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Climate and Trump: uncertainty looms over global food prices

Climate and Trump: uncertainty looms over global food prices

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano After a 2.1% decline in global agricultural commodity prices in 2024, the outlook for the year ahe...

China 2025: What to watch out for?

China 2025: What to watch out for?

While the year marking the transition to the second quarter of the century carries symbolic weight for many, for China, 2025 stands as a critical moment of assessment and trial by fire. The tariff w...

Challenges and opportunities for the future of European fisheries

Challenges and opportunities for the future of European fisheries

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The climate crisis, biodiversity loss, and pollution are just some of the factors affecting the fi...

Climate finance: major US banks exit the Net Zero Banking Alliance

Climate finance: major US banks exit the Net Zero Banking Alliance

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano Within just one month, from December to early January, six of America’s largest banks decide...

COP29, a half success for the climate finance negotiation

COP29, a half success for the climate finance negotiation

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - The target is 1.3 trillion dollars a year by 2035 to help developing countries mitigat...

Italian Climate Fund: how Italy is really contributing

Italian Climate Fund: how Italy is really contributing

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano From Baku - Negotiations on the New Collective Quantified Goal (NCQG) − the post-2025 f...

An inconvenient Mediterranean truth: Rising tides and sinking futures

An inconvenient Mediterranean truth: Rising tides and sinking futures

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano The word “Mediterranean” evokes images of idyllic sun-soaked beaches and waters of var...

COP29 presidency pushes climate funding and energy storage goals

COP29 presidency pushes climate funding and energy storage goals

Less than two months before the highly anticipated COP29 United Nations Climate Summit in Baku, on Tuesday, 17 September, the Azerbaijani presidency laid out its plan to enhance ambition and enable ...

Early Warning Systems: Tackling New Glacial Dangers through Prevention

Early Warning Systems: Tackling New Glacial Dangers through Prevention

In the unpredictable mountains, there is no such thing as zero risk. We have always known this. But now, because of global warming, the dangers have grown more severe. This can be understood by look...

Drought in Sicily: what’s happening?

Drought in Sicily: what’s happening?

Livestocks drink mud, lakes dry up, grain and forage harvests are down to zero. These are the shocking images coming recently from Sicily, in the midst of a drought emergency. These hardships a...

Why Beryl is the earliest Atlantic hurricane ever (and will not stay an isolated case)

Why Beryl is the earliest Atlantic hurricane ever (and will not stay an isolated case)

Increasingly earlier, more intense and devastating, atlantic hurricanes, fuelled by steadily rising ocean temperatures, are becoming ever more dangerous and unpredictable. So much so that some ...

A report of the Bonn interim negotiations

A report of the Bonn interim negotiations

In the evening of Thursday, June 13, the preparatory work of SB60 came to a close and, in the general discontent hovering at the World Convention Center in Bonn immediately following the close of th...

ITLOS: States have a legal obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

ITLOS: States have a legal obligation to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

This article is also available in Italian / Questo articolo è disponibile anche in italiano On the 21st of May 2024, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued an advis...

Air quality networks can also monitor biodiversity around the world

Air quality networks can also monitor biodiversity around the world

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...

The Strasbourg Court has reshaped the horizon of climate litigation in Europe

The Strasbourg Court has reshaped the horizon of climate litigation in Europe

On the 9th of April, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered a decision that scholars already consider a milestone for climate litigation. There are more than 2,500 lawsuits worldwide t...

Rising emissions, over 80% produced by only 57 companies from 2015

Rising emissions, over 80% produced by only 57 companies from 2015

From the Paris Agreement to the present, climate-changing emissions have continued to increase rather than decrease. Even those related to coal — the most polluting of fossil fuels, which is w...

Rethinking Tourism Carbon Credits with the Help of AI

Rethinking Tourism Carbon Credits with the Help of AI

The carbon market sector is still, to this day, not sufficiently transparent. To offset one's carbon emissions, which are still roughly calculated, people buy credits whose real environmental impact...

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

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

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

Ten words for 2024

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 ...

Here is how countries will have to allocate climate resources after COP28

Here is how countries will have to allocate climate resources after COP28

*from Dubai   The equation is simple: if you want to decarbonise the economy, it will not be enough to have a final text here at COP28 calling for the phase-out of all fossil fuels, with emis...