Unilever invests in biotech alternatives to palm oil for greener cleaning
GreenBiz
JUNE 24, 2022
New $120m venture aims to scale up biotechnology alternative to palm oil and fossil fuels used to make everyday products.
BSI publishes net zero blueprint for scaling industrial biotechnology sector
Business Green
MARCH 30, 2021
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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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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Start-up providing sustainable Omega-3 secures £2.3m funding
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 17, 2022
Edinburgh-based biotechnology start-up MiAlgae has secured further investment of £2.3m Championing the circular economy, the company has developed a novel biotechnology platform which uses low-value coproducts from the food and drink industry as a feedstock to initially grow microalgae rich in Omega-3 oils.
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New funding to support growth of Scotland’s bioeconomy
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 26, 2022
New funding available from the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) aims to help grow Scotland’s bioeconomy. Initiatives that have secured funding previously include a wide range of industrial biotechnology applications – from low-carbon construction materials made from bacteria to lithium-ion batteries derived from seaweed.
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Falkirk Distillery deal will see whiskey by-products used for animal feed
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 6, 2023
A family-owned whisky distillery in the central belt of Scotland, Falkirk Distillery, has joined forces with biotechnology company MiAlgae in a bid to advance the use of circular economy principles in the whisky industry.
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Unilever pledges to invest €1bn in eliminating fossil fuels from cleaning products by 2030
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Unilever has announced it is to invest €1bn in measures that could allow it to eliminate fossil fuels from its cleaning and laundry products by the end of the decade, an intervention it claims is critical if it is to deliver on its goal of reaching net zero emissions from its products by 2039.
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Carbon Recycling: Microbes, Jet Fuel and Leggings
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Shayle has been brewing up an investment thesis around how decarbonization will create stratification in traditional commodity sectors, like chemicals and materials. If you can produce the same thing in the same cost range -- but you can do so in a CO2-free or carbon-negative -- you'll reap the rewards.
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Carbon Recycling: Microbes, Jet Fuel and Leggings
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 8, 2021
Shayle has been brewing up an investment thesis around how decarbonization will create stratification in traditional commodity sectors, like chemicals and materials. If you can produce the same thing in the same cost range -- but you can do so in a CO2-free or carbon-negative -- you'll reap the rewards.
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Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
billion over the next 10 years into initiatives that will allow it to replace chemicals in its cleaning products made from fossil fuel feedstocks with greener alternatives — an investment it described as critical to meeting its aim of achieving net-zero emissions from its products by 2039. Unilever has committed to spend a part of its $1.2
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5 circular economy startups we've got our eyes on
GreenBiz
JUNE 3, 2021
Climate tech startups, and investments into them, are growing. In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Accelerate is a fast pitch competition featuring startups across the circular economy value chain. Who are they?
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Innovate UK preps £16m of low emission food funding
Business Green
DECEMBER 12, 2022
Agency teams up with Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to launch new funding competition. This joint BBSRC and Innovate UK investment will support incredibly important capacity building, research, innovation and business-led commercialisation to help develop alternative, more sustainable protein sources," he said.
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Greener cleaning? Unilever and Genomatica team up to develop biotech alternatives to palm oil
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. Unilever did not disclose the amount it had invested in the partnership, but confirmed it was the largest investment it had made to date in biotechnology alternatives to palm oil.
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Biomass-fermentation-based protein recognised for potential contribution to a net zero food system
Envirotec Magazine
APRIL 24, 2023
The company operates within the accelerating segment of fermentation-enabled alternative protein that attracted $3.69Bn investment in the last decade, with a 37% increase in Europe in 2022. The MicroHarvest team have made significant progress in overcoming the challenges associated with scaling biotechnological processes.
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Now is the time to invest in early-stage clean tech
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
Investment opportunities in clean energy are enormous, writes Clean Growth Fund's Beverley Gower-Jones. This is the next 'industrial revolution' and it's the first one that is up against a ticking clock, so there are advantages and rewards for investors who act swiftly and decisively to invest in technology solutions.
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Re-introduction of sugar beet to Scotland takes significant step forward
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 14, 2021
Our funding will help unlock a vital next step for this project to support sustainable fuel and chemicals production through biotechnology, and ultimately create new jobs and investment to strengthen communities across Scotland.
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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan
GreenBiz
JUNE 23, 2020
We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. We already have demonstrated the efficacy of investments directed to electrical distribution, water, transportation and renewable energy.
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Will alternative proteins disrupt textiles?
AGreenLiving
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
The same biotechnological improvements that are contributing to the rapid growth in alternative food proteins are also opening new possibilities for textiles and materials. Read more: Will alternative proteins disrupt textiles?
Elemental Excelerator to Fund 15 Climate Companies in 12th Cohort
Elemental Excelerator
OCTOBER 17, 2023
Elemental Excelerator, a leading nonprofit investor in climate technology for deep community impact, introduced its latest cohort, bringing its total amount of investments to $79M. These 15 climate companies will join an existing portfolio of more than 150 investments. invested in Cohort 12, $7.2M Of the $12.5M
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Economics Extern
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
AUGUST 20, 2020
We are looking for someone who is both passionate about sustainability and biotechnology and looking to accelerate their professional development. Kind, Optimistic, and Fun: you enjoy collaborating on challenging problems and investing in the success of those around you. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Economics Extern
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
AUGUST 20, 2020
We are looking for someone who is both passionate about sustainability and biotechnology and looking to accelerate their professional development. Kind, Optimistic, and Fun: you enjoy collaborating on challenging problems and investing in the success of those around you. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
LanzaTech inks $500m partnership with Mark Carney's Brookfield
Business Green
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Carbon capture technology specialist LanzaTech has scooped up $500m backing from Mark Carney-affiliated investment giant Brookfield as part of a strategic partnership aimed at co-developing commercial plants that recycle CO2 into new commodities and products.
Farmers fear climate crisis will have greater impact on their business than coronavirus
Business Green
JULY 1, 2020
A survey of 600 farmers carried out by the pollster on behalf of Swiss biotechnology giant Syngenta in February found 72 per cent were worried about the impact of climate change on their crop yields, animal health, and ability to do business. warming trajectory.
Technology Trending: New smart electricity and hydrogen meters and US DOE emerging tech office
Smart Energy International
DECEMBER 18, 2023
US Department of Energy launches emerging techs office The US DOE has launched a new office to focussing on ‘critical and emerging technologies’, such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology, quantum computing and semiconductors.
Finland pilot plant demonstrates production of bioplastic from soy residues
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 25, 2021
“This project is both an excellent example of what expertise in industrial biotechnology can achieve and a triumph in converting a challenging industrial residue into a higher value product using microbes. The pilot plant project is FF-Future’s first major investment.
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2022 Decarbon8 AgTech funding round open now
E8 Cleantech Angels
JUNE 15, 2022
Winners will receive investment from the Decarbon8 Fund and will have the chance to attract personal co-investment from the E8 Member community, consisting of more than 130 families and funds in North America and beyond. Ag and ecosystem biotechnology (e.g. Business and farm data management tools (e.g.
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'Carbon rainbow': How Unilever's pledge to eliminate fossil fuels from cleaning products could catalyse the bioeconomy
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
Unilever today revealed plans to funnel €1bn over the next 10 years into initiatives that will allow it to replace chemicals in its cleaning products made from fossil fuel feedstocks with greener alternatives, an investment it described critical to meeting its aim of achieving net zero emissions from its products by 2039.
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Fruit-picking robots and carbon-saving animal feeds: Government confirms £24m agri-tech funding boost
Business Green
JULY 19, 2020
Led by Nottingham company Deep Branch Biotechnology, the project will use its unique technology to turn carbon dioxide captured at Drax's Selby power station into animal food that can be produced with minimal water usage and without the need for arable farmland.
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Event - SRI 30
Green Market Oracle
OCTOBER 20, 2019
If you are interested in socially responsible investing you need to attend SRI. Reasons to attend SRI is one of the fastest growing investment movements with 25 percent of U.S. Three quarters (75%) of investors interested in SRI investing. The Advisor Summit Workshop will take place on November 11-15, 2019.
Net Zero: Public taking steps to cut emissions, but fear leadership lacking
Business Green
FEBRUARY 19, 2020
Concern over climate change far outstripped other issues, with just 12 per cent selecting nuclear war as the "biggest risk to Earth's future", and only five and seven per cent highlighting the misuse of artificial intelligence and biotechnology, respectively.
? 2023’s Most Headliney-Headlines #178
Climate Tech VC
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Climate tech venture capital dropped 40% in H1’23 but climate-focused funds have still been steadily stacking the green, with at least $33B of investable dry powder ready to deploy in climate tech startups. Sandbrook Capital, a Stamford Connecticut based private investment firm, raised $1.5B Nuclear makes a resurgence.
How regulations can tear down the barriers faced by the cultivated meat industry
Business Green
MARCH 7, 2023
The industry is attracting investment as new technologies for cultivating meat are emerging and start ups edge towards commercialisation. According to the Good Food Institute, in 2021 cultivated meat companies attracted $140m of investment in Europe.
Rebranded Ginkgo-spinout & ingredients innovator Motif FoodWorks raises $27.5m, hones in on animal-free
AFN Sustainable Protein
AUGUST 15, 2019
Collins, who has over 30 years of experience in food and biotechnology regulation, likely has her work cut out for her as the USDA and FDA recently agreed to jointly regulate cell-based meat products, which could mean that they will take a unified approach to regulating other forms of animal-derived ingredients.
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Why We’re Excited about Synthetic Biology
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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Carbon ‘rainbow’: Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products
AGreenLiving
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
billion over the next 10 years into initiatives that will allow it to replace chemicals in its cleaning products made from fossil fuel feedstocks with greener alternatives — an investment it described as critical to meeting its aim of achieving net-zero emissions from its products by 2039. Carbon ‘rainbow’: Unilever pledges $1.2B
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Top brands strengthen links between net zero goals and supply chain innovation
Business Green
MAY 14, 2021
The company set aside $1.2bn in research and development funds for biotechnology and low-carbon chemistry technologies that support that goal. IKEA, for example, is increasingly investing in direct ownership of resources vital to its future, notably forestland, which it can manage to certain sustainable forest practices.
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WCS Event: More Women on Corporate Boards | February 20, 2020
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JANUARY 28, 2020
Her work has extended from partnering with global brands like IKEA and Tesla to investing software in 1000s of cleantech startups worldwide. She developed over $30M of wind farms and sold the company in 1985, generating a 25X return on invested capital. Floyd is founder of Nth Power, the pioneering cleantech venture capital firm.
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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan
AGreenLiving
JUNE 23, 2020
We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. We already have demonstrated the efficacy of investments directed to electrical distribution, water, transportation and renewable energy.
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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan
AGreenLiving
JUNE 23, 2020
We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment. We already have demonstrated the efficacy of investments directed to electrical distribution, water, transportation and renewable energy.
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BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2022: And the winner is.
Business Green
JUNE 22, 2022
In a wide-ranging and competitive category, the judges chose to recognize Gresham House for its far-reaching sustainability policies and hugely impactful investments in low carbon infrastructure, ambitious tree-planting programmes, and new energy technologies. ESG Investor of the Year. Gresham House. Highly Commended: Green Angel Syndicate.
Behind from the start: The UK is failing to invest in alt-proteins while the world marches on
Business Green
JANUARY 28, 2022
Investing in the alternative, plant-based protein sector would align with the government's net zero and healthy eating priorities, writes Costanza Poggi from Seahorse Environmental. By comparison UK investment amounts to £3m-4m. This January more brands than ever are embracing veganuary and launching new plant based products.
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Should we genetically edit the food we eat? Two experts offer their thoughts
Business Green
AUGUST 16, 2021
We also work to improve plant biotechnologies and have contributed to proof-of-concept studies demonstrating that genome editing can be used to develop useful traits in barley, brassica and potatoes by deleting just a few letters of DNA. So of course they protect these innovations through patents and intellectual property rights.
Water Intelligence Company KETOS Raises $9M Series A
Better Ventures
FEBRUARY 12, 2019
We invested in the Company’s seed round over a year ago and participated in the Series A along with existing investor Rethink Impact. We’ll be featuring 10 startups leveraging software, data science, and biotechnology to build a more sustainable food system. Thank you!
? Green linings & lessons from breakthroughs #159
Climate Tech VC
JULY 24, 2023
Deals of the Week (7/17-7/23) Venture Fundings 🌱 o9 Solutions , a Dallas, TX-based supply chain planning SaaS platform, raised $192M from General Atlantic BeyondNetZero, KKR, and Generation Investment Management.
Eco Friendly Retail Packaging Complete Guide (Sustainable Packaging Innovations)
Green Business Bureau
DECEMBER 28, 2022
These numbers are expected to grow further as investments of ~$5 billion are being pumped into the industry. As a result, biotechnology companies like Danimer Scientific are collaborating with brands to create compostable and biodegradable plastics that ease the disposal burden on the average consumer.
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