Water Resilience Strategy EU: grand promises, no obligations
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Bruxelles - A 10% water efficiency target by 2030, but it’s not binding. No new legisla...
The Caspian Sea is drying up, and Kazakhstan asks Russia to collaborate in managing the Volga River
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano from Moscow - Kazakhstan is concerned about the rapid decline in the level of the Caspian Sea, whi...
Startup, Mycelium-based Eco-friendly Leather from Argentina with Mycorium Biotech
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Founded in 2022, the Argentinian startup Mycorium Biotech specialises in the production of a susta...
Salmon farming in Iceland: the environmental toll of a growing industry
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Once a symbol of toil and tradition, fishing is undergoing a profound transformation. Today, much ...
Subsidence, Tehran is sinking: the hidden cost of water
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Tehran is sinking, and with it, much of Iran. This is a plain fact, not a metaphor for the country...
Air quality in Europe is still poor
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Air quality in Europe is still poor: despite some improvements in pollution reduction, new measure...
Waste Management Europe 2025 Returns to Bologna to Drive Circular Innovation
The Waste Management Europe Exhibition & Conference (WME) 2025 is set to take place from June 10 to 12 in Bologna, Italy, a city recognized among Europe’s top 100 greenest cities. Now in i...
China’s CO₂ emissions begin to fall: have they finally reached the peak?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano A clear and unmistakable downturn. The once sharply rising line on the graph comes to a sudden hal...
The US closes its climate disaster database and enters hurricane season unprepared
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Would you turn off your thermometer in the middle of a fever? That is what is happening in the Uni...
Climate litigation: what to expect in 2025
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Climate litigation is expanding at a steady pace, with significant developments expected in nation...
Carbon footprint: why ISO standards should be free
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Is a tonne of CO₂ always a tonne of CO₂, no matter the country or industrial sector? It might ...
Huge potential for a global circular economy going unleveraged
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Beginning to write this year’s Circularity Gap Report, we were driven by a simple question: ...
Startup, Meight: Data and AI to Optimise Freight Logistics
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Meight is a startup that originated as a spin-off from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and is based in...
Telecoupling: A story about lithium and asymmetric global transformations
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Aapo got up and looked out the window. The Baltic Sea was calm as always at dawn. Many years had p...
Festival of Circular Economy Returns in 2025 with Bold Ideas for a Waste-Free Future
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From May 20 to 22, 2025, the Festival of Circular Economy returns for a new edition—bringing...
Visions of the future from the Global South: interviews from RM56
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano For issue 56 of Renewable Matter, focused on the Global South, we brought three experts to th...
Brazil, Land of Contradictions, Is Getting Ready for COP30
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In November, COP30, the United Nations climate summit, will take place in Belém, a Brazilia...
Orientalism
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano For decades, the Global South has been warning us about the systemic failure of the preconceived v...
Farewell, Pepe Mujica: an icon of social ecology
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Pepe Mujica, the former president of Uruguay and symbol of modest, socially and environmentally co...
The new Pope, Robert Francis Prevost, Leo XIV, has already spoken about climate and the environment
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The 267th Pope has been elected. At 6.07 pm on Thursday, the 8th of May 2025, the long-awaited whi...