UQ's Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN) brings to the table its expertise in bioplastic production and characterization.Paul Greenfield, the Senior Deputy Vice-Chancellor of UQ, expects to see a shift in the $ 2000 billion
global chemical industry from the current reliance on petroleum to one on biomass within the next few decades.
Not exact matches
The Institute will spur significant advances in software infrastructure, education, standards, and best - practices that are needed to enable the molecular science community to open new windows on the next generation of scientific Grand Challenges, ranging
from the simulation of intrinsically disordered proteins associated with a range of diseases to the design of new catalysts vital to the
global chemical industry and climate change.
The fine balance of
chemicals in our air and seas has been disrupted with dangerous consequences — our carbon emissions are driving
global warming and ocean acidification, while excesses of nitrogen and phospohorous
from industry and agriculture are turning parts of the sea into dead zones.
From The Guardian: «The connection to the
chemical firm Solvay suggests opposition to action on
global warming, once spearheaded by big oil, is spreading to other
industries that will also be affected by proposals to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases.»
We continually cut trees, throwing garbage any where we want,
chemical waste
from different
industries are thrown in the bodies of water, smoke coming
from cars, factories and even at home are not properly handled, there's still a lot of problems that we can address to each and every one but if we will not move or take any action in response to this issue our planet would die little by little, as we see earth today is now showing to us the damage we had made such as earth quake, landslide, acid rain,
global warming and a lot more.