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Bold Actions to Accelerate the Bioeconomy – results from the Delhi Meet-up of the Bold Goals Action Group

Bold Actions to Accelerate the Bioeconomy – results from the Delhi Meet-up of the Bold Goals Action Group

December 25, 2023 |

In India,  a coalition of the willing called the Bold Goals Action Group refined and amended a series of 47 Bold Actions that must be taken by industry and government in order to achieve the global timelines for Net Zero economies that address climate change and the need for resilient national economies. The group was […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to IndieBio

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to IndieBio

December 25, 2023 |

With well above 100 companies funded, IndieBio is enabling scientists to build transformative companies in human and planetary health and rejecting conventional thought that funding biotech must be expensive. Alex Kopelyan, Partner and Program Director at IndieBio shared this illuminating presentation at ABLC NEXT in San Francisco that talks about their portfolio, lab space, engineering […]

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Molecules for Christmas: A visit with Australia’s mysterious bio-expert, Dr. Westlake, for holiday treats and strategies

Molecules for Christmas: A visit with Australia’s mysterious bio-expert, Dr. Westlake, for holiday treats and strategies

December 24, 2023 |

My old mate, the mysteriously well-informed Dr. Brian Westlake, called me from the mangy old desk he keeps on the verandah at his home and laboratory, Wambangalong, a large station along the Bindiwarra River in the west central of Queensland, by Ininagai country. On this occasion the semi-annual flooding of the local billabong had cut […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Verbio

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Verbio

December 21, 2023 |

Verbio has developed technology to 60 kta of biobased renewable carbon products to specialty chemicals industry, The VerBioChem venture starts in 2025, with main products 9-DAME and 1-DECENE, based on European RME with low CO2 footprint, and Mo/W and Ru based metathesis catalysts production at scale. Andreas Kohl, Head of Specialty Chemicals and Catalysts for […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Terviva

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to Terviva

December 20, 2023 |

Terviva is a food and ag innovation company partnering with farmers to grow pongamia, a climate-resilient tree which produces abundant, protein- and oil-rich legumes. Pongamia is uniquely suited to meet today’s environmental challenges. Chief Business Officer Ashley Kleckner presented these slides on the company’s promise and progress at ABL:C Next 22023.

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to CleanJoule

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to CleanJoule

December 19, 2023 |

CleanJoule has a proprietary process for manufacturing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable bio-polymer. The basic building block of these carbon negative products are biologically derived intermediates, which are manufactured by an innovative process. This has the potential to reduce or eliminate CO2 emissions in aviation and introduce carbon negative consumer apparels. CEO Mukund Karanjikar […]

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FOA La La La La: DOE decks your halls with new Regional Resource Hubs for Purpose Grown Energy Crops program

FOA La La La La: DOE decks your halls with new Regional Resource Hubs for Purpose Grown Energy Crops program

December 19, 2023 |

In Washington, the  US Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office announced its notice of intent (NOI) to issue a funding opportunity announcement that will drive the research and development of low-carbon, purpose-grown energy crops leading to the deployment of clean energy technologies. The planned Regional Resource Hubs for Purpose-Grown Energy Crops funding opportunity will support […]

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The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA Energy & Climate Action

The Digest’s 2023 Multi-Slide Guide to USDA Energy & Climate Action

December 18, 2023 |

The Inflation Reduction Act provides nearly $40 billion for USDA over the next 10 years to improve life and livelihoods in rural communities. Specific investments include: $19.3 billion for climate-smart agriculture on farms, ranches, and forests; $13.4 billion to lower costs for families and support goodpaying clean energy jobs in rural communities; and $5 billion […]

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India on the Move:  the subcontinent is buzzing with mobility, and poised to assume leadership of the global bioeconomy

India on the Move: the subcontinent is buzzing with mobility, and poised to assume leadership of the global bioeconomy

December 18, 2023 |

Part 1 of a Digest series on India’s projects, progress and emerging bioeconomy leadership. By car, motorcycle, auto-rickshaw, truck, tractor, bus, train, camel, elephant, or on foot, India is on the move. From the effervescent hornblowing of the traffic that pours through its cities and interconnecting highways like a hot magma, to the trumpets of […]

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GREET is in for SAF: Santa comes early for the bioeconomy

GREET is in for SAF: Santa comes early for the bioeconomy

December 15, 2023 |

In Washington, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and Internal Revenue Service released guidance on the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Credit established by the Inflation Reduction Act, and said that pending further guidance from the Treasury Department, an updated GREET model will provide another methodology for SAF producers to determine the lifecycle GHG emissions rates of their […]

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