Problem-free palm oil
Shara Ticku, C16 Biosciences CEO and Co-founder
We're enabling consumers to buy the products they love without contributing to climate change.
- C16 Biosciences combine nature and biotechnology to produce a clean oil that can be used in place of palm oil or other vegetable oils. They use fermentation – the same process used to make beer, cheese and bread – along with the latest technology to improve a yeast that produces oil.
- Palm oil is in about half of the packaged products on supermarket shelvesÌýfrom Nutella to soap, and demand could triple by 2050 as the population increases1. However, its production is contributing to habitat destruction and deforestation, which is responsible for billions of tons of CO2 each year2,3.
- C16 say their technology could reduce the greenhouse gas footprint of oil production by up to 73% and clean up supply chains to avoid human rights violations that occur on many plantations.
- They already have investment from Bill Gates's Breakthrough Energy Ventures, and grants from MIT, Harvard University, and the US Department of Energy.
- C16 were runners-up in the Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Award and received a $25,000 grant4.
C16 Biosciences work towards these UN Sustainable Development Goals:
C16 Biosciences work towards these UN Sustainable Development Goals:
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