Not so long ago you had to wash at 60 degrees Celsius the least, if you wanted your clothes to be clean, but today you can put your laundry machine to 30 degrees and achieve the same thing. This thanks to washing powder with enzymes developed in biotechnology.
This is just an example of how the so-called ”white biotechnology” – or industrial biotechnology – can help reduce energy consumption and thus global warming.
According to a report by the Danish branch of the global conservation organization WWF, white biotechnology has the potential to reduce the world’s carbon dioxide emissions by between 1 and 2.5 billion tonnes per year by 2030. This is equivalent to more than Germany’s total emissions in the Kyoto baseline year, 1990.
”Low carbon biotech solutions are a good example of hidden or invisible climate solutions that are all around us already today but are easy to overlook for policymakers, investors and companies,” says John Kornerup Bang, head of globalization program at WWF Denmark.
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