Biodiversity Materia Rinnovabile

Climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development: the key international meetings during 2024

by Emanuele Bompan 29 JAN 2024 13:00

2024 will be a key year for green finance, for the green transition, for advancing the UN Montreal-Kunming Agreement on Biodiversity, for strengthening multilateralism on sustainable development beg...

Ten words for 2024

by Emanuele Bompan 01 JAN 2024 07:00

Another year has come to an end. There are those who reflect on these past twelve months while others prefer to look to the year ahead. We of Renewable Matter, who by nature are always looking ...

Restoration Law: there is an agreement, but it is still far from what science requires

by Antonella Ilaria Totaro 15 NOV 2023 11:00

Late in the evening of Thursday, November 9, 2023, negotiators from the Parliament, Commission and Council reached a tentative political agreement on the European law on nature restoration. After a ...

Man and Forests: It's All a Matter of Timescale

by Giorgia Marino 14 NOV 2023 08:44

Time, complexity, resilience. These are the three key concepts on which the health and survival of any forest ecosystem is based. Three interrelated characteristics in a tight cause-and-effect chain...

If a Tree Falls

by Emanuele Bompan 14 NOV 2023 08:20

Over the course of my life, I have encountered exceptional trees: the giant sequoias and the secular General Sherman (2200 - 2700 years old) in California, the Lebanese cedars in the Beqaa valley, t...

Ecuador, a referendum for the future

by Emanuele Bompan 25 AUG 2023 07:15

Leaving oil in the ground by popular demand. This is what Ecuadorians approved yesterday in a historic referendum to stop the development of all new oil wells in Yasuní National Park in the A...