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BSI publishes net zero blueprint for scaling industrial biotechnology sector

Business Green

National standards body partners with government innovation agency InnovateUK and the Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Forum on major new report setting out full potential for bio feedstocks.

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Unilever pledges to invest €1bn in eliminating fossil fuels from cleaning products by 2030

Business Green

Consumer goods giant outlines plans to spend €1bn on ramping up carbon capture and utilisation technologies that will curb its cleaning and laundry product line's reliance on fossil fuel derived chemicals. As an industry, we must break our dependence on fossil fuels, including as a raw material for our products," he said. "We

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Greener cleaning? Unilever and Genomatica team up to develop biotech alternatives to palm oil

Business Green

New £120m venture aims to scale up biotechnology alternative to palm oil and fossil fuels used to make everyday products. Unilever is sinking millions of pounds into a plan to scale up the production of a plant-based ingredient that could curb the use of palm oil and fossil fuels in its extensive household product range.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Bailouts paper over the fossil fuel industry's weaknesses and "will create a zombie industry forever dependent on state aid for survival," according to Jason Quay, director of the Global Climate Strategy Sunrise Project. . Even without those policies — they soon expire — renewables are more than competitive against fossil fuels.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

Bailouts paper over the fossil fuel industry’s weaknesses and “will create a zombie industry forever dependent on state aid for survival,” according to Jason Quay, director of the Global Climate Strategy Sunrise Project. This old playbook will not return us to a pre-COVID-19 “normal.”

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

AGreenLiving

Bailouts paper over the fossil fuel industry’s weaknesses and “will create a zombie industry forever dependent on state aid for survival,” according to Jason Quay, director of the Global Climate Strategy Sunrise Project. This old playbook will not return us to a pre-COVID-19 “normal.”

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Are microbes the future of recycling? It’s complicated.

Grist

billion tons of plastic. Of the waste generated from that plastic, less than a tenth of that has been recycled, researchers estimate. Plastic inhabits the oceans, building up in the guts of seagulls and great white sharks. At the end,” he added, “you have exactly the same quantity of plastic waste.”.