(Sustainable Plant) Renewable chemicals company Amyris, Inc. has joined the Bonsucro sugarcane sustainability standard. Amyris is the first advanced biofuels and chemicals company of its kind to join Bonsucro, paving the way for certification of Amyris’s renewable products.
Bonsucro is a global multi-stakeholder, non-profit initiative focused on improving the social, environmental and economic sustainability of the production of sugarcane. The Bonsucro Production Standard is used to certify – and assures buyers, suppliers and consumers that sugarcane-derived products meet – key sustainability indicators, such as energy consumption, greenhouse gas emissions and water consumption.
“With our certification system recognized under the European Commission’s Renewable Energy Directive and the 26 Bonsucro-certified sugarcane mills in Brazil, Bonsucro-certified volumes are set to grow,” said Nick Goodall, Bonsucro CEO. “We welcome Amyris’s leadership to broaden the scope of second-generation renewable products that could be certified under Bonsucro.” READ MORE includes VIDEO and MORE (Amyris)