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20 March 202315 March 2023

Wenn Mikroorganismen Plastik abbauen – “Schnell Lösungen finden”

Möglichst wenig Plastik sollte in die Umwelt gelangen. An bioabbaubaren Produkten wird gearbeitet – Wissenschaft und Industrie sollten gemeinsam vorgehen

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17 March 202314 March 2023

The EU needs a business case for carbon removals

Carbon dioxide from biomethane and ethanol facilities is already routinely separated and transported at scale, for industrial purposes. The practice just needs to be adopted generally

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16 March 202313 March 2023

Große Chancen und Herausforderungen für Biokunststoffe

AIMPLAS Seminar: Die weltweite Produktion von Biokunststoffen verdreifacht sich bis 2027 auf 6,3 Mio. t, doch es sind auch Herausforderungen zu meistern

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Global AIMPLAS Seminar Highlights Biopolymers

Innovations for agriculture and packaging that use bioplastics or sustainable bio-composites were featured

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9 March 20236 March 2023

Hydrogen: The path towards decarbonisation

The full energy transition to hydrogen will be an important pillar for facing the power of decarbonising all areas of the economy so that the roadmap for hydrogen is established

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Production of Bioplastics Will Triple by 2027 and Reach 6.3 Million Tonnes

AIMPLAS, the Plastics Technology Centre, inaugurated the eighth edition of its International Seminar on Biopolymers and Sustainable Composites, where nearly 20 speakers discussed the challenges and opportunities facing the bioplastics industry, and presented their innovations and success stories

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8 March 20233 March 2023

Pathways towards circular plastics in Europe — good practice examples from countries, business and citizens

Plastics play an essential role in modern society. However, their value chain is currently unsustainable, contributing to the generation of climate changing emissions and increasing waste and pollution. Reducing such impacts while retaining plastics’ usefulness requires a shift towards a more circular and sustainable plastics system. This shift can be accelerated by scaling up good practice examples and making improvements across the plastics value chain

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Can clothes ever be fully recycled?

The world's first commercial-scale textile recycling mill is a milestone in tackling fashion's colossal waste problem

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24 February 202317 December 2024

What are natural polymers?

The proposed definition of "natural polymers" and its impact on biopolymers in the context of the REACH restriction on microplastics

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23 February 202321 February 2023

EU sees brutal drop in renewable energy used in transport

Recently released figures by EU statistics agency Eurostat show a spectacular drop in the amount of renewable energy used in the transport sector for 2021, a trend that affects almost all EU countries and is due to a change in the calculation methodology for biofuels

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Eurostat: Starker Rückgang von erneuerbaren Energien im Verkehrssektor

Kürzlich veröffentlichte Zahlen der europäischen Statistikbehörde Eurostat zeigen einen deutlichen Rückgang des Anteils erneuerbarer Energien im Verkehrssektor für das Jahr 2021. Fast alle EU-Staaten sind von diesem Trend betroffen, der auf eine Änderung der Berechnungsmethodik für Biokraftstoffe zurückzuführen ist

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22 February 20239 April 2025

Paving the way for a renewable-powered future: New EU research project EMPHASIS to develop novel supercapacitors

A cutting-edge energy storage system to meet increasing global energy demands 

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14 February 20239 February 2023

LEAK: Commission details subsidy-matching scheme for green industry

The leaked document, labelled ‘sensitive’ and seen by EURACTIV, intends to “specify the criteria for the assessment of the compatibility with the internal market of State aid measures”

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Durchgesickert: EU-Kommission will Alleingang Deutschlands bei Subventionen verhindern

Das durchgesickerte "sensible" Dokument beabsichtigt, „die Kriterien für die Bewertung der Vereinbarkeit staatlicher Beihilfemaßnahmen mit dem Binnenmarkt zu spezifizieren“

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9 February 20236 February 2023

Aker Carbon Capture enters Finnish Power-to-X market

The St1 Power-to-Methanol Lappeenranta project use the hard-to-abate carbon dioxide emissions from the limestone raw-material at the Finnsementti factory

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8 February 20236 February 2023

Entwicklung neuer Biopolymere aus Meeresorganismen

Forscher für biobasierte und biologisch abbaubare Kunststoffe an der Université Bretagne Sud und sein Team arbeiten für das EU-Projekt NenuPHAr

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Holcim’s Carbon2Business project receives €109.8 million in EU funding

Carbon2Business is one of two projects in Germany and 17 projects in total that the EU is funding with around €1.8 billion from the innovation fund

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7 February 20236 February 2023

Replacing single-use plastic film with algae-based biodegradable edible film

A promising project in line with the EU objectives of fighting plastic pollution aims to create a substitute for single-use plastic film in conserving frozen fish

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6 February 20231 February 2023

AIMPLAS collaborates in a new European project to make blueprint for reducing textile waste by 80%

The tExtended project started last December and will achieve this objective by developing and demonstrating effective textile recovery, waste valorization and recycling processes

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1 February 20234 October 2024

Monthly news from the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI), January 2023

Lets take a look at what happened in January 2023 at RCI

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26 January 202317 December 2024

New tailwind for renewable carbon plastics in EU policy?

nova-Institute’s take on the recently published EU proposal for a Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation as well as the new policy framework for biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics

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23 January 202320 January 2023

Cellulose Fibre Innovation of the Year 2023 – From Hygiene Products, Sustainability Improved Technologies to Cellulose from Textile Waste and Banana Production Waste

Six award nominees will present promising sustainable solutions for the industry in the field of cellulose fibres value chains. The full innovation potential of the cellulose fibre industry will be displayed to a wide audience in Cologne (Germany), and online

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„Cellulose Fibre Innovation of the Year 2023“ – Von Hygieneprodukten und nachhaltigen Technologien bis hin zu Cellulose aus Altkleidern und Bananenproduktionsabfällen

Sechs Nominierte stellen vielversprechende nachhaltige Lösungen entlang der gesamten industriellen Wertschöpfungskette der Cellulosefasern vor. Das gesamte Innovationspotenzial der Cellulosefaser-Industrie wird in Köln und online einem breiten Publikum vorgestellt

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11 January 20236 January 2023

EU countries prepare for textile recycling big bang

A 2021 report by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre found that around 4-6% of the EU’s overall environmental footprint can be traced back to textiles

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6 January 202328 December 2022

EU Commission chief hails ‘historic’ COP15 biodiversity accord

After two weeks of fraught negotiations, world nations gathered in Montreal adopted on Monday (19 December) a new package to address the loss of biodiversity and restore natural ecosystems

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Welt beschließt „historisches“ COP15-Artenschutzabkommen

Nach zwei Wochen schwieriger Verhandlungen haben die in Montreal versammelten Nationen am Montag ein neues Paket zum Schutz der Biodiversität und zur Wiederherstellung natürlicher Ökosysteme verabschiedet

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5 January 20232 January 2023

European Green Deal: Putting an end to wasteful packaging, boosting reuse and recycling

New proposals of the European Commission are key building blocks of the European Green Deal's Circular Economy Action Plan and its objective to make sustainable products the norm

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EU-Verpackungsverordnung: Von Anfang an im Kreislauf denken

Die EU-Kommission will mit ihrem neuen Entwurf einer Verpackungsverordnung darauf setzen, die von Verpackungsabfällen ausgehenden Umweltwirkungen entlang des gesamten Lebensweges zu mindern

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Fünf europäische Pilotregionen schließen sich für die Bioökonomie zusammen

Die BIOPRO Baden-Württemberg beteiligt sich am Projekt ROBIN von Horizon Europe, um die Beteiligung von regionalen Bioökonomie-Strategien europaweit zu verbessern

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Five European pilot regions are joining forces for the bioeconomy

BIOPRO Baden-Württemberg participates in the Horizon Europe ROBIN project to improve the participation of regional bioeconomy strategies and related policies across Europe

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3 January 202322 December 2022

EU agrees carbon market overhaul in bid to hit 2030 climate goal

European Union negotiators reached agreement early on Sunday morning (18 December) to reform the EU’s Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS), the biggest carbon market in the world and the bloc’s flagship climate policy instrument

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EU einigt sich auf umfassende Reform des CO₂-Emissionshandels

Die Unterhändler der EU haben sich am frühen Sonntagmorgen (18. Dezember) auf eine Reform des europäischen Emissionshandels (ETS) geeinigt, dem größten Kohlenstoffmarkt der Welt und wichtigsten klimapolitischen Instrument der EU

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2 January 202321 December 2022

European Green Deal: Commission proposes certification of carbon removals to help reach net zero emissions

The European Commission adopted a proposal for afirst EU-wide voluntary framework to reliably certify high-quality carbon removals

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Europäischer Grüner Deal: Kommission schlägt Zertifizierung der CO2-Entnahme vor, um zu Klimaneutralität beizutragen

Die Europäische Kommission hat heute einen Vorschlag für einen ersten EU-weiten freiwilligen Rahmen zur zuverlässigen Zertifizierung hochwertiger CO2-Entnahmen angenommen

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22 December 202220 December 2022

EU agrees new law to kick deforestation out of supply chains

EU legislators reached an agreement in the early hours of Tuesday (6 December) to pass a new law guaranteeing that products sold in the EU are not linked to the destruction or degradation of forests

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Entwaldungsfreie Lieferketten: EU-Gesetz kommt

Die EU-Gesetzgeber haben sich darauf geeinigt, ein neues Gesetz zu verabschieden, das garantiert, dass in der EU verkaufte Produkte nicht mit der Zerstörung oder Schädigung von Wäldern in Zusammenhang stehen

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21 December 202215 December 2022

EU Commission launches industry alliance for ‘made in Europe’ solar PV

The European Commission on Friday (9 December) officially launched the EU’s solar photovoltaic industry alliance, with the aim of regaining production lost to China and establishing a “Made in Europe” industry

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19 December 202214 December 2022

Air Liquide, Fluxys Belgium and Port of Antwerp-Bruges awarded EU funding for building the Antwerp@C CO2 Export Hub

The project, named “Antwerp@C CO2 Export Hub”, is set up as an open-access infrastructure to transport, liquefy and load CO2 onto ships for onward permanent offshore storage

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15 December 202212 December 2022

Communication on a policy framework for biobased, biodegradable and compostable plastics

Questions and Answers that seek to deepen knowledge of these substances and make clear the areas where plastics can actually assist the environment

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13 December 20227 December 2022

Proposed new packaging rules acknowledge environmental and climate benefits of compostable plastic packaging

Commission misses opportunity to fully embrace necessary shift to biobased feedstock

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EU packaging law proposal branded ‘unworkable’ by food industry

A new EU packaging law proposal has sparked major concerns among the EU food industry, who warn it is unworkable for food business operators – but NGOs slammed heavy industry lobbying for watering down the proposal

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EU-Verpackungsgesetz sorgt in Landwirtschaftssektor für Furore

Ein neuer Vorschlag für ein EU-Verpackungsgesetz hat in der EU-Lebensmittelindustrie große Besorgnis ausgelöst

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2 December 202230 November 2022

Electrochaea Joins New European Cleantech Scale-Up Coalition, Supported by Breakthrough Energy and Kadri Simson

The coalition members are companies scaling and industrialising technologies whose products and services range from decarbonising industry and energy with renewable hydrogen to producing scalable low-carbon cement; from electrifying transport to recycling materials and batteries

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1 December 202229 November 2022

NGO, biofuel industry clash over vegan food from ethanol

Non-governmental organisation Transport and Environment (T&E) and the ethanol industry have clashed over the latter’s increasing interest in producing vegan food in addition to biofuel, which aims to end the long-standing “food versus fuel” argument

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22 November 202217 November 2022

In focus: Renewable hydrogen to decarbonise the EU’s energy system

With an accelerated deployment, the share of hydrogen in the EU’s energy mix could be as much as 13-20% in 2050

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15 November 202210 November 2022

Bioeconomy strategies in EU regions. Where are we?

Research shows there's a growing number of regional bioeconomy strategies following the launch of the revised EU Bioeconomy strategy in 2018

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10 November 20227 November 2022

Burning or recycling? EU weighs options on used tyres

Draft EU rules could see millions of tyres shipped outside of Europe for dumping or incineration, recyclers warn

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9 November 20223 November 2022

Finland to likely reject Brussels’ biodiversity strategy

Finland may vote against the Biodiversity Strategy tabled by the Commission, said Prime Minister Sanna Marin after the parliament committee opposed Brussels’ involvement in the country’s forest policy

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Waldpolitik: Finnland könnte EU-Biodiversitätsstrategie blockieren

Finnland wird möglicherweise gegen die von der Kommission vorgelegte Biodiversitätsstrategie stimmen, da diese als Einmischung Brüssels in die Waldpolitik des Landes wahrgenommen wird

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3 November 202231 October 2022

Biorefineries – the engine of the bio-based economy

The European Union is investing billions of euros in biorefineries that can develop products based on organic materials and help decrease the bloc’s reliance on oil and gas