Ana Carolina Maganha de Almeida, PhD
For EU cleantech and biotech founders working out regulation, networks and the rules reshaping water and nature markets. I believe Biology and Business belong together.
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Regulatory Intelligence: Science And Action For a Climate-Changed World (opens the original)
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I write this from my equatorial Italian home. Life making sure I get the message, so I can pass it on to you, dear reader.A few days ago, I watched "Before the Flood". Leo DiCaprio does a magnificent job and uses bold words that only someone with his influence can say freely. We are not safe anymore. The film, which I had completely overlooked, came out in 2016. A year earlier, the Paris Agreement had set 1.5°C as the limit for the average increase in global temperatures. Maybe I was too cool in
A living lab, a thinking ground (opens the original)
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Old waterways in Italy (opens the original)
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Technology has never been the problem. I insist and persist in this premise. Somewhere in the way we lost the connection. We became industrial to the point in which Wall-E, Disney’s masterpiece seems to be the landscape we are heading towards. Are we heading towards this or there is something more?I am sure that we are capable of finding a way to restore ecological and economic balance. The tasks at hand are two: what is my role? Will enough of us be up to the task?
Bolsena Lake, Central Italy, August 2025 (opens the original)
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Last year, we, like most of northern hemisphere witnessed air fire-brigades stopping forest fires in Italy. I am not sure of the statistcs or the numbers, or the things they did. But I see them everyday in our streets, Lazio, where the state of Rome is, has one of the most impressive fire-brigades you would ever see. The tradition of Italian firebrigade is emotional. Their attitude is what I would like to see in every business, politician and public decision around global heating and climate cha
Updates about Italy and wild fires (opens the original)
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An update about the fires in Italy. The video cuts at the end because my phone got too hot. But the message is there. A few take-home messages:Fire brigade in Italy is outstanding.The mediterranean is too dry and prevention of fires will be essential right now, how: patrols, surveillance, regulations, education, drones, investment. See this post here for a good discussion on what ignites the fires.Our climate has changed, and risk management is the lowest bar to prevent disasters hitting. The ke
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