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UPM Raflatac continues its collaboration with WWF Poland on circular economy and privately protected areas

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UPM Raflatac and WWF Poland have renewed their contract to build a smarter future beyond fossils together. During the new three-year contract period the collaboration will focus on enabling the development of circular economy and promoting privately protected areas, especially wetlands in Poland. The three-year contract will also involve UPM Raflatac’s internal and external stakeholders to increase engagement and support for these two important initiatives given the challenges we are facing today.

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EIT opened its call to build a new sustainable innovation partnership to strengthen Europe’s water, marine and maritime sectors

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The European Institute of Innovation & Technology (EIT) opened its call to build a new sustainable innovation partnership to strengthen Europe’s water, marine and maritime sectors and ecosystems. The Call for Proposals invites consortia of  organisations and industry leaders bringing together water-related education, research and business to put forward their vision and strategy for EIT Water. The EIT is an integral part of Horizon Europe, the EU’s research and innovation framework programme. 

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BIC’s Report: Hungary provides untapped opportunities for Europe’s bio-based sector and green growth

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Coinciding with the Hungarian Presidency of the Council and following on from their European Union conference, “BIOEAST and Beyond: Partnering for the Future”, the Bio-based Industries Consortium (BIC), published “Mapping Hungary’s bio-based potential”, highlighting the many untapped green commercial opportunities in the country. 

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Happy New Year!

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Dear Readers,

we want to wish all of you a very happy, peaceful and healthy year, where we all will keep working together to make the circular bioeconomy happen.

Aramco, TotalEnergies and Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC) assess the development of a sustainable aviation fuels unit

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Aramco, TotalEnergies, and Saudi Investment Recycling Company (SIRC), the major player which collects and valorizes organic materials into sustainable products in Saudi Arabia, signed a Joint Development and Cost Sharing Agreement (JDCSA) to assess the development of a sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) production unit in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. This signature was done on the occasion of the visit of the President of the French Republic Emmanuel Macron to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and in the presence of His Royal Highness Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, Saudi Minister of Energy,

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Metsä Group will introduce nature compensation in its environmental deviations

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Metsä Group introduces voluntary nature compensation measures in its environmental deviations. Part of regenerative forestry, nature compensation overcompensates the harm to nature resulting from any legal violations. The operating model ensures that corrective measures linked to defective performance result in greater benefit than harm to nature. Nature compensation will be applied in matters related to the Nature Conservation Act and the Forest Act – key legislation in terms of biodiversity.

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The Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEO 2024 is Frederic Van Gansberghe, CEO of Futerro

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Our readers have voted. The most innovative bioeconomy CEO 2024 is Frederic Van Gansberghe, CEO of Futerro, a a pioneer and world leader in bioplastics with the development and production of Poly-Lactic Acid (PLA, also called FUTERRO RENEW®). PLA is a well-recognized biopolymer able to replace a large number of traditional petro-based plastic used in several applications.

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The 10 Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEOs 2024. Now choose the number 1

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“Bioeconomy in everyday life” @ BioBased World 2015 in Frankfurt am Main

The circular bioeconomy is innovation, the result of the skills and passion of researchers and managers able to create value and new high-qualified jobs, reconciling economy, society and the environment. At the end of 2014 Il Bioeconomista launched a new initiative: The 10 Most Innovative Bioeconomy CEOs.

We have asked a panel of world bioeconomy experts to tell us the Chief Executive Officers that have stood out as the most innovative during the last year.

Now we ask you to choose the most innovative CEO responding to our survey (open till December 13 at 7 am, Central Europe Time).

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UPM Raflatac accelerates its actions to deliver a circular packaging industry and a future beyond fossils

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UPM Raflatac has made further progress towards a more circular economy for plastics and a future beyond fossils during 2023. The progress towards the 2025 commitments is detailed in the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment 2024 Progress Report by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). UPM Raflatac joined the Global Commitment as the first label materials company in October 2018.

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UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres: “The end of the fossil fuel age is an economic inevitability”

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The COP29 closing statement of UN Secretary-General António Guterres. COP29 comes at the close of a brutal year – a year seared by record temperatures, and scarred by climate disaster, all as emissions continue to rise. Finance has been priority number one. Developing countries swamped by debt, pummelled by disasters, and left behind in the renewables revolution, are in desperate need of funds.

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