Financing the EU's Circular Transition
The transition to a Circular Economy is under way. It is just over 8 years now since the European Commission published its Circular Economy Action Plan. In that time, we have had a second Action Pla...
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Sustainability Report, the ESRS E5 Standard on resource use and circular economy explained
In the past few months, the European Union has made significant advancements towards transparency and comparability of sustainability data. Especially for what concerns the goal of standardising the...
Sustainable finance across Europe, Asia, and the United States: interviews from RM49
In each monographic issue of Renewable Matter, the Think Tank section is an opportunity to hear directly from the most prominent figures in the fields that, from time to time, we cover. Scienti...
Are the ESG Ratings Working?
Raise your hand if you have never heard of ESG ratings. At least since the introduction of environmental, social and governance factors into corporate financial analysis was popularized in 2006 by t...
Startup: Broccoli, the Sharefunding Platform for Sustainable Food Companies
“In the last two years, nothing has been more important on the agenda than our health and our climate impact. Issues that will not be resolved in the next century. However, we can have an impa...
Welcome to Post-Capitalism
Chico Mendes, a Brazilian trade unionist and environmentalist, is often credited with the phrase that “environmentalism without class struggle is just gardening.” In a world where the ri...
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...
Circular Economy: A Concept at a Crossroad
Despite the initial enthusiasm and efforts to transition towards circular models, recent data reveal a concerning decline in the global circularity rate. From 9.1% in 2018, the circularity rate...
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
*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...
Climate Finance and the Paris Agreement, how everything fits together
On Monday, December 4th, during COP28, a thematic day on climate finance took place to assess what is the current situation and, more importantly, which are the long-term prospects of a key mechanis...
If the SDGs are to survive, multilateral development banks must embrace reform
In the lead-up to the 78th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the outlook for the future of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) seemed rather bleak. Global efforts to achieve th...
Worldcoin, groundbreaking currency or privacy risk?
The cryptocurrency Worldcoin, the digital currency created by Sam Altman, one of the founders of artificial intelligence giant ChatGPT, continues to create buzz. This week, the Kenyan governmen...
A carbon tax on luxury consumption? More equity, less CO2
Taxes on “luxury” goods and services could result in more equity and less CO2. According to a study published at the end of June in the academic journal One Earth, a carbon tax on domest...
Even Italians’ savings are boosting the circular transition
The Italian Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP), as other national promotional institutions, is a driver of sustainable growth and the circular transition in a way that is “additional and complementar...
On Her Majesty’s Service
The transition (economic, ecological, cultural, circular?) requires technology, technical know-how, and soft skills of all kinds. New economic expertise, knowledge of governance processes, new langu...
Sustainable finance: investments for the circular economy are moving forward
Circularity Capital, a private equity firm established in 2015 that specializes in investing in circular economy companies, announced a few weeks ago the closing of its largest circular economy inve...
Measuring the impacts of companies on the ocean, for a sustainable Blue Economy
The ocean is the largest carbon sink on the planet, and if managed sustainably it can aid in climate change mitigation and adaptation. But its ability to regulate climate is weakened by the direct a...
Climate change: why activists are putting a premium on insurers
Small talk needs a new conversation starter. As weather events batter people, property and productivity from sea to rising sea, the physical reality of the connection between weather and climate cha...
New Zealand introduces the first law in the world on transparency for sustainable finance
“New Zealand has become the first country to introduce a law that will require banks, insurers and investment managers to report the impacts of climate change on their business.” This was stated...