New Grant Will Further Research to Identify and Generate Biomass in California’s North San Joaquin Valley
By Ruchi Shahagadkar
The Virtual Institute on Feedstocks of the Future, a collaboration between Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research and Schmidt Sciences, has awarded funding grants to five projects focusing on developing solutions to advance circular bio-economies with biomass feedstocks across the country. Projects based in California, Idaho, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Wisconsin will receive up to $47.3 million in funding to work toward a bio-economic model that is powered by renewable energy and minimizes waste generation.
Related Knowledge Center: Climate diplomacy
Talks are well underway in preparation for the next major international meeting on climate change, 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28), scheduled to begin Nov. 30 in the United Arab Emirates.
Much like last year’s COP27, finances — specifically, aid to developing nations — will be at the center of conference deliberations.
The conference faces an even greater sense of urgency brought on by the Sept. 8, 2023, release of the first global stocktake, which calls for accelerated action to meet the goals set in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement (COP21).
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