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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Agro-chemical and biotechnology groups – such as Syngenta, BASF and their lobby group Croplife – enjoyed privileged access to negotiations in Colombia, coming in as part of country delegations with Brazil, Mexico, Switzerland and Canada. Their delegates increased by 40 percent and 24 percent respectively since COP15.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2020

Nine new projects to share latest wave of government's green farming R&D funding. The government has announced the recipients for its latest wave of sustainable farming R&D funding, awarding £24m of support to nine projects working on everything from carbon capture technologies to fruit-picking robots.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Agency teams up with Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to launch new funding competition.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

government. For years, controversy has swirled around the ethics of using novel biotechnology for species conservation. government took Indigenous children, including at least one of Patterson’s own relatives, and placed them in boarding schools. Transgenic organisms contain DNA from other species.)

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Bioleaching To address this, bioleaching, a biotechnology process that uses bacteria to oxidise and leach out the metal content, is emerging as a potential game changer and an area which Bioscope Technologies is pioneering. A pure coin of Bioscope-stamped recycled gold (image credit: Bioscope Technologies).

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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.

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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 6, 2017

In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. According to the report, this problem causes up to 6,5 million deaths annually, not to mention the 1,6 trillion-dollar annual economic damage in EU, where governments are trying to treat air pollution.

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Grist

OCTOBER 7, 2019

On Monday, the scientists studying these gene-edited cattle published a paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology explaining what happened. But because these cattle had DNA from a bacteria, it meant they were genetically modified organisms, or GMOs in the eyes of government regulators.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

The partnership builds on Drax's on-going work with Deep Branch Biotechnology to explore the potential of using trapped CO2 emissions to make proteins for animal feed. The energy giant said the partnerships could help other industries source more sustainable plastic products and help the agricultural sector decarbonise.

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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. This led to a government consultation on the matter. And that's a problem.

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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. It doesn't take much to notice the boom that alternative proteins - plant based, fermented or cultivated meat substitutes - are experiencing in the UK.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

University of Sheffield professor of chemical engineering and chemistry Peter Styring explains to BusinessGreen how Unilever's new commitment could spur public understanding and government support for a transition away from fossil fuel derived chemicals. But the funding doesn't reflect this, in terms of government funding.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2020

Instead, Sustainable New Zealand will work with major parties on either side of the political spectrum, giving them a stronger hand in negotiating to get as many environmental policies into government. Elsewhere, Green centrism has been prevalent.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Now, government representatives from nearly 200 countries along with scientists, Indigenous groups, and environmental activists are gathered in the southern city of Cali to negotiate how to put this plan into action: protect earth’s habitats and the people who depend on them. The Convention on Biological Diversity was approached for comment.

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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. Introducing "low-carbon governance". Engaging on sector-focused initiatives that could create momentum.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 15, 2019

” Perhaps Motif can answer some of the challenges ahead for scaling the plant-based meat industry, and the company also hired a new head of regulatory, government and industry affairs, Janet Collins to take on the increasing number of regulatory headaches facing the space.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 28, 2020

While in the last few years, there’s been a push by state and national governments to require more gender diversity representation on corporate boards, women are largely underrepresented as corporate board members. Yet we are under represented at the governance level of corporations. As of 2018, women held only 20.8% trillion in sales.

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2022

As governments around the world commit trillions of pounds to recover from the unprecedented impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, the new study advises that Covid-19 recovery plans should focus on encouraging healthier diets comprising more fruit and vegetables, rather than solely focusing on economic growth.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Beverley Gower-Jones is an independent member of the UK government's Net Zero Innovation Board. At the Clean Growth Fund , our primary role is to identify, evaluate and invest in the companies that will make superior returns for our investors and have the biggest impact on net zero in the shortest timeframe.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

.” Unilever’s Clean Future program specifically will focus on funding biotechnology research, CO2 use and low-carbon chemistry, as well as biodegradable and water-efficient product formulations. “But the funding doesn’t reflect this, in terms of government funding. . could emerge as a world leader.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Back to normal is not an option To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. History has shown us that government funding of visionary projects can have enormous positive outcomes.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 23, 2020

Back to normal is not an option To rebuild the economy, the United States government so far seems to choose to deploy the same playbook it did in 2008: funding legacy companies in industries such as oil and gas. History has shown us that government funding of visionary projects can have enormous positive outcomes.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 13, 2018

Several speakers offered the example of genetically modified foods as a cautionary tale of how a lack of government review can lead to mistrust of technology; GMO foods bypassed thorough safety verification by the FDA when they received a “generally recognized as safe” designation (GRAS).

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 13, 2018

Several speakers offered the example of genetically modified foods as a cautionary tale of how a lack of government review can lead to mistrust of technology; GMO foods bypassed thorough safety verification by the FDA when they received a “generally recognized as safe” designation (GRAS).

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Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

The Innovation of the Year is always one of the most competitive categories, but this year N2S won out with the judges thanks to its pioneering work to harness advanced biotechnology to tackle the seemingly intractable problem of electronic waste and the huge environmental footprint that comes with it.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Just ask Luis Lombana, CEO of Ficosterra , a Spanish marine biotechnology company that makes fertilisers from an unexpected source: seaweed. The Global Tourism Resilience and Crisis Management Center estimates that governments spent about $120m in 2019 trying to clean Caribbean beaches, with limited success.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 27, 2020

The new processes, which reflect scientific advancements in industrial biotechnology and electrolysis, range from fermentation (using proprietary microorganisms) to electrocatalysis and are at varying stages of development (research scale to full commercialization).

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

✅ Early government support: Brimstone attracted ARPA-E funding , Fervo won $17M in government grants, and Twelve received grants from the National Science Foundation. Gas boiler industry lobbyists are attempting to delay the UK government plans’ to increase the uptake of heat pumps and phase out gas boilers by 2025.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 12, 2019

State and territory governments are currently implementing preparedness measures in the event that an ASF incursion occurs. There is also, of course, a wealth of potential for biotechnologies to not just treat viruses like ASF but also prevent them. . Do you have or know a technology that could help? Please reach out joe@agfunder.com.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Delegates from the meat and dairy sector sent 52 delegates to the summit this year, with 20 travelling in with Brazil’s government, the analysis found. A more robust governance and transparency framework at the UNFCCC is urgently needed to mitigate conflicts of interest and safeguard the integrity of climate negotiations.”

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Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 12, 2019

That’s really transformational, and I’m speaking to other government leaders about how we can adopt Hawaii?s Microvi | Biotechnologies for safe drinking water, wastewater treatment, and renewable chemicals | watch. s model in other economies.” “The rate in which you can go is the rate that you build trust.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

Others are making waves in the business world from other perches, including government, consultancies, startups and environmental justice advocacy groups. Companies have huge impacts, sometimes more than governments because of their economic power.". So many industries need help and want to change," she says.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Ramani Narayan, a professor at the Michigan Biotechnology Institute’s College of Engineering who was not involved in the study, agreed, although he stressed that the new research doesn’t exactly exonerate Asian countries. “All of this points to the need for us to reduce our production of single-use plastics,” Mallos said. “We

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

It’s hard to imagine how decades of warnings about climate change might have been received in government if there were more scientists sitting at the table. We need people who know what they are talking about and what the implications would be to be sitting at the table with the same level of importance and influence as any other.”.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

  Exits 🌾 80 Acres Farms , a Hamilton, OH-based vertical farming company acquired Plantae Biosciences, an Israeli, biotechnology company for an undisclosed amount.   ⚡ Stormfisher , a Toronto, Canada-based hydrogen-based fuel producer, raised $50m in Project finance from Hy24. 

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