Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 31, 2022
A new fund has been launched by the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) to enable biotech companies to access specialist facilities, equipment and resources. IBioIC’s Facilities Access Fund will allow businesses to apply for grants of up to £10,000 to support critical research and development projects.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Seemingly a leap forward in sportswear firm On ’s efforts to move away from petroleum-based resources, a new shoe range – marketed as “Cloudprime” – seems the first foray by a footwear company into using carbon emissions as the primary raw material for the midsole.
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Business Green
JUNE 15, 2022
New £120m venture aims to scale up biotechnology alternative to palm oil and fossil fuels used to make everyday products. The partnership aims to help Genomatica scale a "technology-driven, plant-based ingredient", which is estimated to have half the carbon footprint of palm-derived ingredients, according to the update.
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 8, 2022
A UK-based demonstration plant that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online in May 2022. Building manufacturing capabilities in Europe will reduce the carbon footprint of shipping materials from cheaper producers, such as Asia,” adds Nick.
Business Green
MARCH 7, 2023
If these legislative challenges can be overcome the BSI said there could be huge environmental and financial benefits from creating a food industry which is not so reliant on land and natural resources, is more efficient, and has a vastly reduced carbon footprint.
Better Ventures
JANUARY 15, 2020
One investment theme we’re increasingly excited about is synthetic biology, due to its potential to replace carbon emitting production methods for a number of products reliant on fossil fuels, from food and materials to therapeutics and petrochemicals. We’ve made two recent investments in this space? invested in 2018 according to SynBioBeta.
Grist
OCTOBER 7, 2019
For the last few years, writers and scientists have marveled at the potential for gene editing to allow farmers to grow more food on less land and allow more of the earth to grow carbon-sucking forests and savannas. That hopeful vision of a gene-edited future — verdant with pesticide-free, carbon-sequestering crops — flickered.
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