A World Without Palm Oil

A conversation with Lars Langhout, Founder and CEO at NoPalm Ingredients Palm oil production is one of the biggest sustainability challenges we face today. Deforestation at catastrophic levels, water use, land use, species loss, biodiversity loss and top soil degradation are all common in the industry. But NoPalm Ingredients may just have the solution: a fermented microbial oil made from … Read More

Carbon Clean on track to enable the capture of 1 billion tonnes of CO2 through its cost-effective solutions for industrial carbon emitters

Chevron announced a new investment in Carbon Clean, just days before the publication of the second instalment of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report. 10th March 2022, The Netherlands Carbon Clean doesn’t shy away from a big goal; it is targeting the removal of 1 billion tonnes of CO2 through its cost-efficient carbon capture solutions. … Read More

Veolia Carbon Clean joint venture announces carbon capture milestone

Veolia Carbon Clean – a joint venture between Carbon Clean, a leader in cost-effective carbon capture solutions, and Veolia, the global leader for optimised resource management – is celebrating its first project milestone and revealing a new corporate identity. Read further

Sustainability, health and allergen answers could be lying in a chickpea

The chickpea is a simple and humble legume. But in the past years, we’ve seen it transformed into products like chips, frosting for cakes and much more. In Israel, a country where the chickpea reigns supreme in dishes like hummus and falafel, Innovopro is taking the chickpea to a whole new level. They call it the chickpea revolution and have … Read More

Icos Invests in NoPalm

Ede, Netherlands; January 18 – NoPalm Ingredients, a BioTech Start-up making sidestream-based microbial oil to replace palm oil as an ingredient in food, cosmetics and detergents, announced today it has raised € 1M in a first funding round. Green Creators, Future Food Fund and ICOS Capital have joined the round as well as a group of angel investors. NoPalm Ingredients … Read More

Staying immune fit: how to train the body’s defence system

The immune system is the body’s surveillance system that responds to infections. It’s our defence against the various challenges that we encounter every day, most of which are fought off without notice, reports Ruud Albers, CSO, NutriLeads… read further