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Blue Biofuels Finds Additional High Value Market for its Sulfur-Free Lignin


In Florida, Alliance BioEnergy Plus, DBA Blue Biofuels, Inc. announced a new market for its producti...


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Green MEP: Voluntary schemes have failed biodiversity in forests


This article is part of our special report Forestry and climate change. Voluntary schemes have not been enough to protect biodiversity in Europe’s forests and more coordinated measures are needed to protect nature in the EU, according to Green lawmaker Ville Niinistö. Ville Niinistö is a former Finnish minister of environment and is now a


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‘Fit-for-55’ package: Squaring the circle


With its 'Fit for 55' climate package, the European Union finds itself at the centre of a three-dime...


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Five ways CO2 can benefit the planet


Carbon dioxide is commonly seen as having a negative impact. After all, it is the main driver of climate change and something that needs to be reduced if we are to hit the Paris Agreement target of keeping global warming within the desired range of 1.5 degrees Celsius. Makoto Susaki, is a Senior Vice President


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Cycle for sustainable plastics


On the path to climate neutrality, the development of new raw material sources is of central importance. The Carbon2Chem project is investigating, among other things, where cross-sector networking between the steel and chemical industries is possible. The German government is funding the project until 2024. Covestro is contributing its expertise to the Carbon2Polymers subproject. Carbon-containing


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Kreislauf für nachhaltige Kunststoffe


Auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität ist die Erschließung neuer Rohstoffquellen von zentraler Bedeutung...


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Boeing and SkyNRG Partner to Scale Sustainable Aviation Fuels Globally


Boeing, SkyNRG and SkyNRG Americas today announced a partnership focused on scaling the availability and use of sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) globally. Boeing will also invest in SkyNRG Americas’ SAF production project, for which Alaska Airlines is a previously announced partner. Boeing to invest in SkyNRG Americas’ first dedicated U.S. production facility for SAF Facility


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Finland’s largest Power-to-Gas plant – Wärtsilä and Vantaa Energy to continue planning towards an investment decision


The technology group Wärtsilä and Finnish utility, Vantaa Energy Ltd, have signed a co-operation agreement for pre-engineering and development of a Power-to-Gas (P2G) plant for Vantaa Energy. The plant planned to be commissioned in 2025 would be the largest in Finland and also the first to produce carbon-neutral, synthetic methane on a commercial scale with


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LanzaTech and lululemon partner to create the first fabric using recycled carbon emissions


Jennifer Holmgren at IFIB 2018 in Turin, Italy Biotechnology company LanzaTech partnered with lu...


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From Waste to Wealth: Converting CO2 into Butanol Using Phosphorous-Rich Copper Cathodes, finds a new GIST Study


Researchers today are looking for ways to convert CO2, which is rapidly accumulating in the atmosphere, into other valuable organic products. Now, scientists from the Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology in South Korea have proposed a reaction for the highly selective production of 1-butanol, a valuable alternative fuel, by electrochemical reduction using copper phosphide


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