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EU’s 2035 Engine Phase-Out Under Review as Member States Push Back

EU’s 2035 Engine Phase-Out Under Review as Member States Push Back

Following months of delays and persistent political uncertainty, the European Commission is expected to present its proposal to revise the EU CO₂ standards for cars and vans on 16 December. The re...

Affordable batteries for solar energy when needed

Affordable batteries for solar energy when needed

The issue with solar energy has never been generating electricity, but rather utilising it when needed. For years, photovoltaics have concentrated supply during daylight hours, leaving evening peaks...

Earth may be in crisis, but we can still choose our future: UNEP GEO-7

Earth may be in crisis, but we can still choose our future: UNEP GEO-7

In one of Africa's major cities, Nairobi, Kenya, the seventh session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-7) is being held in early December. In this context, UNEP has published the new&...

RESourceEU, 3 billions for Made in Europe critical minerals

RESourceEU, 3 billions for Made in Europe critical minerals

Three billion euros towards diversifying the supply of critical materials such as rare earths, cobalt and lithium: this is what the European Commission will be putting on the table over the next 12 ...

NextChem launches sustainability-linked finance plan to boost decarbonisation

NextChem launches sustainability-linked finance plan to boost decarbonisation

MAIRE announced that NEXTCHEM has launched its first Sustainability-Linked Financing Framework, a strategic move designed to anchor financial activities to measurable sustainability targets. The &ld...

Soil: over 70% of all countries underestimate its importance in mitigation strategies

Soil: over 70% of all countries underestimate its importance in mitigation strategies

Much is often said – and even more so these days, with COP30 underway in Belém, Brazil – about reducing emissions, mitigating and absorbing CO₂. Much less often, however, is it ...

Italy’s first biogas-powered heating and cooling plant opens in Peschiera Borromeo

Italy’s first biogas-powered heating and cooling plant opens in Peschiera Borromeo

Italy has inaugurated its first integrated district heating and cooling system powered entirely by biogas generated from sewage sludge, marking a significant step toward large-scale circular energy ...

Trentino has a goal: to be the first Italian region with an ESG rating

Trentino has a goal: to be the first Italian region with an ESG rating

Within a global context where competitiveness, innovation, and sustainability can no longer proceed on separate tracks, Trentino has opted to promote a development model capable of integrating them ...

Lavazza’s Tablì Redefines Single-Serve Coffee with a 100% Coffee Innovation

Lavazza’s Tablì Redefines Single-Serve Coffee with a 100% Coffee Innovation

Lavazza introduces Tablì to the Italian market, a breakthrough designed to deliver a truly “100% caffè” experience. The system is the result of a five-year research pa...

Energy Transition at Home and Beyond: E.ON’s Integrated Vision for a Sustainable Future

Energy Transition at Home and Beyond: E.ON’s Integrated Vision for a Sustainable Future

The global energy transition is no longer an abstract aspiration; it is a measurable and accelerating process shaped by technological innovation, policy targets and rising environmental risks. Accor...

Ukraine demands $43 billion from Russia for environmental damage caused by the war

Ukraine demands $43 billion from Russia for environmental damage caused by the war

No silence is more haunting than the one following an explosion. It does not only concern what war takes away from human life, but also what it takes away from nature: forests turned to ash, fields ...

Animal testing: Nearly 400,000 fish used in EU chemical tests

Animal testing: Nearly 400,000 fish used in EU chemical tests

A total of 382,000 fish have been used in completed, ongoing and pending tests required under the European REACH regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) to ...

Omnibus I, green light from the European Parliament: EU sustainability and democracy at risk

Omnibus I, green light from the European Parliament: EU sustainability and democracy at risk

From Brussels - On Thursday 13 November, the European Parliament green-lit Omnibus I, the legislative package pushed by the European Commission with the avowed purpose of “simplifying” t...

EIB and Gruppo CAP sign €100 million deal to modernise Lombardy’s water systems

EIB and Gruppo CAP sign €100 million deal to modernise Lombardy’s water systems

The European Investment Bank (EIB) and Gruppo CAP have signed a €100 million finance agreement to support the company’s 2025–2030 investment plan. The announcement was made by EIB D...

UNEP: “Recognising ecocide as war crime or crime against humanity”

UNEP: “Recognising ecocide as war crime or crime against humanity”

Dead lands do not forget. They record each bomb, each contaminant, each burned hectare like a new geological layer of violence. They are the most accurate archives of war, much more reliable than mi...

Startup, Collie: an App and a Collar to Manage Grazing Herds Remotely

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 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

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

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 ...

Sardinian Link: Terna’s 300-Million-Euro Investment to Power a Greener Sardinia

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...