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? Spinning CO2 into clothes

Climate Tech VC

We’ve spilled plenty of ink in this newsletter on carbon capture, but less on what happens after —particularly carbon-to-value. In the meantime, Rubi aims to capture the CO2 from industrial processes and use it to make apparel inputs carbon-negative. Do they come directly from living organisms?

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. CropLife has echoed COPA-COGECA’s arguments against pesticides reduction plans and the intensification of organic agriculture across Europe.

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Why we need a cleantech 'supermajor' - and fast

Business Green

Pledges to date, it found, even if fully met, will fall well short of what is required to bring energy-related carbon dioxide emissions to net zero by 2050. Non-production or process-based platforms from biotech to software can also deliver solutions at pace and at scale.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

GreenBiz

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. My Green Lab's 15 partners and sponsors include biotech giant Genentech, MilliporeSigma and USA Scientific. Projects and progress. My Green Lab also runs the ACT "eco-nutrition" label for lab equipment.

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How My Green Lab is cleaning up R&D

AGreenLiving

But as sterile as those labs may appear, they have a dirty secret: immense carbon footprints. Projects and progress My Green Lab’s 15 partners and sponsors include biotech giant Genentech, MilliporeSigma and USA Scientific. My Green Lab also runs the ACT “eco-nutrition” label for lab equipment.

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Meet the founder: Arkeon CEO Gregor Tegel on creating food ingredients out of air

AFN Sustainable Protein

Well, it’s not as simple as that, but the Austrian company, founded by Dr. Gregor Tegel, Dr. Günther Bochmann and Dr. Simon Rittmann, claims to be the only company creating 20 proteinogenic amino acids by feeding carbon dioxide to single-celled micro-organisms called archaea – without the need for genetic engineering.