Sustainability Webinar | 2026 Best Paper Award Ceremony
Sustainability Webinar | 2026 Best Paper Award Ceremony
Part of the Sustainability Webinar series
28 April 2026
Sustainability, Best Paper Award, Energy Transition, Global Plastic Pollution
Welcome from the Chairs
23rd Sustainability Webinar
2026 Best Paper Award Ceremony
We are thrilled to invite you to this webinar featuring the authors behind the Sustainability Best Paper Award-winning publications.
The Sustainability Best Paper Award is granted annually to highlight publications of high quality, scientific significance, and extensive influence. Evaluation committee members will choose three research articles and one review of exceptional quality published in the journal the year before last, with the winners announced online by the end of February.
In this session, two of the award-winning authors will present their innovative work, which spans critical topics for our future:
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Biomass and Biofuels: Opportunities in the Energy Transition
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Future Projections of Global Plastic Pollution: Scenario Analyses and Policy Implications
Date: 28 April 2026
Time: 14:00 CEST | 8:00 EDT | 8:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 845 9257 3673
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Invited Speakers
Presentation Title: Biomass and Biofuels: Opportunities in the Energy Transition
She holds a degree in Food Science and Technology and is currently a PhD candidate in Agricultural Technologies and Biotechnology at the University of Molise. Her research PhD project focuses on the use of emerging biomasses in the ecological transition, with particular attention to their characterization and the assessment of environmental impacts compared to traditional and renewable energy sources, within the framework of environmental sustainability and renewable energy technologies. She has also been awarded a research fellowship in collaboration with the National Research Council (CNR), within research activities aimed at promoting studies on environmental issues and energy security.
CEARC, Department: Observatoire de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines – Université Paris-Saclay , France
Presentation Title: Future Projections of Global Plastic Pollution: Scenario Analyses and Policy Implications
Mateo Cordier completed his PhD in 2011, and since 2012 he has been teaching as an associate professor of ecological economics at Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin (Université Paris-Saclay). He develops ecological–economic models to simulate environmental management scenarios. He is currently working on the shared environmental responsibility principle. He is also dynamising input–output econometric models coupled to system dynamics models applied to ecological issues related to marine habitats and marine plastic debris.
Registration
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Program
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in EDT |
Time in CEST |
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(Sustainability Deputy Managing Editor) Welcome Message |
8:00 - 8:05 |
14:00 - 14:05 |
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Debora Mignogna (Speaker 1) Biomass and Biofuels: Opportunities in the Energy Transition |
8:05 - 8:25 |
14:05 - 14:25 |
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Q&A |
8:25 - 8:35 |
14:25 - 14:35 |
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Mateo Cordier (Speaker 2) Future Projections of Global Plastic Pollution: Scenario Analyses and Policy Implications |
8:35 - 8:55 |
14:35 - 14:55 |
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Q&A |
8:55 - 9:05 |
14:55 - 15:05 |
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(Sustainability Deputy Managing Editor) Sustainability Journal Introduction & Award Introduction |
9:05 - 9:20 |
15:05 - 15:20 |
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Q&A |
9:20 - 9:25 |
15:20 - 15:25 |
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Closing of Webinar |
9:25 - 9:30 |
15:25 - 15:30 |
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