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The EU boosts support for algae businesses
Algae is among most abundant, diverse, chemically rich, and low-input feedstocks. Bio-based startups working with these organisms have become targets of EU green investment over the last ten years and the EU Commission has supported at least 300 algae-related projects…
The environmental startups looking beyond carbon emissions
At COP15 last year, more than 330 businesses called on heads of state to make biodiversity and ecosystem disclosure a mandatory part of financial reporting. These included Aviva Investors, BNP Paribas, Danone, GSK, H&M Group, IKEA, Nestle, and Tata Steel.
Costa Rica’s world-leading bioeconomy strategy
Costa Rica established its first ever National Bioeconomy strategy in 2020. At the heart of the programme lies the country’s immense biological riches. Home to 6% of the world’s wildlife despite occupying just 0.03% of its surface area, Costa Rica…
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…