Perspectives on green climate technologies, focusing on biotechnology. Presented at the workshop "The road to Durban: workshop on technology transfer and climate change" on 14 November 2011 in \'De Balie\' in Amsterdam.

1. Biotechnology & climate change
Perspectives on green climate technologies
Edwin Berends
Program Manager DSM Bio-based Products & Services
The road to Durban: workshop on technology transfer and climate change
Amsterdam, De Balie
14 November 2011

2. Overview
• DSM introduction
• Global trend of Climate & Energy
• Perspectives on biotechnology & climate change:
1. Feedstocks
2. Processes
3. Customers
• Outlook
• Inspiration
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3. DSM’s mission
Our purpose is to create brighter lives for
people today and generations to come.
We connect our unique competences in
Life Sciences and Materials Sciences to create
solutions that nourish, protect and improve
performance.
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4. DSM in motion: driving focused growth
People - Planet - Profit: creating value along three dimensions
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5. Key activity areas
Health
Advanced, cost-effective health and medical
innovations, and healthier food and beverages, to meet
the needs of a growing and ageing global population
Nutrition
World’s leading producer of vitamins and nutritional
ingredients meeting the growing need for more
nutritious and more sustainable food and animal feed
Materials
Enabling lighter, stronger, more advanced and more
sustainable performance materials
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6. Global trend of Climate & Energy
Climate & Energy
Demand for energy Energy security & Climate change & Valorization of bio-
& resources political stability environmental based resources
awareness
• Growing • Government interest • Government • Diversification of
consumption due to in energy security & regulations on agriculture &
population growth price stability climate change forestry
and economic • Environmental • Job creation & rural
development awareness at development
• Fossil feedstocks consumers increasing • Valorization of
finite and more residues & waste
expensive to extract streams
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7. Fossil feedstocks:
finite and more expensive to extract
Oil consumption
1000 2000 3000
A brief
Living off the land moment Living off the land
in history
The Oil Age will end long before we run out of oil
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8. Perspective 1: feedstocks
Moving from 1st to 2nd generation
First generation Second generation
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9. Perspective 2: processes
Production of ZORf, an antibiotic intermediate
13 difficult
chemical steps
replaced by bio-
process
65% less energy
and materials
50% lower cost
DSM, ZORf plant (Delft, The Netherlands)
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10. Perspective 3:
improving carbon footprint in the value chain
Brewers ClarexTM: innovative concept for beer stabilization
• Efficiently stabilizes beer providing longer colloidal shelf life
• Maintains quality and natural antioxidant potential of beer
• Provides substantial savings due to limited capital and operating
expenditures
• Simplifies brewing process significantly
• Replaces chemical stabilizers by natural products
• Environmentally friendly
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11. Outlook:
DSM in the transition from fossil to bio-based
Bio-energy
2G Bio-ethanol
Bio-gas
Bio-diesel
Bio-based Chemicals
• Solutions for global Climate & Energy needs & Materials
• Highly attractive markets Bio-succinic acid
Bio-adìpic acid
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12. Inspiration:
global partnering for the nutrition challenge
Combating
vitamin D
deficiency
Feeding the
planet
WFP partnership
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13. Can we change the course?
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14. Yes, we should – together!
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