Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In 2016, World Energy Outlook made a study on air pollution as the fourth-largest threat to human health – but also to our environment. With the increasing growth in mass production, industries expanding to low cost production sites in Asia, fuelling on coal and the pollution from transport, the problem continues to grow.

IoT 73

IoT Biotech Pollution Building Energy Monitoring 73

Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. Before turning to genetic engineering, the foundation tried unsuccessfully to breed a hybrid chestnut that looked and grew like an American chestnut but had genes from species native to Asia that gave it blight resistance.

Biotechnology 142

Biotechnology Agriculture Government Technology 142

Grist

APRIL 17, 2021

This spring, the biotechnology company Oxitec plans to release genetically modified, or GM, mosquitoes in the Florida Keys. While there have been more than 7,300 dengue cases reported in the United States between 2010 and 2020, a majority are contracted in Asia and the Caribbean, according to the U.S.

Biotechnology 95

Biotechnology Technology Health Biotech 95

AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 12, 2019

Demand for meat is growing faster in Asia, especially China, than anywhere else on the planet — and satiating the continent’s demand has global implications,” the Impossible Foods spokesperson told us. Ida collects data from dairy cows that can detect health issues such as mastitis or lameness at least 24 hours before they are critical.

Demand 52

Demand Asia Health Biotechnology 52

Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Just ask Luis Lombana, CEO of Ficosterra , a Spanish marine biotechnology company that makes fertilisers from an unexpected source: seaweed. When it comes to ocean health, the work of convincing farmers to ditch their synthetic fertilizers can't happen fast enough. Asia dominates the market with 97.4 million metric tons from 2.2

Pollution 45

Pollution Agriculture Startups Biodiversity 45

GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Health, wellness and nutrition are Camp’s key interests. . He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. He asked me to help him find a solution to get rid of the milk waste," Luo remembers. .

Sustainability 109

Sustainability Carbon-neutral Waste Waste 109