DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Pesticide and Biotech Lobby Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Switzerland all brought companies and lobby groups as members of their country delegations – lending pesticides and biotechnology representatives direct access to negotiations. He added it was critical that negotiations were free from “intense industry pressure” in future.

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Biodiversity Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring COP 144

AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Forsea claims that eels have become an endangered species, after demand for the delicacy surged in Asia and Europe in particular. Probably the full-blown manufacturing plant will be based in Asia because such a manufacturing plant is very large.

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Seafood Startups Asia Incubators 94

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 21, 2021

She has been involved in oil, gas and mining projects and businesses in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas. She is also Founder and President of Technica Communications, where she handles marketing, social media, content production and public relations for cleantech and biotech startups.

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Sustainability Biotech Carbon Technology 105

AFN Sustainable Protein

DECEMBER 28, 2022

billion and were split across North America, Asia and Oceana. AgFunder data shows that three of the top five 2022 deals for agrifoodtech were in these food delivery sectors. Collectively the top 2022 deals totaled $2.79 Other key sectors include Bioenergy & Biomaterials and cultivated meat. A Getir e-bike.

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Startups North America Investment Seafood 15

Grist

APRIL 17, 2021

While there have been more than 7,300 dengue cases reported in the United States between 2010 and 2020, a majority are contracted in Asia and the Caribbean, according to the U.S. The production supervisor of biotech company Oxitec, Sofia Bastos Pinto, looks at transgenic Aedes aegypti mosquitos at the lab in Campinas, Brazil in 2014.

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Biotechnology Technology Health Biotech 127

AFN Sustainable Protein

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

We are very much focused on the European, Mediterranean, and North American spaces, but we also have collaborations with Asia initiated. AFN: And are there any particular regions that you will be focusing on? GT: Yes and no at the moment. A few months from now it’ll be different and we’ll have other geographies added.

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Startups Organic Carbon-negative Sustainability 84

Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Unilever is also exploring the use of algae for its food products through a recently brokered partnership with UK biotech start-up Algenuity, he says. East Asia is a significant potential market, Verkuil notes, seeing as plant-based protein products such as soy and tofu have long been a dietary cornerstone of the region.

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Carbon-negative Meat alternatives Innovation Biotech 85

AFN Sustainable Protein

JANUARY 30, 2023

Entocycle , a UK startup that provides technologies and services for the insect farming industry, has secured $5 million in a Series A round from a pool of climate-positive institutional investors and athletes as angel investors.

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Startups Waste Waste Upcycling 92

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

is preparing the launch of a new fund dedicated to the market opportunity presented by alternative proteins, one of its founding partners, Rob Leclerc reflects: “We’ve seen lofty valuations in the sector driven by a trifecta of investor inexperience in biotech, food, and venture capital.

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Startups Biotech Investment Demand 52

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

Applying the latest technologies from biotech, tissue engineering, artificial intelligence, and food science, entrepreneurs are trying to create new animal-free products that are cheaper, healthier, tastier, and more sustainable. Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors.

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Technology Agriculture Health Startups 52

AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 12, 2019

A worldwide pork deficit is impending and one virus is to blame. But who’s going to fill in the gaps? Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods? The post Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low?

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Biotech Asia Health Sustainability 53

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 19, 2021

Projects and progress My Green Lab’s 15 partners and sponsors include biotech giant Genentech, MilliporeSigma and USA Scientific. Connelly hopes to see a similar growth trajectory at My Green Lab, which has an ambassador program and accreditation program in development.

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Plastics Sustainability Recycling Recycling 28

AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 12, 2019

Demand for meat is growing faster in Asia, especially China, than anywhere else on the planet — and satiating the continent’s demand has global implications,” the Impossible Foods spokesperson told us. China is absolutely on our radar.

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Demand Asia Health Biotechnology 52

Climate Tech VC

APRIL 4, 2025

There was also an appetite for bigger biotech deals, and we saw a number of smaller grid-related deals.   Small modular reactors and fusion had a strong showing (with Helion, X-energy, and Marvel Fusion), and so did biotech (Inari and Tidal Vision).  Nuclear and fusion deals were three of those four.

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Startups Biotech Investment Lithium 57

GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Six years later, he is CEO of Clara Foods, a biotech food company that uses fermentation to create egg proteins without involving chickens. Global Compact, as co-founder of sustainable fashion company Fauna and as project manager for sustainable fashion at nonprofit Redress Asia, among other roles.

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Sustainability Carbon-neutral Waste Waste 109