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22 January 201421 January 2014

Global trade of softwood lumber in 2013 to reach its highest level in five years, reports the Wood Resource Quarterly

Global Timber and Wood Products Market Update

Neste Oil’s sustainability verification system approved by the European Commission

Company's new, own system, to be a useful addition for verifying sustainability of renewable inputs, particularly waste and residue

Jolt! Bioeconomy Coalition of Minnesota aims to boost Chems and Advanced Biofuels industries with new policy initiatives

Minnesota Green Chemistry Conference proposing new production incentive program for renewable chemicals and advanced biofuels

Ethanol: The Next Generation

These are the voyages of the ethanol fleet. Their continuing mission: to explore strange new fuels, seek out new biologies and re-power our civilization, to affordably go where no technology has gone before.

20th European Biomass Conference

Exclusive interview with Daniel Gibbs (General Biomass Company)

Internationaler Agrarministergipfel in Berlin: 69 Staaten vereint im Kampf gegen weltweiten Hunger und Mangelernährung

Friedrich: "Nur eine widerstandsfähige Landwirtschaft sichert Ernährung"

New study: Carbon Intensity of Marginal Petroleum and Corn Ethanol Fuels

Corn Ethanol Reduces GHG Emissions by 37-40% Compared to Fracking and Tar Sands

New bio-plastic wins award nomination

New full recyclable and biodegradable Polymer Floreon requires less energy to produce and transforms packaging around the world

21 January 201420 January 2014

Turning up the heat on enzyme design

Team of Yale engineers developed method for designing temperature adaptive enzymes

Carbon dioxide tamed

Using a copper catalyst to unite carbon dioxide with organic molecules under mild conditions could make this ubiquitous gas industrially useful

Clean energy investment falls for second year – correction to press release

Investment in renewable energy and energy smart technologies dropped 11% in 2013, after falling 10% in 2012

Roboter in der Landwirtschaft: Die Revolution hat gerade erst begonnen

Sense und Spitzhacke haben bereits länger ausgedient: Damit der Hunger der Welt gestillt werden kann, werden Drohnen, Roboter und vollautonome Landmaschinen den modernen Ackerbau grundlegend umpflügen

Grundsteinlegung für Pilotanlage zu Speicherung von Erneuerbaren Energien

Anlagenteil „Biogene Methanisierung“ mit rund 1,3 Millionen Euro gefördert

GREEN BRANDS Awards 2013

Auszeichnung der Preisträger im Rahmen einer Gala im Scandic Berlin

Flachsbarth: “Mit dem Internationalen Saatgutvertrag stärken wir die nachhaltige Landwirtschaft weltweit”

Das Bundesministerium für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft will die Förderung der Nutzpflanzenvielfalt durch den Internationalen Saatgutvertrag weiterhin kräftig unterstützen

Sicherer Halt durch einen zuverlässigen Verschluss

Masterbatch für ein umweltfreundliches und stabiles Zugband vom Müllbeuteln

New bioplastics venture to use fisheries waste stream

Sierra Resins, Inc. announces venture with Dr. Jason Bolton, Food Safety Expert, to Develop Next-Generation Bioplastics used in Food Packaging and Processing Industries

EU could cut emissions by 40 percent at moderate cost

Upscaling greenhouse-gas emissions reduction from the current 20 percent by 2020 to 40 percent by 2030 would be likely to cost less than an additional 0.7 percent of economic activity

Butamax, Iogen, OPX Bio, Green Biologics C-Level execs commit to ABLC 2014

Addressing Building Fermentation Technologies into great companies

20 January 201417 January 2014

2014 set to be a bumper year for biobased industry as funding pours in from the EU

Bio-based Industries Initiative to help Europe compete in the global bioeconomy market

Brazil Sugar Mills Use Most of Record Cane Crop to Make Ethanol

Output jumped 19 percent to 25.4 billion liters (6.7 billion gallons), while sugar production rose 0.6 percent to 34.3 million metric tons

A Replacement for Man

Is succinic acid’s path to success right through Maleic Anhydride (MAN)? And can it change the narrative for every biobased molecule replacing a fossil-based one? And what does this exactly have to do with the poet Alexander Pope? We investigate

Plastic waste: Parliament sounds the alarm

MEPs claiming ban of the most hazardous plastics, review of the current EU directive on packaging waste

First plastic cell with working organelle

Nijmegen researchers created organelles by placing tiny chemicals-filled spheres inside a water drople

Government to unveil South Africa’s Bio-economy Strategy

Bio-innovation essential to the achievement of government's industrial and social development goals

EU Sees Rising Food Output by 2023 on Export and Biofuel Demand

“Agricultural commodity prices are expected to stay firm over the medium term, supported by factors such as the growth in global food demand, the development of the biofuel sector and a low productivity growth,” the European Commission wrote

Biokunststoff im Höhenflug

Der Online-Marktplatz Öko- und Upcycling-Markt bietet eine große Auswahl an alternativen Biokunststoff-Produkten an

Greenpeace-Gründer wirbt für Goldenen Reis

Zulassung auf den Philippinen auf 2016 verschoben - „AllowGoldenRiceNow“ Europatournee gestartet

Große Bäume sind die besten Kohlendioxid-Speicher

Internationale Forschungskooperation veröffentlicht neuste Erkenntnisse für die Bewertung des Klimawandels und der Biodiversitätswissenschaft

Fraunhofer UMSICHT auf der Grünen Woche

Entwicklung biobasierter Weichmacher

Die Landwirtschaft im Zentrum des Klimawandels – PIK veröffentlicht Studienergebnisse

Weltmärkte für Nahrungsmittel: Klimawandel größerer Preistreiber als die Bioenergie

17 January 20149 September 2021

INVISTA to collaborate with CPI to develop gas-based, bio-derived process technology

Scale-up for the development of new gas-fermentation-based routes to industrial chemicals

Faurecia looks at supplying compounds

Company presentation at International Auto Show in Detroit Jan. 13

Plastikmüll: Parlament schlägt Alarm

Abgeordnete fordern Verbot der gefährlichsten Plastikprodukte und Überarbeitung der Verpackungsrichtlinie

Mehr Umweltfreundlichkeit im Lebensmittelbereich nötig

Internationale Grüne Woche: vzbv und UBA stellen gemeinsame Handlungsempfehlungen vor

Newly Licensed Medicinal Cannabis Producer, Bedrocan Canada, to Import Legal Cannabis Strains to Canada

Global Leader in Cannabis Research and Education Brings Its Values to the Canadian Market

Studie sagt schwerere und länger anhaltende Dürren in Europa voraus

Weite Teile Europas müssen sich auf schwerere und länger anhaltende Dürren sowie fallende Flusspegel einstellen - Das ist das Ergebnis einer Studie, an der eine Forschungsgruppe der Universität Kassel beteiligt war

EU-Strategie gegen Kunststoffabfälle in der Umwelt

EU-Parlament verabschiedet Bericht zu Kunststoffabfällen

Boeing Finds Significant Potential in “Green Diesel” as a Sustainable Jet Fuel

Price-competitive, biofuel reduces CO₂ emissions

16 January 201415 January 2014

India: Gujarat-based CMSCRI gets European patent for ‘green plastic’

Researchers isolated and used microbes from soil and ocean environments to turn Jatropha glycerol into plastic

Sustainability considerations for integrated biorefineries

‘Right’ policies will have to promote sustainable practices along the whole supply chain

Antrag für ZIM-Kooperationsnetzwerk „BioPlastik“ erfolgreich

Ziel: Erschließung der Potentiale innovativer, abbaubarer Biopolymere

New European Project to Develop a New 100% Compostable Material for Micro-irrigation Systems

Four companies to explore a solution to manage the plastic and the green waste in a composting plant

Nachwachsende Rohstoffe hoch 3 auf der Grünen Woche

FNR auf der nature.tec und in zwei weiteren Hallen präsent

15 January 201414 January 2014

Wie Waldluft das Klima beeinflusst

Göttinger Chemiker vermessen einen für die Aerosolbildung entscheidenden Reaktionsschritt

BDI – BioEnergy International AG obtains largest commission in the company’s history

BioEnergy International AG has been commissioned to build the biggest Multi-Feedstock BioDiesel plant in the world in the Netherlands with an estimated worth of EUR 47 million

Nemus Holzfahrrad aus Furnierröhren

LignoTubes mit Materialica Award für CO₂ Effizienz ausgezeichnet

14 January 201413 January 2014

Synthetische Biologie – neue Pläne für das Leben

Die synthetische Biologie nutzt die Grundbausteine des Lebens, um neue Substanzen und Systeme zu erzeugen

Parliament, Commission set for clash over 2030 clean energy goals

The European Parliament voted for three binding energy and climate targets in 2030 audaciously backing a 40% energy savings improvement

‘Meat Atlas’ sheds light on hidden costs of beef, pigmeat

Europeans need to more aware of the little-known environmental and social cost of their high-meat diets, green campaigners said at the launch of their global ‘Meat Atlas’ report on Thursday (9 January)

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