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...
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...