Category: Top Stories
The Digest’s Exclusive Q&A with Clariant/ Enviral: Decarbonization, EU transport, Slovakia project, biofuels developments and more
Climate change is one of the global challenges of this century. The Paris Agreement sets greenhouse gas reduction (GHG) targets also for the transport sector, which contributes significantly to GHG emissions, that requires a reduction of 85-90% between 1990-2050. The European Commission presented its 2030 Climate Target Plan in mid-September, raising the EU’s ambition to […]
5 Key Tech Takeaways: Highlights from Tech presented at ABLC 2020
By Iacovos Vasalos, Research Director Emeritus, Center for Research and Technology-Hellas Special to The Digest This report summarizes highlights from the ABLC 2020 Biofuels Digest Virtual Conference, which took place in July 7-10, 2020. (And if you haven’t already registered for this year’s ABLC Digital on May 3-7, 2021, check it out now here.) There […]
Why that Company that releases fertilizers so sloooow is getting traction so faaaaast: Anuvia raises $103M to accelerate deployment
In Florida, Anuvia Plant Nutrients today announced it has raised $103 million in Series C funding, co-led by TPG ART and Pontifax Global Food and Agriculture Technology Fund (Pontifax AgTech), with additional investment from Generate and Piva Capital. Those slow-release fertilizers: the backstory. Granulated fertilizers have been around for quite a number of years. Most […]
Working together towards net zero – Origin Materials to combine with Artius in IPO
In California and New York, two companies are coming together for a match made in heaven to create the first publicly traded pure play carbon negative materials company. Origin Materials and Artius Acquisition Inc., signed a definitive agreement for a business combination – the combined company will be named Origin Materials, will be led by […]
The Sage of Hastings-on-Hudson: The Wit and Wisdom of Ron Cascone
In New York, Ronald F. Cascone died on Friday, March 5th from complications of COVID and after a long battle with esophageal cancer. He was 77. Cascone was known around the world as one of the foremost authorities on the advanced bioeconomy, an acerbic critic of cant, pettifoggery and hype and a champion of emerging […]
Aquaman supports algae-based sneakers, hemp barrister wigs, mushroom leather, and more: The Digest’s Top 8 Innovations for the week of March 5th
Last week we had Iron Man and Bill Gates. This week it’s Aquaman’s Jason Momoa who is supporting a biobased economy with his support of algae-based sneakers. And if you thought no one was wearing barrister wigs anymore, check out the new vegan hemp wigs instead of traditional horsehair for UK’s barristers, who yes, apparently […]
Fuels from thin air: Prometheus joins the chase to make captured CO2 into net zero hydrocarbon fuels
One more company to focus on in our tour of CO2 usage. It’s another electrofuels play called Prometheus Fuels using atmospheric CO2 using water, electricity, and nanotube membranes to produce commercially viable fuels. The project was one of two selected for investment in March of 2019 by Y Combinator, a prominent Silicon Valley business incubator, […]
Hardened Storage: CarbonBuilt debuts as its concrete-based carbon sequester tech advances
In California, CO2Concrete changed its name to CarbonBuilt to better align with its mission to store significant amounts of carbon dioxide in concrete used for the built environment. The company also announced the appointment of climate-tech veteran Rahul Shendure as Chief Executive Officer, known throughout the industry for his work in pre-IPO days at Amyris […]
The return of Electrofuels: Amazon, Mitsubishi, AP Ventures invest in Infinium’s bid to make fuels from CO2, water
What is it? The Infinium Electrofuels process converts renewable power into green hydrogen, then uses this green hydrogen and waste carbon dioxide to produce net-zero carbon fuels. These fuels may be used in today’s plane, ship and truck fleets without changes in infrastructure. Nearly a quarter of global carbon emissions stem from the transportation sector, […]
