In Belgium, in 2021, the EU spent €15.2 billion on imports of green energy products (including wind turbines, solar panels and liquid biofuels) from countries outside the EU. Meanwhile, the EU exported green energy products worth more than half this amount (€6.5 billion) to countries outside the EU. Specifically, the EU imported €11.2 billion worth […]
In Canada, Targray has launched its international Environmental Commodities trading desk. Operating jointly out of the company’s North American and European business centers, the new desk will be headed by an experienced team of carbon traders and sustainability leaders. Targray’s Environmental Commodities business engages in the trading and supply of carbon credits, carbon offsets and […]
In Germany, Deutsche Post DHL Group integrated sustainability targets into its business strategy at an early stage and is now taking it a step further by allowing to link the group’s sustainability targets to its future long-term financial instruments, hence further expanding its commitment to sustainability. To this end, the company has now introduced a […]
In New York state, Ecovative, the leading mycelium technology company, and ECCO Leather, a part of the Danish footwear brand ECCO and a world leader in innovative and premium leathers, have announced an ongoing partnership to develop and commercialize the next generation of mycelium materials for a range of new products. The first-of-its-kind partnership, between […]
In Germany, the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV) announced funding of EUR 3.1 million for the Methanol-to-SAF (M2SAF) development project that includes BASF, Thyssenkrupp, OMV, DLR and ASG joining forces with the aim of developing a novel process technology to facilitate the selective production of SAF that can be used as a drop-in fuel […]
In Singapore, Abendroth Fortel announced the release of new renewable diesel and SAF rates for the Asian markets. As countries in the region aim to cut their greenhouse gas emissions, this pricing is designed to fulfill the growing need for greater transparency in renewable fuel markets. Recently, countries like China, Japan, and South Korea have […]
In Australia, Flinders Shire Council in North Queensland has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Frontier Impact Group to conduct a feasibility study on such an innovative project because landholders across the region had struggled with millions of hectares of good grazing land infested with woody weeds, such as Chinee Apple, Prickly Acacia, and Leucaena. […]
In Austria, scientists have dubbed the new innovative substance “MycelioTronics” and researchers Johannes Kepler University Linz believe it’s a “global first” that could result in more sustainable electronics. At any rate, the fungal skin is an “ingenious barrier”. As described in the journal “Science Advances”, the approach was “more or less an accidental discovery”. Tnstitute […]
In Brazil, Reuters reports the current president of Brazil vetoed the coming National Council for Energy Policy (CNPE) decision that would allow biodiesel produced by “any technological route of production” to be included in the biodiesel blending mandate. Last week’s decision would have allowed Petrobras Gasóleo R5, a fuel co-processed with vegetable oil in a […]
In France, Neste and CIM, part of NOVEN Group in France, the leading independent French group of companies providing oil storage and supply services, announced their collaboration to enable the supply of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel into France. The collaboration enables fuel marketing companies to comply with the French mandate for sustainable aviation fuel […]
