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COP16 Dispatch: Week 2 On the Path to Peace with Nature: Wins and Challenges from COP16 Outcomes

ESA

This fund requires large companies—particularly those in pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and agriculture—to contribute a percentage of their profits from DSI, directing resources back to developing countries and Indigenous communities. As we look toward 2030, COP16’s outcomes provide a foundation, but the true test lies in action.

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One Big Beautiful Bill Act: Nutrition Title

National Law Center

is equal to or above 20 percent, the implementation date will be fiscal year 2030. If a state’s 2025 payment error rate multiplied by 1.5 is equal to or above 20 percent, then the cost-share requirements will not go into effect until fiscal year 2029. If the state’s payment error rate for 2026 multiplied by 1.5

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White House OSTP Outlines Goals for U.S. Biotechnology and Manufacturing

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Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing: Harnessing Research and Development to Further Societal Goals. Hutton As reported in our March 30, 2023, blog item , on March 22, 2023, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a new report, Bold Goals for U.S. The report states that bold goals for the U.S.

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12 exotic bacteria found to passively collect rare earth elements from wastewater

Frontiers

Because they are indispensable in modern technology such as light emitting diodes, mobile phones, electromotors, wind turbines , hard disks, cameras, magnets, and low-energy lightbulbs, the demand for them has increased steadily over the past few decades, and is predicted to rise further by 2030.

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DOE Issues RFI On Renewable Fuel Scale-Up And Demonstration

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The RFI has six categories: Biofuel Pathway Scale-Up Forecasts; Barriers to Scale-Up of SAF, Marine, and Renewable Diesel Technologies; Leveraging First-Generation Ethanol and Other Incumbent Industries; BETO Scale-Up of Biotechnologies Strategy; Leveraging National Laboratory Professional Development Units (PDU) to Scale-Up Renewable Fuels; and.

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GAO Science and Tech Spotlight Describes Benefits of Synthetic Biology and Challenges Ahead

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GAO defines synthetic biology as “a multidisciplinary field of biotechnology that involves engineering the genetic material of organisms -- such as viruses, bacteria, yeast, plants, or animals -- to have new characteristics.” Opportunities include: Widely adaptable.

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DOE Announces Funding Focused On Reducing Aviation And Shipping Sector Emissions

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The memorandum formalizes the DOE, DOT, and USDA’s collaborative efforts on the required research, development, and demonstration (RD&D) to reach the goals of supplying at least three billion gallons of SAF per year by 2030 and sufficient SAF to meet 100 percent of aviation fuel demand by 2050. Renewable Natural Gas.