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...
A decade of hydropower in the Balkans
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano There are currently 3,188 planned hydropower projects across the Balkans, with around a hundred un...
Startup, It’s electric: Recharging EVs with Excess Energy from Buildings
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Founded in 2022 by Tiya Gordon and Nathan King, it's electric is a startup that aims to make elect...
Wastewater Directive: the race for circular biorefineries is on
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The revision of the EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive (2024/3019) sets increasingly ambitiou...
Circularity25, what happened at the American circular economy event
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Denver - The fifth edition of Circularity, the American event organised by the Trellis group ...
Trump's deep sea mining order could destabilize international cooperation
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano As Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority (ISA), I take note of the Executive Ord...
The Rising Risk in Carbon Markets: Who’s Really Carrying It?
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano In today’s evolving carbon market, one player is shouldering more and more risk: the project...
Water as weapon: India's threat to the Indus Treaty signals a dangerous global turn
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano It took years of painstaking diplomacy, technical negotiation, and political compromise to broker ...
A Map of the Material World: Interview with Ed Conway
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The digital revolution, the dematerialisation of work, the web, and social networks may give us th...
The Pope who came from the “end of the world” and spoke to the “South of the world”
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Jorge Mario Bergoglio came from Argentina, the so-called “end of the world”, as he him...
The environmental world remembers Bergoglio: he will continue to “inspire new generations”
This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano “An unwavering global champion”: this is how climate and environmental activists aroun...