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RENEWABLE MATTER
Issue 56 of Renewable Matter is online
Energy transition, circular economy, indigenous knowledge and biodiversity protection, the fight against extractivism, and the management of climate emergencies. In the journey towards a sustainable future, the countries of the Global South, those most affected by the overlapping environmental and economic crises, could forge a third path, between Europe’s capitalist Green Deal and the denialist, destructive approach of the United States.
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Biodiversity

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...

Air quality networks can also monitor biodiversity around the world

by Elena Colombo 02 MAY 2024 12:30

Sixth mass extinction and climate crisis, unfortunately, go hand in hand, but they are not the same thing. When we speak of mass extinction, we are referring to the massive loss of biodiversity on a...

Panamericana and biodiversity, empathy can save the world

by Valeria Barbi 19 APR 2024 14:30

It has been almost 2 years since the 15th of July 2022 when I took the plane that allowed me to verify with my own eyes, how much and in which form human activities are changing, sometimes irreparab...

World Wetlands Day, the forgotten link to human well-being

by Giorgio Kaldor 02 FEB 2024 15:00

The 2nd of February marks World Wetlands Day, in other words, lagoons, bogs, ponds, and lakes. Cradles of often endangered biodiversity covering only 6% of the Earth's surface, and yet these ecosyst...

Acque Bresciane: 1,500 Trees to Protect Peatland Biodiversity

by Giorgia Marino 01 FEB 2024 11:00

On the 7th of October, an unusual scene played out on a marshland reserve in Northern Italy, on the banks of Lake Iseo in the foothills of the Alps. A team from Acque Bresciane – the util...

Climate, biodiversity, and sustainable development: the key international meetings during 2024

by Emanuele Bompan 29 JAN 2024 13:00

2024 will be a key year for green finance, for the green transition, for advancing the UN Montreal-Kunming Agreement on Biodiversity, for strengthening multilateralism on sustainable development beg...

Ten words for 2024

by Emanuele Bompan 01 JAN 2024 07:00

Another year has come to an end. There are those who reflect on these past twelve months while others prefer to look to the year ahead. We of Renewable Matter, who by nature are always looking ...

Restoration Law: there is an agreement, but it is still far from what science requires

by Antonella Ilaria Totaro 15 NOV 2023 11:00

Late in the evening of Thursday, November 9, 2023, negotiators from the Parliament, Commission and Council reached a tentative political agreement on the European law on nature restoration. After a ...

Man and Forests: It's All a Matter of Timescale

by Giorgia Marino 14 NOV 2023 08:44

Time, complexity, resilience. These are the three key concepts on which the health and survival of any forest ecosystem is based. Three interrelated characteristics in a tight cause-and-effect chain...

If a Tree Falls

by Emanuele Bompan 14 NOV 2023 08:20

Over the course of my life, I have encountered exceptional trees: the giant sequoias and the secular General Sherman (2200 - 2700 years old) in California, the Lebanese cedars in the Beqaa valley, t...

Ecuador, a referendum for the future

by Emanuele Bompan 25 AUG 2023 07:15

Leaving oil in the ground by popular demand. This is what Ecuadorians approved yesterday in a historic referendum to stop the development of all new oil wells in Yasuní National Park in the A...

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