COP30, climate change and forced migration in Latin America

Climate change not only destroys territories and ecosystems — it deepens historical inequalities and forces millions of people to move. In Latin America and the Caribbean, where structural pov...

Turning water from a problem into a resource: the challenge of sustainable cities

To counter climate change, we must rethink the way we design and experience our cities: public health, the environment, urban planning and innovation must converge in a single “One Health&rdqu...

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...

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...

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...