La Provincia de Córdoba, Argentina
From July 1-3, 2025, the province of Córdoba, Argentina, held its first international climate conference in the run-up to the COP30 Belén conference in Brazil this November. It was called Conferencia Climatica Internacional: Compromiso Latinoamericano. It also doubled up as the fifth circular economy conference, or "Cumbre Mundial de Economía Circular".
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I had the honor of addressing the conference, emphasizing the "ecological power" Argentina has, given it was one of the few countries still running a biocapacity reserve.​
Reconocimiento del Poder Legislativo de la Provincia de Córdoba, Argentina
On July 1, 2025, in the context of this conference, the legislative body of the Province of Córdoba in Argentina recognized me for my work advancing sustainability.
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Put forward by Abraham Galo, a provincial legislator and its environmental lead, and Myrian Prunotto, the Vice-governor and Chair of Córdoba's legislative body, celebrated Mathis as "Scientist and sustainability strategist, highlighting that his dedication, study, and expertise have provided invaluable tools for humanity and its survival". (In Spanish they said: cientifico y strategy de la sostenibilidad, destacando que su dedicación, estudio y experticia ha brindado herramientas invaluabes para la humanized y su superviviencia).
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Here in the picture, I am with the Vice-Governor Myrian Prunotto.
Videos and media reactions
Media impact
Mathis Wackernagel, participating in an opening panel of the conference.
The panel was moderated by Sebastian Navarro from CC35 and Carlos Moreno, who coined the 15-minute city advocating for proximity as a key factor for livable, functional, resilient cities.
Click on the picture to see the live interview on VOZ. The additional in-depth interview by Ary Garbovetzky
is available here. It was called: Mathis Wackernagel: El sobregiro climático es una estafa piramidal al futuro del planeta (Overshoot is a Ponzi scheme on the back of the future of our planet).
Matías Avramow, an environmental scientist and journalist, produced this interview entitled "Argentina is rich, but they do not realize" for Argentina's largest Newspaper La Nación . The full Spanish title was: La Argentina es rica y no lo sabe. El análisis de un referente mundial del ambientalismo sobre el futuro “verde” del planeta.
Econews: Discussing biocapacity reserves and biocapacity deficit of countries in their instagram outreach.