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BSI publishes net zero blueprint for scaling industrial biotechnology sector

Cecilia Keating
Cecilia Keating
clock 30 March 2021 • 3 min read
Chemicals is one area where industrial biotechnology has major emissions reduction potential, according to report
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Chemicals is one area where industrial biotechnology has major emissions reduction potential, according to report

National standards body partners with government innovation agency InnovateUK and the Industrial Biotechnology Leadership Forum on major new report setting out full potential for bio feedstocks

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has this morning published a roadmap setting out how a number of UK's most emissions-intensive industrial sectors could move closer to net zero emissions by transitioning...

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