In Finland, Newsnow Finland reports that Finnair has been forced by police to stop its “Push for Change” program that allowed customers to buy aviation biofuels for flights as well as reduce their carbon commissions by supporting a clean cooking program in Mozambique because it allegedly goes against the Money Collection Act. Instead, the company […]
In India, Cogencis news agency reports that sugar mills have offered only 315 million liters of ethanol to oil marketing companies during the most recent buy tender that sought 2.53 billion liters. Two of the 48 mills that presented offers were rejected for failure to submit proper paperwork. The recent droughts in Maharashtra and Karnataka […]
In the Netherlands, Avantium sold its bioaromatics patent portfolio to The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, TNO, for an undisclosed amount. The sale includes both patents and know-how for technologies that produce bio-derived products for polymers and coatings. These technologies lie outside Avantium’s strategic focus and will now be further developed by TNO. Avantium […]
In Germany, BASF expects a well-stocked agricultural pipeline with projected peak sales potential of more than $8.2 billion (€7.5 billion). By 2029, the company will launch more than 30 key projects, including novel seeds and traits, chemical and biological crop protection, digital products and new formulations. BASF will build on its research and development (R&D) […]
In Denmark, Novozymes A/S held its Annual Shareholders’ Meeting last week and approved several resolutions such as the distribution of profit in accordance with the annual report for 2019 with payment of a dividend of about .77 cents (DKK 5.25) per share of .29 cents (DKK 2), an increase of 5% compared with 2018. They […]
In Finland, in a drastic turn to eliminate coal as the main source of district heating, the City of Helsinki kicked off the Helsinki Energy Challenge – a global $1.1 million (€1 million) competition to find the future of urban heating. Ideas presented must not rely on fossil fuel or biomass fired heating as the […]
In New York, JetBlue Airways became the first-ever airline to deploy a sustainability-linked loan by amending its existing $550 million senior secured revolving credit facility (RCF) to include provisions to align its strategic initiatives with its environmental, social, and governance performance goals. BNP Paribas is the bank that assisted JetBlue as the sole Sustainability Structuring […]
In Germany, UFOP reports that the Ukraine has become more important for EU rapeseed supply, the US supplied large amounts of soybeans over the past months, and that the EU-28 has received around 8.7 million tonnes of soybeans from overseas in the 2019/20 season to date. This is down just about 6 per cent year-on-year. […]
In Japan, Japan Airlines, Marubeni, JXTG Nippon Oil and Energy and JGC Japan have agreed to jointly conduct a feasibility study on Sustainable Aviation Fuel production and sales in Japan through the use of industrial and municipal waste, including plastic waste. In this joint study, the parties plan to evaluate the feasibility of the entire […]
In Colorado, Gevo, Inc. has been awarded A$159,000 (US$104,686) part of The Queensland Waste to Biofutures (W2B) Fund to support the development of waste to biofutures projects in Queensland, Australia. The W2B fund provides targeted funding for pilot, demonstration or commercially scalable biorefinery projects in Queensland that use conventional waste streams or biomass to produce […]
