The Wagner Companies has actively been working toward implementing more green business practices since 2004, when they first participated in the Queensland Focus on Energy program. As a result, they have upgraded to more energy-efficient lighting; and hot-water boiler and air compressor systems. They also offer products and components that qualify for LEED credits. But most importantly for the bioeconomy, the company’s project at Wellcamp Airport and Business Park is on track to becoming one of the most sustainable carbon neutral destinations internationally. Wagners sustainability lead Matt D ..read more

By Wily Salim, LEC Partners Special to The Digest Approximately 71% of Earth’s surface is covered by water, which makes shipping a vital mode of transportation. The earliest known seafaring can be traced back to 6,000 BC, when ancient civilizations, such as the Egyptians, began using boats to transport goods and people across water bodies. From Christopher Columbus discovering the new world, the majestic Titanic and the demise on its maiden voyage, globalization allowing trade across the world, and maritime warfare, shipping has been filled with adventure, tragedy, and innovation, all of whic ..read more

By Steve Weiss, co-founder of Grey Heron, and long-time member of the Due Diligence Wolfpack* Capital is the fuel for building your business – and you can get it, just like you keep achieving milestones and adding partners. But fundraising is often harder, longer and more uncertain than you’d like – and you don’t want unnecessary missteps. So take it from a Wolf* – the ones hired to evaluate investments: here’s how to avoid common mistakes in fundraising, partnerships and messaging, that you can apply to your investor presentations, customer presentations and website. The Wolfpack in action ..read more

A decarbonization path for the LPG sector continues to increase in importance as a response to political forces which affect regulatory survivability and access to capital. Global North LPG marketers are responding to the lack of green LPG by getting involved in upstream green supply development. Global South countries are looking for ways to unlock international capital markets support for LPG sector expansion. The appeal of bioLPG is clear – what’s the path forward? Kimball Chen, Chairman of the Global LPG Partnership and Chairman of BIOLPG LLC took part in the 2024 Bioeconomy Policy Forum a ..read more

In China, 13 Chinese academic and industrial organisations met in Beijing, China to officially begin their involvement in the AgriLoop project. Over the next three years, they will work together with another 22 partners from across Europe to develop sustainable processes to convert agri-food residues into high-value products and accelerate the move to more sustainable, circular agriculture. This major international collaboration will find new uses for agri-residues -which account for around 50% of the fresh weight of harvested crops – as a currently underexploited resource for both Europe and ..read more

By Kent Goeking, Managing Director, LEC Partners Special to The Digest One of the key barriers to the economic and technical success of many advanced energy technologies is the sub-optimum performance of critical inorganic materials used as catalysts, electrodes, dielectrics, and photovoltaics.  Oxide materials in particular, such as metal oxides, perovskites, piezoelectrics, and ferroelectrics, offer significant promise of higher performance in these applications but require critical breakthroughs to overcome current inefficiencies. Traditionally, materials science research approaches a ..read more

The Bold Goals Action Group released the final text of the 40 Bold Actions to Accelerate at ABLC 2024, and they can be found here. The release capped a year-long, multi-national effort by bioeconomy stakeholders to define specific actions that must be accomplished by industry, financiers and government in order to reach ambitious Net Zero defossilization goals set by governments and corporations in recent years. More than 100 organizations, participated in two online meet-ups and live workshops in Sydney, San Francisco, Ottawa and New Delhi to develop the 40 Bold Actions unveiled in today’s re ..read more

In Oregon, the Global Hemp Innovation Center at Oregon State University has won a $10 million grant to develop hemp-based supply chains and equip students from 13 Native American tribes for bioeconomy jobs. The grant will be used to establish regional business networks, provide education opportunities for tribal communities, present hemp economic development opportunities to tribal decision-makers and determine manufacturing equipment and facilities needs for hemp-based materials and products. Siuslaw News reports that the project is funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Inst ..read more

In Ireland, the governments of the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland announced the opening of a new funding initiative to support the development of the all-island bioeconomy. The ‘Shared Island Bioeconomy Demonstration Initiative’ will pilot and demonstrate the bioeconomy in action across the island of Ireland, as a key objective of the Bioeconomy Action Plan 2023-2025. The bioeconomy encompasses sectors that conserve, use, process, distribute or consume biological resources from land and sea including agriculture, horticulture, forestry, food processing, construction, packaging, chemi ..read more

A decarbonization path for the LPG sector continues to increase in importance as a response to political forces which affect regulatory survivability and access to capital. Global North LPG marketers are responding to the lack of green LPG by getting involved in upstream green supply development. Global South countries are looking for ways to unlock international capital markets support for LPG sector expansion. The appeal of bioLPG is clear – what’s the path forward? Kimball Chen, Chairman of the Global LPG Partnership and Chairman of BIOLPG LLC took part in the 2024 Bioeconomy Policy Forum a ..read more