Renewable Carbon Initiative Outlines Support for Alternative Carbon Sources
Founded in 2020, the Renewable Carbon Initiative aims to support and speed up the transition from fossil carbon to renewable carbon for all organic chemicals and materials.
More than 30 leading pioneers of the chemical and material sector are welcoming the latest political papers from Brussels, Berlin, and Düsseldorf, Germany, according to recent news from the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI). Founded in September 2020 by 11 leading companies from six countries under the leadership of nova-Institute in Germany, the RCI aims to support and speed up the transition from fossil carbon to renewable carbon for all organic chemicals and materials.
The RCI is reporting that the political situation for renewable carbon from biomass, CO2, and recycling for the defossilization of the chemical and materials industry has begun to shift fundamentally in Europe. For the first time, important policy papers from Brussels and Germany acknowledge that the term decarbonization alone is not sufficient, and that there are important industrial sectors with a permanent and even growing carbon demand. The need for a sustainable solution to this carbon demand and the implementation of sustainable carbon cycles are finally being identified on the political stage, which RCI reports is fundamental to the creation of a sustainable chemical and derived materials industry.