Greens embrace enzymes in climate change fight

by Fabian on 01/23/2010

in Climate Change,News and Resources,Sustainability

This is an interesting article I thought I would share with everyone here:

Industrial biotechnology is gaining supporters among environmentalists as a way to make significant cuts in greenhouse-gas emissions and eventually move to a society free from fossil fuels. The lofty idea behind industrial, or white, biotechnology is to use nature’s own ingredients to solve industrial problems. White biotech industries use enzymes - proteins that speed up chemical reactions - for various applications to increase efficiency of energy and raw-material use and eventually replace fossil fuels.

Read more (EurActiv)

Source: CSR Europe

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