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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Enilive begins SAF production at its plant in Gela (Sicily), capable of meeting one third of Europe’s demand

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Enilive commissioned its first plant to produce Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) at the Gela biorefinery, in Sicily. Production has started at the plant, which has a capacity of 400,000 tonnes per year, representing almost a third of the expected European SAF demand in 2025 (Source: Wood Mackanzie), following the implementation of the ReFuelEU Aviation regulation.

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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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Neste MY Renewable Diesel introduced to the Italian market in collaboration with fuel distributor Firmin

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Neste is partnering with the Italian fuel distributor Firmin to make Neste MY Renewable Diesel available for the first time in Italy to contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gas emission in the transport sector. Neste MY Renewable Diesel (also known as HVO100) is available in Italy from the beginning of January, 2025. 

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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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Neste and Bayer to collaborate on developing novel vegetable oils from regenerative agriculture concepts

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Neste and Bayer, a global enterprise with core competencies in the life science fields of health care and agriculture, signed a memorandum of understanding aimed at developing a winter canola ecosystem in the U.S, including identifying partners and developing the value chain together, and scaling winter canola production as a raw material for renewable products. 

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The US DOE committed up to $200 million in federal funding to Technip Energies and LanzaTech for commercializing breakthrough CO2 to Ethylene Technology

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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED) has committed up to $200 million in federal funding and authorized the initiation of Phase 1 of Technip Energies and LanzaTech Global’s Sustainable Ethylene from CO2 Utilization with Renewable Energy Project.

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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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