Bayer CropScience today renewed its commitment to working in strong collaborations with partners from governments, the industry and non-governmental organizations to help enhance global food security and economic development. “Innovation and partnerships are needed to achieve food security,” said Bayer CropScience CEO Liam Condon at a high-level press conference with Dirk Niebel, Germany’ Minister for Economic Cooperation and Development, and Bill Gates, Co-Chair and Trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in Berlin, Germany.
Energy and environmental issues continue to be significant concerns for the shipping industry, especially as they relate to efficiency and overall cost savings in transportation containers for ships and trucks. Industry stakeholders have an increasing interest in evaluating and understanding how replacing conventional wood floors with composite materials can impact the overall life cycle of the containers, contributing to energy savings and reduced greenhouse gases (GHGs).
Finding alternative ways of supplying chemicals for fuels and industrial use is one of the key challenges facing the industrial biotechnology industry today. Dwindling supplies and growing demand for fossil based resources, plus geopolitical uncertainty and the threat of climate change provide a vivid backdrop.
Most of the existing controlled landfills in Spain comply the environmental legislation regarding the location distance they have to keep from protected areas such as Sites of Community Importance (SCI), Special Protection Area for Birds (SPA) and even from surface water bodies.
Bayer CropScience is committed to help raise the agricultural productivity in Africa, and plans to extend its operational footprint in the continent, said Christian Asboth, Senior Vice President for Africa, Middle East and CIS, at the 2nd AGCO Africa Summit in Berlin, Germany.
Genomatica today announced the results of the 2012 reader's survey that it conducted with ICIS, the world's largest petrochemical market information provider (see slides with results, article with detailed discussion).
The time is now for a Greener Revolution in Agriculture, to increase the productivity of farming in a more sustainable and environmentally compatible way, said Bayer CropScience’s new CEO Liam Condon in his keynote address at the Global Forum for Food and Agriculture (GFFA) in Berlin today.
Fusion for Energy (F4E), the organisation managing Europe’s contribution to ITER, celebrates a landmark achievement with the signature of one of its largest contracts in the area of the civil engineering works for the construction of the Tokamak complex, the building that will host the ITER Tokamak machine. Other buildings and amenities surrounding the Tokamak complex will also be delivered through this contract.
Fashionable people may turn up their noses at jute — the cheap fiber used to make burlap, gunny sacks, twine and other common products — but new research is enhancing jute's appeal as an inexpensive, sustainable reinforcement for mortar and concrete. The study appears in ACS' journal Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research.
The transition from fossil fuels to sustainable and regenerative energy concepts is a challenge that sooner or later all industrial nations will be facing. Mastering this difficult task will require new technologies. Currently the green-energy industries in both Germany and Canada have a globally recognised leadership role.
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