Event report
producing animal-free collagen and gelatin in the laboratory, presented to the Networking Days event the first sample of sustainably grown animal-free collagen to ever be seen outside a laboratory. As key ingredients for the pharmaceutical, bio- medical and the food industry, the market is worth USD 8.4 billion annually and is currently solely reliant on animal by- products. To rapturous applause Michelsen told delegates that cellular agriculture has the potential to eliminate all the environmental damage caused by rearing livestock. “Collagen and gelatin are just the starting point for us, there are so many other exciting proteins from animals and nature that we can now grow in a lab,” she told delegates. Jellatech is currently fundraising to move the technology from laboratory to a pilot and beyond. Clara Rowe, CEO of Restor, a non-profit start-up that uses satellite imagery to monitor restoration projects globally, pointed to three statistics that outline the climate contribution potential of restoration. “Forest restoration alone is estimated to be able to prevent up to 60% of species extinction that are expected today, to improve food security for over a billion people around the world and to be able to sequester about 299 gigatons of carbon, that is about 30% of the carbon that has accumulated in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution,” said Rowe. By providing greater transparency to restoration projects Rowe argues Restor has the potential to build trust and accountability, inspiring additional investment. Dr.
Christoph Gebald, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of
Climeworks, described how his company is removing CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently storing it in the ground to help reverse climate change. Launched 13 years ago, Climeworks now operates the world’s largest plant capturing CO2 from the atmosphere built in Iceland. “This technology is here to stay and in 30 years from now this industry will be very big, it will be removing CO2 on a gigaton level from the atmosphere, and it will operate synergistically with other climate change technologies like solar and wind,” explained Gebald.
Leading by example
In a move to help achieve its own climate change targets to have solutions ready to multiply that reduce energy, waste, and water by 50% in the value chains of its customers by 2025, Bühler announced that it had assessed the impact of its different processing solutions, on waste, energy, and water consumption, land use and CO2e footprint, along with assessments of how the technological advances impact on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the benefits for circular economy. “By evaluating the impact of our solutions, we can then start tracking their overall cumulative impact,” said Ian Roberts, Bühler CTO. An important contribution is optimisation of the industry’s installed asset base and Bühler is learning to monitor the reduction in CO2e footprint resulting from services at its customers’ sites. So far, 30,000 tons of accumulative CO2e reduction have been calculated across only 11 of the Bühler services in customer processes. “We are going to expand that calculation across the whole service portfolio to better understand the impact we can bring together on that CO2e footprint and then verify the calculation as we build better data sets,” said Roberts. Bühler is also using new technological solutions to track avoided CO2e emissions. Roberts told delegates that Bühler is now able to provide a service by working with customers to quantify their CO2e footprint. “We can do product assessments and look at where the processing hot spots are and build action plans to drop your CO2e footprint and we can have it externally certified,” he explained. Holger Feldhege, Bühler’s COO, addressed the audience and explained Bühler’s global internal CO2-reduction targets, and how the defined actions will be implemented in Bühler’s operations through a global program which will be implemented starting now until 2030.
BELOW: About 1,000 representatives of the world’s leading companies from 95 countries gathered in Uzwil, Switzerland, to discuss the urgent need for business to accelerate the transition toward sustainability.
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