which emphasises the urgent need to think and act holistically instead of making separate

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Researchers’ Night: How do you explain W2W project to kids? NTUA’s polymer tech researchers take on challenge

What does pasta and PLA (biodegradable polymers) have in common? They are both derived from the same initial source: wheat! Imagine explaining this linkage to kids, and you have task cut out for you! Researchers at the Laboratory of Polymers Technology (NTUA-LPT) had a field day at the Researchers’ Night, a pan-European initiative held in

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W2W Plenary in Thessaloniki: A Time To Reconnect, Review Progress, Mitigate Challenges and Drive Project Forward

The Wood2Wood project plenary in Thessaloniki was packed with updates from consortium partners, covering a wide range of topics: valorisation pathways, mapping existing wood waste stakeholders, the functioning of Cobots (human-robot collaboration), mixed reality systems for enhanced separation and sorting, and cascade refinement technologies for wood waste upcycling, among other innovations. The project plenary, organised