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Decarbonising play: how to green the billion-dollar global toy industry
Like most of the consumer landscape, the $90.7 billion children’s toy industry is embedded in the fossil economy. As elsewhere, the main hurdle to decarbonising it is plastic.
Bio-based car parts could reduce the impacts of EVs
Lemon, almond, and pomegranates could well form the beginnings of a moreish dessert recipe but in the hands of the BARBARA project, an EU-private sector partnership, they became chemical ingredients for a biobased car dashboard.
Why investment could return to precision fermented protein
Something strange is happening in the world of alternative proteins. Investment into the sector surged in 2019 until reaching a record $5.1 billion in 2021. The bonanza ended almost as soon as it began, however, drying up by 2022 and…
Regenerating the bioeconomy
The efficacy of corporate-led decarbonisation has come under increasing fire recently and not just from environmentalists.
5 Minutes With Niels van Stralen, CEO of ChainCraft
ChainCraft is a Dutch biotech company that develops and exploits proprietary fermentation processes to produce biochemicals from organic waste, providing sustainable chemicals to improve our daily lives. As with most start-up ventures, it has faced many challenges in its exciting…
The role of the bioeconomy in climate mitigation Part 2: Agriculture and food
Between 2023 and 2050, the world must avoid or absorb 24.9 gigatonnes of carbon to have a chance of keeping global warming to within 2 degrees by 2100.