By Michael Newman, Chief Operating Officer, Parhelion Underwriting Inc. Special to The Digest 2018 saw the shipping industry take its first steps towards addressing the challenge of climate change when, at its 72nd session in April, IMO’s Marine Environment Protection Committee (MEPC) adopted an initial strategy to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from shipping by […]
By Philipp Stratmann, VP Biofuels, Velocys Special to The Digest At this year’s ABLC Next Conference in San Francisco Velocys presented on the opportunity to produce negative emission fuels at our planned Bayou Fuels facility in Natchez, Mississippi. Whilst we were not the only company presenting on advanced biofuel products at the conference, our integration […]
By Dr. Graciela Chichilnisky, co-founder and CEO of Global Thermostat and co-author of Reversing Climate Change, and Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics at Columbia University. Special to The Digest The pace of global climate change is accelerating. So is our understanding of what it takes to avert catastrophic climate change. The world’s power plant […]
By Zoltan Kish, Ph.D., Lee Enterprises Consulting, Inc. Special to The Digest The increasing amount of waste is one of the most challenging problems facing the World, which creates enormous environmental problems. According to the World Bank, Canada produces the most waste per capita in the world. Additionally, Canada recycles just 9 percent of its […]
By CJ Evans, Managing Director, American Diversified Energy Consulting Services and Executive Director, Alternative Fuels & Chemicals Coalition Special to The Digest Let’s be honest. It doesn’t matter how revolutionary or good your technology or product is if you cannot secure the funding for it. FEDERAL FUNDING There is more than $54 billion available in funding […]
Challenges and Opportunities in Biofuels By Steve Hartig, Former VP of Technology Development at ICM Special to The Digest The North American biofuels market can be split into three main segments all of which have major dynamics. What I would like to do is give a high-level overview of what I see as some of […]
By Paolo Corvo, Head of Sales & Marketing Business Line Biofuels & Derivatives at Clariant Special to The Digest Bioenergy, and in particular advanced biofuels, will help mitigating climate change, will significantly contribute to reach national and global emission goals, and play a key role in the decarbonization of the transport sector. Multiple studies agree […]
By Michele Rubino, Special to The Digest I attended the Argus Biofuels & Carbon Markets Summit in Napa Valley October 21-23 2019. Time flies. The last time I was at the gathering was 2015. Donald Trump had recently announced his candidacy riding down the now famous escalator in Trump Tower alongside Melania, while David Cameron […]
By Dave VanderGriend, President Urban Air Initiative Special to The Digest There have been many Hollywood movies where a character woke up to find they had become something else—a grown up becoming a kid, or a woman becoming a man, and so forth. Seems crazy but perhaps not so much because anyone who owns a […]
Green Chemistry Campus, REWIN and Wageningen University are planning the development of the first multipurpose Polymerization Shared Facility Pilot Plant in Bergen op Zoom. In this facility new and redesigned bio-polymers can be produced at a sub-commercial scale.Currently the consortium is looking for companies in the field of new (biobased) polymers that are interested to […]
