Steel is one of the materials with the highest carbon footprint in the world. For every tonne produced, two tonnes ofCO2 are released into the atmosphere. This is a critical climate balance, but one...
UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission recently published ten White Papers addressing specific challenges of the Decade of the Ocean. These papers represent a collective effort to devel...
Extreme weather conditions, increasing temperatures, and decreasing rainfall are putting unprecedented stress on coffee plantations in Yemen. In the country's mountainous regions, where coffee crops...
The Think Tank section of issue 51 of Renewable Matter, dedicated to the Mountain, features an all-female panel. We have once again brought together some of the most authoritative voices at the...
The transition to a circular economy is not just a lofty environmental goal; it is a critical imperative for cities worldwide. Urban areas are the engines of global economic growth, responsible...
In the age of the green transition, the core business of Energy Service Companies is expanding. Created to provide energy services and offer solutions for efficiency and usage management, some of th...
At Circularity 24, the leading circular economy conference in the United States, one of the central themes was collaboration as a tool for promoting sustainability and innovation. Among the spe...
The island of Vigur, in the Westfjords region, is home to one of the four hundred 'eider farms' in Iceland that produce nearly 80 per cent of the world's annual eiderdown, equivalent to about four t...
Progetto Manifattura, the historic Trentino-based cleantech incubator, has been part of the birth of many companies in the renewable energy sector. However, few of these have achieved the same degre...
The EmCoin project, developed by the Resconda Association (Conscious REStitution of the Environmental Debt) and the Department of Structural, Geotechnical and Building Engineering (DISEG) at the Pol...
Africa has great potential. This is often heard in a variety of contexts, and this is particularly evident when considering the circular economy. A vibrant landscape of small businesses, many of whi...
This morning, July 1, the Italian Minister of the Environment and Energy Security Gilberto Pichetto Fratin participated in the ceremony for the completion of the superconducting magnets of ITER, the...
Just three weeks after the European elections, the French will return to the polls for legislative elections in a double round on June 30 and July 7. French President Emmanuel Macron made the d...
What impact will the new Parliament and EU Commission have on the Green Deal? This is the question that companies, finance, and analysts have been asking themselves for days, amidst the tense politi...
How can we balance environmental awareness, growth and equity? How should we combine climate adaptation, sustainable city building and social justice? How should we rethink streets, neighborhoods, a...
United Repair Centre (URC) offers an alternative to purchasing new clothes by providing repair services for brands. Established as a social enterprise, URC is a cross-sector collaboration invol...
From June 10-12, the Renewable Materials Conference (RMC) brought together chemical supply chain stakeholders in Siegburg, Germany, working to devise materials and technologies for a future beyond f...
In the evening of Thursday, June 13, the preparatory work of SB60 came to a close and, in the general discontent hovering at the World Convention Center in Bonn immediately following the close of th...
The Renewable Materials Conference kicked off on Tuesday, June 11, in Siegburg, Germany. It’s the world's largest conference on biomass-based chemicals and materials, CCU or chemical recycling...
Soufrière Hills is a 1,467-metre volcano that dominates the Caribbean Island of Montserrat in the Lesser Antilles archipelago. Following a series of devastating eruptions between 1995 and 199...