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2020-10-29

Scaling Up the Bioeconomy in 2020

Jeff Passmore, CACOR Board of Directors, explains how biology can mitigate Climate Change and the results of the recently concluded 2020 Scaling Up conference.

Founded in 2016 “Scaling Up” addresses the full range of commercialization challenges faced by industrial bioeconomy start-ups.  Such challenges include growing beyond research and demonstration, partnerships and intellectual property protection, marketing, government policy, sustainability, feedstock assessment and procurement, securing a skilled management team, and, most importantly, raising both development capital and project financing.  Many medium sized companies which have successfully completed research, development and demonstration, fail at large scale steel-in-the-ground commercialization. Scaling Up presents business development solutions, and suggests government policy and program initiatives, that can help avoid such failure to ensure Canada both develops new tools to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and stays competitive with the rest of the world in this fast growing biobased revolution.

The industrial bioeconomy comprises renewable fuels such as ethanol, renewable diesel, and biojet, renewable energy for heat and electricity, and bio-based chemicals for the production of a host of bioproducts and materials. Almost everything in our economy that is currently produced using hydrocarbons could instead be produced from carbohydrates.

With 10% of the world’s forests, tens of millions of acres of agriculture land, and tonnes of municipal waste, there is an opportunity for Canada to be at the innovative leading edge of the bio-based, low carbon economy. Scaling Up will launch us on that path.

All 2020 links listed…

 

This format list may be easier for some to navigate:

Scaling Up on YouTube

Sept. 8:

https://youtu.be/s56IqFHI70s

Sept. 15

https://youtu.be/JW2HAI1qMs4

Sept. 22

https://youtu.be/xxpFsai6vTk

Sept/ 29

https://youtu.be/NcIbPDeL23Q

Oct 6:

https://youtu.be/CBf_yPXV-fk

Oct 13:

https://youtu.be/0ypqm-5KNg0

Oct 20:

https://youtu.be/O5tmo3LGqEw

October 27

https://youtu.be/1FUDmWFK0W0

 

Article posted by Art Hunter / Articles, CACOR Writers / Adaptability, Bio-Technology, Bioeconomy, Energy, global warming, Greenhouse gas, mitigation, Science, Sustainability, technology Leave a Comment

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