COP30, how does the future look for the negotiations?
Climate negotiations are celebrating their 30th anniversary, with the start of the COP in Belém, Brazil, today, Monday 10 November. For the first time in years, I will be following a UNF...
Tropical Forest Forever Fund: the controversial Brazilian project at the core of COP30
It is Lula's crowning achievement, his political legacy for the Amazon: a mega forest fund, the first of its kind, superior to any previous initiative, including the REDD+ carbon credit mechanism. I...
From promises to action: COP30 must deliver where others have fallen short
When world leaders meet this November in Belém, deep in the heart of the Amazon, for the 30th UN Climate Conference (COP30), they will stand at a crossroads. Ten years after the Paris Agreeme...
Water at the heart of COP30: what to expect after the Baku turning point
Within the global debate on the climate crisis, water represents a central paradox. According to experts, it is the element through which approximately 70% of the impacts of climate change manifest ...
BRICS at a crossroads: mutual recognition or Article 6?
Relatively little attention was paid in the Western media to the BRICS summit held in Kazan, Russia, in 2024. Within the course of that summit, the BRICS Partnership on Carbon Markets was launc...
Ecomondo: wooden packaging, sustainability is a joint journey
Of all the circular economy supply chains, wooden packaging is one of the most naturally suited to sustainability: wood is a biogenic material (i.e. a biomass that fixes carbon), biodegradable,...
New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s plans to combat climate change
As of November 4, 2025, New York City voters elected Zohran Mamdani, a 34-year-old Democratic Socialist, as the city’s next mayor. Mamdani’s victory – along with Democratic ga...
Startup, Collie: an App and a Collar to Manage Grazing Herds Remotely
"Virtual fencing allows animals to be managed without direct human labour," Collie co-founder Chris Bloomfield tells Renewable Matter. "By training not only cattle, but animals in general to re...
Feltrin (FLA): Tariffs and EUDR are a Damocles sword; let's revive the sector with EPR and the circular economy
The wood-furniture supply chain is one of the pillars of the Italian industrial system, with a positive trade surplus of €7.9 billion. The sector employs almost 300,000 people and counts over 6...
Beauty and respect for the environment: the new luxury retail spaces
When the luxury world comes up with ideas, designs spaces and shapes concepts, the aim is often to flaunt, fascinate and impress. The risk, however, is that when evaluating a luxury project, only ec...
Sustainable homes: interior accessories from recycled cork
When we open a bottle of wine, often the cork is abandoned on the table and then ends up directly in the unsorted waste bag. As a result, an average of 800 million corks are thrown away every year i...
EPR furniture system: the Italian supply chain foresees a possible European scheme
Extended producer responsibility (EPR), a cornerstone of the circular economy, places the onus on producers to financially support waste treatment and recovery systems, aimed at promoting product re...
Zohran Mamdani Becomes New York’s First Muslim Mayor
Zohran Mamdani won the highly anticipated New York City mayoral election, defeating independent candidate Andrew Cuomo, according to projections by the Associated Press. Mamdani, a democratic social...
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping: 100 minutes for a truce
“Amazing.” That's how Donald Trump, aboard Air Force One on his way back home from his Asian tour, defined the highly anticipated meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, which took pl...
Infrastructure in transition: RM59’s interviews
The Think Tank section of Renewable Matter #59, devoted to Infrastructure, brings together a wide range of visions for the future of global infrastructure systems: from the management of large ...
How Green Is the New Silk Road?
It was back in 2013 that Xi Jinping first announced his vision of an “economic belt along the Silk Road” during a visit to Kazakhstan. What later became known as the Belt and Road Initia...
Brake and Accelerator
Today, journalists' digital desks are overflowing with press releases on research and analysis of economic scenarios. We no longer even notice the scale of certain phenomena. Yet, when claims are ma...
Catia Bastioli: the circular bioeconomy requires an integrated approach
Europe is awaiting a new strategy for the bioeconomy. According to a number of sources at Renewable Matter, a draft document is expected to be submitted at the end of November in Copenhagen, De...
COP30: Time to act for the defenders of the planet
Latin America faces one of its deepest contradictions: it is the most dangerous region in the world for those who defend the environment, yet it is also the birthplace of the first international tre...
Sardinian Link: Terna’s 300-Million-Euro Investment to Power a Greener Sardinia
The Italian Ministry of the Environment and Energy Security has officially launched the authorisation procedure for the “Sardinian Link”, a strategic project by Terna aimed at reconstruc...