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?—?in

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Even the negatives — the politicization of ESG investing and reporting, the economic downturn, the energy crisis created by the Russian invasion of Ukraine — are temporal phenomena, part of the regular ebbs and flows of economics and policy. Unilever invests in biotech alternatives to palm oil for greener cleaning.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2020

President Obama offered soft loans to exciting clean tech companies and made investment in greener cars a condition of the multi-billion dollar bailouts awarded to US car companies. But ultimately such measures emerged as piecemeal additions to wider stimulus programmes that simultaneously drove high carbon investment.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 15, 2021

San Francisco Bay Area biotech giant Genentech is a world leader in making medicines for diseases such as cancer and cystic fibrosis; it’s even trialing one of its medicines for helping treat COVID-19. Retaining the best talent is crucial to Genentech’s ability to stay ahead with biotech innovation. And Genentech isn’t the only one.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

As such the CBI boss argued that regulation needed to be thought about more "holistically" and called on regulators to "pioneer pro-investment and pro-innovation regulation, alongside competition and consumer price". I can promise you that the only F words I will be using are foreign investment, fair trade, fiscal policy and fiduciary duty.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The use of these chemicals also damages the environment in other ways; much of the fertilizer used in the world today is the product of methane gas, a fossil fuel, while the wide-scale use of pesticides has been linked to the damage of ecosystems and vital populations of pollinators.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Seattle’s fleet is already 80 percent electrified, driven by a mandate to be fossil fuel-free by 2030. He includes upfront capital investment, electricity costs and vehicle replacement cycles into his budget. Here are four takeaways from the conference: 1. .

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AGreenLiving

MAY 3, 2021

But if Zymergen achieves its goal of cutting back petroleum-based chemicals in the bio-based film, that would be a win for cleaner chemistry, according to Mark Rossi, executive director of the nonprofit Clean Production Action , who called the chemical industry’s current reliance on fossil fuels “incredibly toxic.”

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

She became intrigued by her clients’ requests for investments with a triple bottom line — and the very notion that profitability and impact needn’t be mutually exclusive. . Six years later, he is CEO of Clara Foods, a biotech food company that uses fermentation to create egg proteins without involving chickens.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

It’s also investing in professional mentorship for minorities and backing communities through $6.5 It’s throwing $100 million toward biotech solutions for repurposing waste and improving plastics; regenerative agriculture in deforested zones; and building up markets for biological ingredients. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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