Heroes of Tomorrow: UN SDG Action Awards Celebrate Global Changemakers

Held in Rome on 29 October 2025, the eighth annual UN SDG Action Awards Ceremony celebrated changemakers who are transforming inequalities into opportunities and advancing the 2030 Agenda for Sustai...

Postpone and improve: the timber supply chain debates the EUDR

Regulation (EU) 2023/1115, better known as EUDR (European Union Deforestation Regulation), is the tool developed by the European Union to counter global forest degradation and, in particular, the so...

“Intractable” problems? A Door Selection to save carbon credits

“It is highly likely that many of the problems festering in the carbon credit market are intractable, […] systemic problems with deep roots that cannot be solved by incremental changes....

Smart City Expo 2025: the future of smart and sustainable cities

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano It is the time for cities, and never has this statement been so true: over the past few decades, h...

FederlegnoArredo at Ecomondo: the wood-furniture supply chain and the sustainability challenges

The Italian wood-furniture supply chain, predominantly consisting of small and medium-sized enterprises with a long tradition, stands out worldwide for its circularity rate . 96% of companies use su...

EU competitiveness: the call for flexibility opens the door to fossil fuels

Industrial transition is accelerating in Europe, but not all engines are running at the same speed. During the Competitiveness Council meeting in Brussels in early October, Italy forged an alliance ...

China heads towards five-year plan for strategic resilience

The Fourth Plenum of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party has concluded in Beijing. For four days, from 20 to 23 October, the CCP leadership convened in what is traditionally a time ...

Eataly alla Radice, the new product line that emphases transparency and traceability throughout the supply chain

The new brand Eataly alla Radice (Eataly at the Source) is all about supply chain transparency. The project is promoted by Oscar Farinetti's company with scientific coordination from the Univer...

The United States halted the adoption of the Net Zero Framework

The Net Zero Framework (NZF) is the International Maritime Organisation's (IMO) plan for decarbonising the maritime transport sector, aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20-30% by 2020 and...

Think Business, Think Hong Kong 2025 lands in Milan

In a challenging phase for transatlantic trade relations, especially for the green economy sector, looking to China and Hong Kong in particular becomes an opportunity for Italian companies to divers...

Renewable Matter launches its new “Features” section

Renewable Matter launches its new Features section, created to offer an important tool for in-depth analysis of a single topic or economic sector. Features also provide real-time updates on news and...

Gattoni (CIB): Biological CO₂ must be exploited, Italy should strive for biomethane

"Although attention at European level has somewhat shifted from climate issues to energy security, the climate objective remains central. In this sense, even the biological CO₂ produced by our pla...

Hysytech: how biogas can turn CO₂ into a resource

Non-polluting gases, CO₂ turning into a resource, hydrogen and bio-LNG poised to change the way we produce energy. This is the path being pursued by Hysytech, a Turin-based engineering company spe...

Inalca, an energy infrastructure geared towards biomethane

For over twenty years, Inalca, a subsidiary of the Cremonini Group and one of the leading players in Italy and Europe in the production and distribution of beef, cured meats and food products, has b...

The biomethane challenge: limitations and opportunities of the European strategy

Thirty-five billion cubic metres of biomethane per year by 2030. That is the goal Europe has set with the REPowerEU plan, the major project launched in 2022 to reduce dependence on Russian gas and a...

Biomethane, the transition’s missing link

There is a little-known climate lever already in existence in the energy sector: biomethane. This resource can be used to transform organic waste into energy, fertilisers and biogenic CO₂. The Wor...

Maire to Build UK Plant Producing 30 Million Liters of Sustainable Aviation Fuel

Maire has taken a significant step in the global energy transition through its subsidiary NextChem. The company, via its business unit MyRechemical, has been awarded a contract by Altalto Ltd. to de...

The US government shut down: this is why it matters

The United States government shutdown is leading to more pollution and announcements of clean energy project cuts. Beginning on October 1, the US federal government ceased all activity after the Rep...

Water Cycle and Blue Economy Take Center Stage at Ecomondo 2025

Water is increasingly becoming the most transversal sector of the green economy — a crucial resource that embodies the urgency of circular management and sustainable innovation. At Ecomon...

Startup, ENDOless: Artificial Intelligence and Data to Treat Endometriosis

“I spent years battling exhaustion, brain fog, and chronic pain. Doctors ignored it, colleagues didn't get it. Until I finally left corporate life and created a platform where women's pain is ...