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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.
The bioeconomy’s role in global emissions reduction, part 1: Biofuels and biomaterials
Biofuels and biomaterials are keystone climate mitigation technologies. A 2023 study estimated that if all plastics today were replaced with biobased ones, greenhouse gas emissions savings could equal 369 megatonnes, or around 1% of global emissions.
Insect feed for healthier, lower-carbon chicken
The global agricultural industry is at a reckoning. Food emissions are a massive slice of our carbon emissions. To stay within the world’s net zero carbon budget, agriculture must become the target of urgent interventions.
A synbio takeover for AI?
Even the most hardened techno-sceptics have been taken aback by the natural language chat bots that were launched in quick succession over the past few months. Their moments of apparent intuitiveness and fluency makes the user almost forget they are…