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Beyond Biofuel: Fighting Climate Change With “Best-Of-Breed”

Clean Technica: Nope, biofuel ain’t dead yet. A new global collaboration called below50 has just launched with the aim of prodding global companies to halve the carbon intensity of the transportation fuels they use, compared to conventional fossil fuel. The initiative includes a renewed emphasis on biofuel, along with any other top-of-the-line, non-fossil product that can get the job done, all embraced under the nameplate “low-carbon transportation fuels.”

EV fans may ask why electric vehicle technology doesn’t make the below50 cut, and that’s a fair question. Yesterday CleanTechnica got some answers from World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Chief Executive Officer Peter Bakker. Tomorrow we’ll also have some thoughts from Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of the next-next generation “biofuel” (to use that word loosely) company LanzaTech.

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