From AI to automated orders, digital tools can make short food supply chains more efficient or simply digitalise their problems. Diagnose first, prescribe later, experts warn: “Technology can amplify what works, but also what doesn’t.”From AI to automated orders, digital tools can make short food supply chains more efficient or simply digitalise their problems. Diagnose first, prescribe later, experts warn: “Technology can amplify what works, but also what doesn’t.”

A record-breaking summer has pushed Europe’s grids to their limits, while war, drone attacks on Ukraine’s power network and gaps in gas infrastructure are exposing the blind spots in how Europe plans its energy future. No single energy system model can fully capture these intertwined challenges, researchers argue — but connecting different ones could offer a clearer picture.

As resources grow scarcer and mountains of construction waste pile up, Europe is rediscovering an old idea: the city itself can become a source of materials. And experts say this is no longer optional: “The cities we live in will have to become the biggest mines of the coming decades.”