Biotechnology & climate changePerspectives on green climate technologies

Edwin BerendsProgram Manager DSM Bio-based Products & Services

The road to Durban: workshop on technology transfer and climate changeAmsterdam, De Balie14 November 2011

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Overview

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• DSM introduction• Global trend of Climate & Energy• Perspectives on biotechnology & climate change:

1. Feedstocks2. Processes3. Customers

• Outlook• Inspiration

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DSM’s mission

Our purpose is to create brighter lives forpeople today and generations to come.

We connect our unique competences inLife Sciences and Materials Sciences to createsolutions that nourish, protect and improveperformance.

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DSM in motion: driving focused growth

People - Planet - Profit: creating value along three dimensions

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Key activity areas

HealthAdvanced, cost-effective health and medicalinnovations, and healthier food and beverages, to meetthe needs of a growing and ageing global population

NutritionWorld’s leading producer of vitamins and nutritionalingredients meeting the growing need for morenutritious and more sustainable food and animal feed

MaterialsEnabling lighter, stronger, more advanced and moresustainable performance materials

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Global trend of Climate & Energy

Energy security &political stability

Climate change &environmental

awareness

Demand for energy& resources

Valorization of bio-based resources

Climate & Energy

• Government interestin energy security &price stability

• Governmentregulations onclimate change

• Environmentalawareness atconsumers increasing

• Growingconsumption due topopulation growthand economicdevelopment

• Fossil feedstocksfinite and moreexpensive to extract

• Diversification ofagriculture &forestry

• Job creation & ruraldevelopment

• Valorization ofresidues & wastestreams

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Fossil feedstocks:finite and more expensive to extract

1000 30002000

Oil

cons

umpt

ion

Living off the land Living off the landA brief

momentin history

The Oil Age will end long before we run out of oil

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First generation Second generation

Perspective 1: feedstocksMoving from 1st to 2nd generation

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Perspective 2: processesProduction of ZORf, an antibiotic intermediate

13 difficultchemical stepsreplaced by bio-process

65% less energyand materials

50% lower cost

DSM, ZORf plant (Delft, The Netherlands)

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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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Outlook:DSM in the transition from fossil to bio-based

Bio-energy2G Bio-ethanol

Bio-gasBio-diesel

Bio-based Chemicals& Materials

Bio-succinic acidBio-adìpic acid

• Solutions for global Climate & Energy needs• Highly attractive markets

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Inspiration:global partnering for the nutrition challenge

Combatingvitamin D

deficiency

Feeding theplanet

WFP partnership

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Can we change the course?

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Yes, we should – together!