In Germany, more than 5% of Lufthansa Group passengers have chosen a more sustainable travel option in 2025 – for example, the Green Fares flight fares. Four years ago, this share was below 0.1 percent. Last year, the volume of Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) sold across various offerings more than doubled. Passengers’ active commitment to […]
In Germany, the Fraunhofer Institute for Environmental, Safety and Energy Technology (Umsicht) has launched HighTech PLA, an effort to replace fossil‑based plastics in the electrical and electronics sector with biobased alternatives such as polylactic acid. While PLA is already used in packaging and consumer goods, adapting it for demanding electrical applications represents a significant leap […]
In Germany, Fabulose is an EU funded project coordinated by the German Institutes of Textile and Fiber Research (DITF). Its consortium consists of leading research institutes, biotech innovators, and industry stakeholders who aim to create high-performance, biobased and recyclable leather-like fabrics, using efficient biotech production routes for bacterial cellulose, cyanophycin and bacterial pigments Current leather […]
In Germany, green hydrogen is one of the most important pillars of the energy transition. It is produced from sunlight using photocatalytic processes. There are now a variety of technologies for converting and storing solar energy into chemical energy. But now, for the first time, a material has been successfully developed that can store the […]
In Germany, the nova-Institute has established a new Renewable Feedstock Department to lay the groundwork for industrial defossilisation. This strategic expansion is designed to address the critical challenges and opportunities involved in sustainably sourcing renewable carbon for the chemical and materials industries. Renewable Feedstock department will offer comprehensive services covering the entire value chain, including: · […]
In Germany, BioTreasure, backed by SPRIND and leveraging Insempra’s industrial biotechnology platform, has advanced to Stage III of SPRIND’s Circular Biomanufacturing Challenge, securing €2.5 million to scale its integrated bio-chemical manufacturing platform toward industrial deployment and commercialization. The platform integrates circular continuous fermentation with proprietary chemistry into a single manufacturing system for cost-efficient, industrial-scale production […]
In Germany, Bundesnetzagentur recently published two determinations setting price ceilings for the biomass and biomethane auctions to be held in 2026. The maximum price that can be bid for new biomass installations remains 19.43 cents per kilowatt hour (ct/kWh) and that for existing biomass installations 19.83 ct/kWh. A ceiling of 23.13 ct/kWh will apply to biomethane installations. The price ceilings for biomass […]
In Germany, Clariant recently announced a strategic collaboration with Vertimass LLC aiming to accelerate the development and commercialization of advanced zeolite catalysts for the catalytic conversion of biobased alcohols via Vertimass Consolidated Alcohols Deoxygenation and Oligomerization (CADO) process. The envisaged project combines Vertimass’ novel technology with Clariant’s six decades of expertise in zeolite catalyst development […]
In Germany, the new European rocket engine Greta has completed a hot-fire test campaign, demonstrating stable operations, shutdowns and multiple restarts on a mobile test stand developed by ArianeGroup for the European Space Agency at ArianeGroup’s Trauen site in Germany. Greta uses hydrogen peroxide and ethanol as propellants, a more sustainable alternative with a lower carbon […]
In Germany, the UN Convention to Combat Climate Change has approved the first credits to be issued under the UN carbon market established by the Paris Agreement. The approved activity is a clean‑cooking project in Myanmar, which distributes efficient cookstoves that reduce harmful household air pollution and lessen pressure on local forests. The project is coordinated […]
