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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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Biogas conference to take a “Deep Dive into Scotland’s Net Zero Ambition”

Envirotec Magazine

It will also discuss how to finance the scaling up of AD and biogas technology in the country. ADBA represents a sector which adds so much value to the global efforts to meet net zero targets”, said Maurice Golden MSP ahead of the event. “So View the full programme

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Using waste carbon feedstocks to produce chemicals

GreenBiz

Emerging carbon capture utilization (CCU) technologies potentially allow chemical companies and other manufacturers such as steel companies to convert waste carbon from industrial emissions — in the form of carbon monoxide (CO) and/or carbon dioxide (CO2) — into sustainable, value-added biofuels and chemicals. Factors driving adoption.

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

GreenBiz

The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. Government policies that stimulated the growth of solar accounted for 60 percent of that price decline. Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30.

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Elemental Excelerator to Fund 15 Climate Companies in 12th Cohort

Elemental Excelerator

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. Click here to learn more. • • • About Elemental Excelerator Elemental is a nonprofit investor in climate technologies with deep community impact.

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

Grist

For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. That’s long for research scientists, or a plant technology innovator. It’s also about a category of technology that could find its way into the world,” he said. (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. You don't have to be a socialist to care about the environment.