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China and the USA, the (Im)possible Balance: Interview with Kaiser Kuo

China and the USA, the (Im)possible Balance: Interview with Kaiser Kuo

Attraction and repulsion, rivalry and complementarity, fascination and misunderstandings. The relationship between China and the United States is now, more than ever, at the very heart of internatio...

Space Perspectives: the interviews of RM64

Space Perspectives: the interviews of RM64

For issue 64 of Renewable Matter, we invited three leading figures in space research to join us at the Think Tank round table: an astronaut, an astrobiologist and an astrophysicist. We explored econ...

Anne-Manuèle Hébert: “STEP brings together the decarbonisation and circularity value chains”

Anne-Manuèle Hébert: “STEP brings together the decarbonisation and circularity value chains”

STEP by Pollutec is a new two-day event launching at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on 1–2 December 2026, developed by RX France as a focused platform complementing Pollutec, its flagship envi...

Murat Kurum: “COP31 will deliver results: it’s not about what you want, it’s about what you do”

Murat Kurum: “COP31 will deliver results: it’s not about what you want, it’s about what you do”

Trabzon - “The seas have no passports.” On the Black Sea coast in Trabzon, Murat Kurum, Turkey’s Minister of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change and COP31 President-Design...

Getting To the Moon is Not Enough: We Have To Stay There

Getting To the Moon is Not Enough: We Have To Stay There

Giuseppe Sala teaches at the Department of Aerospace Science and Technology at the Politecnico di Milano and chairs the Technical-Scientific Committee of BEX – Beyond Exploration, the spa...

Riccardo Fraccaro: the new forest economy with carbon credits

Riccardo Fraccaro: the new forest economy with carbon credits

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Italy has 11.8 million hectares of forest, equivalent to 39% of the country’s territory...

Fluidtech Expo, the technology that moves water: interview with Mauro Delle Fratte

Fluidtech Expo, the technology that moves water: interview with Mauro Delle Fratte

Along the journey of water − and many other fluids − are pumps, valves, pipes, sensors and control systems. All are crucial technologies for energy efficiency, industrial sustainability ...

From Meat to Biomass: The Circular Future of Animal Husbandry

From Meat to Biomass: The Circular Future of Animal Husbandry

In the meat industry, as in other sectors, supply chain integration is a fundamental prerequisite for developing circular economy models. This is the path followed by Inalca, a subsidiary of Gruppo ...

Nippon Gases: The Circular Transition of Refrigerants

Nippon Gases: The Circular Transition of Refrigerants

Refrigerant gases are the invisible protagonists of our daily lives. From household refrigerators to supermarket aisles, from office air conditioners to pharmaceutical cold storage: wherever tempera...

Stadler, the “connected intelligence” of waste

Stadler, the “connected intelligence” of waste

For most of its history, the recycling industry has been a business of steel and motion: conveyor belts, ballistic separators, screens, magnets. STADLER is a German family firm now in its eighth gen...

A world in a glass: the interviews of RM63

A world in a glass: the interviews of RM63

For issue 63 of Renewable Matter, we invited three experts to the Think Tank roundtable discussion who could offer us a broad picture of the beverage sector, ranging from wine production t...

Critical raw materials, Luca Meini: “It’s urgent to move from strategy to execution”

Critical raw materials, Luca Meini: “It’s urgent to move from strategy to execution”

In just a few years, critical raw materials (CRMs) have become the true bottleneck for Europe’s green and digital transition. Lithium, cobalt, rare earths, gallium, germanium – without t...

Neya, Mundys’ model for a high-integrity carbon credits market

Neya, Mundys’ model for a high-integrity carbon credits market

This article is part of the thematic channel The Carbon Observer: subscribe to the newsletter Mundys, a leading Italian holding company managing airports and motorways primarily in E...

Let’s Hear Them Out! Interview with Eva Meijer

Let’s Hear Them Out! Interview with Eva Meijer

According to Aristotle, human beings are the only political species. Aristotle, however, lived 23 centuries ago. And despite the influence of his thinking on Western culture, the moral, rational and...

Fabrizio Penna: “The PNRR transformed the Ministry and our relationship with Brussels”

Fabrizio Penna: “The PNRR transformed the Ministry and our relationship with Brussels”

MASE is the beneficiary of a substantial portion of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan: €33.7 billion spread across 49 measures, with 119 milestones and targets to be achieved. The ninth...

Serena Giacomin: “It’s not a strange summer: it’s climate change”

Serena Giacomin: “It’s not a strange summer: it’s climate change”

What can we expect in the coming weeks of this scorching summer? What are these Omega-shaped heat domes? Is the super El Niño on its way? To what extent is the climate crisis really to b...

Walter Stahel: “The owner has become the manufacturer’s slave”

Walter Stahel: “The owner has become the manufacturer’s slave”

Walter Stahel is one of the founding thinkers of the circular economy. A Swiss architect and industrial analyst born in 1946, he first outlined the concept of selling performance rather than product...

L’Oréal Italia and sustainable beauty: “Large corporations must set the course”

L’Oréal Italia and sustainable beauty: “Large corporations must set the course”

L’Oréal for the Future is the programme for a sustainable and inclusive future launched in 2020 by L’Oréal, a world leader in the cosmetics industry, operating&...

Euro-Mediterranean Water Forum: Italy’s challenge to blue diplomacy

Euro-Mediterranean Water Forum: Italy’s challenge to blue diplomacy

From 29 September to 2 October 2026, Rome will host the first Euro-Mediterranean Water Forum. Organised by the One Water Committee with the support of CIHEAM in Bari, in collaboration with the Union...

The future of grid intelligence

The future of grid intelligence

Helsinki – European utilities are facing a historic turning point: increasingly complex grids, extreme weather events and customers demanding reliable and sustainable electricity are exerting ...