Series description
Climate change is the greatest threat the world is currently facing. The challenge that lies ahead requires us to change our perspective and redesign humanity, so it is no longer separate from its ecosystem, but one with the planet it inhabits. The EU has set targets to cut emissions by at least 55 percent by 2030, and to reduce them to net-zero by 2050. Renewable energies, new technologies for food production and the circular economy are key solutions for achieving these Green Deal goals, and many revolutionary seeds have already been planted across Europe to make the future sustainable for the next generations. The net-zero transition has already started and is set to be the next industrial revolution: these innovative technologies lead the way towards climate neutrality, inspiring a virtuous model that will generate a new and sustainable cycle of life.
Biography
Simone Tramonte is an Italian photographer focused on documenting social and environmental contemporary issues.
After obtaining a degree in Economics, he decided to follow his passion for photography and started a freelance career based on a combination of self-produced projects and assignments.
Lately, his interest focuses on analysing the relations between people and the environment and aims at documenting how innovative technologies can shape them towards a more sustainable future.
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Located in the industrial outskirts of Copenhagen, Denmark, Amager Bakke is a combined heat and power waste-to-energy plant. It is not only the world’s cleanest waste-to-energy facility, but also home to a recreational area with its own ski slope, the world’s tallest climbing wall and hiking trails up the building. The plant serves 680,000 people and takes waste from up to 300 lorries every day.
© Simone Tramonte, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Environment, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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The waste collection chamber of the new cogeneration and waste-to-energy plant built by IREN in Turin, Italy. This low carbon emission plant powers the largest district-heating network in Italy, serving almost 9,000 buildings and 880,000 citizens. This cogeneration plant will save 135,000 tons of CO2 each year.
© Simone Tramonte, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Environment, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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The tokamak assembly pit under construction at ITER in Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, in the south of France. The ITER organisation was established to prove the feasibility of fusion power and create a new carbon-free source of energy based on the same principle that powers our sun and stars. ITER is one of the most ambitious energy projects in the world today.
© Simone Tramonte, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Environment, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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Daily operations at the indoor vertical farm of Agricola Moderna, near Milan, Italy. Indoor vertical farming is a sustainable farming method that provides a 98 percent saving on land usage and a 95 percent reduction in water usage.
© Simone Tramonte, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Environment, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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An operator at the Innovafeed industrial production site in Nesle, France. The plant opened in November 2020 and is the world’s largest operating production units of insect proteins. Insect farming is one of the possible ways to a more sustainable food supply. Innovafeed has developed a method of large-scale automated production that respects the natural life cycle of insects.
© Simone Tramonte, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Environment, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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The concentrated solar power plant of Gemasolar in Fuentes de Andalucía in the province of Seville, Spain.
The concentrated solar power plant of Gemasolar in Fuentes de Andalucía in the province of Seville, Spain. Gemasolar is the first commercial plant in the world that is able to supply the grid with a full day of uninterrupted power. The system stores the excess thermal energy produced during daylight hours and provides the energy required to ensure the plant can remain operational for up to 15 hours without sunlight.
© Simone Tramonte, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Environment, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards
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A view of Middelgrunden offshore wind farm from Amager Strand, a very popular beach in Copenhagen. Middelgrunden wind farm is producing electricity for more than 40,000 households in Copenhagen. Danish citizens have played an important part in turning the country into a strong wind-powered nation; today, 14.4 percent of Denmark's electricity consumption is provided by wind.
© Simone Tramonte, Italy, Shortlist, Professional competition, Environment, 2023 Sony World Photography Awards