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RENEWABLE MATTER
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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Asia

Electric cars, Europe reacts to Chinese subsidies with tariffs

by Simone Fant 20 AUG 2024 16:00

More than nine months have passed since the investigation into China's subsidised electric car batteries, a month since Europe imposed provisional tariffs on Chinese carmakers, and weeks since offic...

China, Third Plenum: Xi promises modernization by 2029, but glosses over domestic crisis

by Giorgia Marino 23 JUL 2024 07:00

“Further deepening the broad effort on reforms and promoting Chinese-style modernization.” All by 2029, the year in which the People's Republic will celebrate its 80th anniversary. This ...

Wang Yao: This is How China Finances Biodiversity

by Giorgia Marino 03 JUN 2024 15:15

China is one of the most biodiverse countries in the world. Its 960 million hectares of land include mountain ranges (such as the Himalayas) and plateaus, vast deserts and immense grasslands, boreal...

Fashion Crimes: 'Zara and H&M use cotton linked to violence and environmental devastation'

by Lorenzo Tecleme 11 APR 2024 07:01

“Back in the days when we used to swim in the river we were afraid of alligators. Now it is difficult to find even a small geko." Marcos Rogério Beltrão dos Santos is a Brazilian...

The shadow of consulting firms (and Tony Blair) on climate negotiations

by Emanuele Bompan 04 APR 2024 15:30

The government of Azerbaijan seeks help for COP29. In recent weeks, proposals to collaborate with the government of Baku in managing the 29th UN climate conference, to be held in November in Azerbai...

China: the year of the Dragon is the year of new productive forces

by Giorgia Marino 12 MAR 2024 09:30

Now that the New Year festivities are over, all attention in China has shifted to the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, where from March 4 to 11 the so-called Two Sessions (Liang Hui), the P...