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Issue 59 of Renewable Matter is online
Bridges, dams, airports, water networks, power lines, gas pipelines, civil and military construction: how is the way we design, develop and manage infrastructure changing in the 21st century? From the Belt and Road Initiative to the Italian railway network, from NATO bases to reconstruction in Ukraine, RM59 has travelled the world to explore how global infrastructure is addressing the challenges of sustainability.
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Climate finance at COP30: how to leverage $1.3 trillion by 2035

by Lucrezia Lenardon 21 NOV 2025 17:30

During the climate summit in Brazil, the focus shifted back to climate finance: without adequate resources, making progress on adaptation, mitigation and combating global warming is difficult, parti...

The importance of social determinants: How inequality makes pandemics more deadly

by Michael G. Marmot 14 NOV 2025 15:30

“The paradox is that a risk that makes us all equal reveals, at the same time, how unequal we are,” reads the book Pandemocracy: A Philosophy of the Coronavirus by Spanish philosoph...

United Nations, is UN80 the start of a new era?

by Emanuele Bompan 12 AUG 2025 08:00

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche italiano “The Trump presidency is seriously destabilising the UN system, and many heads of state are fol...

Plastic credits, a false solution that legitimises waste colonialism

by Tosca Ballerini 23 JUL 2025 10:00

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The extended fifth session of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC-5.2) for a Global P...

A Circular Vision for Coffee Is an Opportunity for the Global South

by Antonella Ilaria Totaro 22 JUL 2025 13:00

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano  Brazil, Vietnam, Colombia, Indonesia, Ethiopia, India, and many others. To speak of coffee i...

Telecoupling: A story about lithium and asymmetric global transformations

by Lucas Enrico 20 MAY 2025 13:15

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...

Visions of the future from the Global South: interviews from RM56

by Editorial Staff 15 MAY 2025 11:00

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

by Roberto Giovannini 15 MAY 2025 08:00

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

by Emanuele Bompan 15 MAY 2025 07:00

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

by Emanuele Bompan 14 MAY 2025 16:00

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 Pope who came from the “end of the world” and spoke to the “South of the world”

by Roberto Giovannini 28 APR 2025 08:30

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...

What is inclusive conservation and why is it important for ensuring our survival?

by Micaela Camino 25 APR 2025 12:30

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano We are facing an unprecedented environmental and climate crisis. A significant portion of the rema...