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

GreenBiz

To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. . History has shown us that government funding of visionary projects can have enormous positive outcomes. Back to normal is not an option.

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Using waste carbon feedstocks to produce chemicals

GreenBiz

The new processes, which reflect scientific advancements in industrial biotechnology and electrolysis, range from fermentation (using proprietary microorganisms) to electrocatalysis and are at varying stages of development (research scale to full commercialization).

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The American chestnut tree is coming back. Who is it for?

Grist

government. For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. government took Indigenous children, including at least one of Patterson’s own relatives, and placed them in boarding schools. Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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Ecumenical Greens: the rise in centrist environmental politics

Business Green

This typically manifests itself in the form of left-wing, anti-capitalist economic policies. Sustainable New Zealand knew that the existing Green Party was losing their coalition negotiating advantage to make the case for sound environmental policies.

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Now is the time to invest in early-stage clean tech

Business Green

Regulators and policy makers: we need the right incentives and rules, to create an environment where clean energy solutions can accelerate to market and we need investment into critical national infrastructure. Beverley Gower-Jones is an independent member of the UK government's Net Zero Innovation Board.

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WCS Event: More Women on Corporate Boards | February 20, 2020

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

While in the last few years, there’s been a push by state and national governments to require more gender diversity representation on corporate boards, women are largely underrepresented as corporate board members. Yet we are under represented at the governance level of corporations. As of 2018, women held only 20.8% trillion in sales.

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