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September 18, 2024 Today, Frontier, the advance market commitment for carbon removal, announced that it selected Flux as part of its 2024 prepurchase cycle. Flux removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using Enhanced Rock Weathering in Africa. Frontier was founded by Stripe, Alphabet, Shopify, Meta, and McKinsey Sustainability, and members have committed to purchase over …
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Douala, Cameroon – In a significant move to scale permanent carbon dioxide removal in Africa, Flux, a pioneer in Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW), and African Food Security, an agricultural development company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to implement a large-scale ERW project in Cameroon. This collaborative effort has the potential to permanently remove …
After an “extraordinarily competitive selection process”, Milkywire has selected Flux among 13 new carbon dioxide removal (CDR) suppliers for the Climate Transformation Fund. Flux’s mission is to unlock the potential of Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW) in Africa to capture carbon and help farmers restore their soils. This commitment signifies a huge milestone for the industry …
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In a groundbreaking move for the African continent, Kenya’s BURN has successfully sold the first-ever carbon credit futures tied to emissions reductions achieved through the deployment of efficient cook-stoves. The company, renowned for manufacturing and distributing over four million environmentally friendly cook-stoves across Africa, marked this significant milestone by selling 10,000 forward contracts at $25 …
Africa’s first carbon credit futures based on emissions reductions related to the use of efficient cook-stoves have been sold by Kenya’s BURN. The company sold 10,000 forward contracts at $25 each and 50,000 call options, which can be exercised at the same price during the next seven years, over CYNK, a Nairobi-based platform, the two companies said …
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CYNK, KenGrow and UNCCD join new climate-smart agriculture project to empower female farmers Together KenGrow, Flux, Hiveonline and CYNK will deliver digital infrastructure alongside new regenerative agriculture techniques to increase climate finance inclusion for Kenyan women in rural communities. Dubai, December 2023. CYNK, a leading climate finance platform founded in Nairobi, Kenya, announces a …
Bloomberg CYNK, a Nairobi-based platform set up initially to trade carbon credit futures, has partnered with a United Nations agency to explore selling biodiversity credit futures based on some of the world’s most most famed nature areas. The platform will work on a pilot project with US-based Regenerative Resources to forward sell the credits from a project …
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Together KenGrow, Flux, Hiveonline and CYNK will deliver digital infrastructure alongside new regenerative agriculture techniques to increase climate finance inclusion for Kenyan women in rural communities. watch the full video here
Cynk, a verifiable emissions reduction platform operating across Africa, aims to uses apublic decentralised ledger to track emission-reductions. It has already enabled a carbonfutures transaction of more than two million-credits for Tamuwa, Kenya’s leading renewablebiomass fuels producer, 88 and aims to operate across other use cases including nature-basedsolutions, blue carbon, regenerative agriculture, direct carbon capture, …
CYNK, a Kenya-based carbon offsets trading platform, said on Tuesday it had handled a carbon futures trade of more than 2 million credits, its CEO said. CYNK, which said it is the first carbon offsets exchange in Africa, did not provide details on who the beneficiaries were. “This trade of over 2 million forward carbon …
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Africa’s first verifiable emissions reduction platform has begun operations with a carbon futures transaction of more than two million credits, a continental record. Nairobi-based CYNK traded the credits, which will be produced by Tamuwa, Kenya’s largest biomass company, it said in a response to questions. This “showcases the potential for climate projects and sovereign nations in …
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The Johannesburg-based company has started a market for carbon credits and renewable-energy certificates with Xpansiv Ltd., which provides infrastructure to trade what it terms environmental commodities, it said on Thursday. Read more here.
Africa’s first climate summit drew towards a close this morning. Two dozen heads of state from the continent called on the international community to phase down coal use, abolish fossil fuel subsidies, honour climate finance commitments and create a “new financing architecture more responsive to Africa’s needs”, including debt restructuring and relief. The so-called “Nairobi Declaration” will …
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Africa’s first verifiable emissions reduction platform, which uses a public decentralized ledger to track emission reductions, will start trading its first tokens this quarter. The platform, known as CYNK, will use the Hedera Hashgraph ledger, and trade tokens generated by Tamuwa, Kenya’s largest biomass company. It is also in talks to trade emissions reductions credits from a company …
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Tamuwa, Kenya’s largest biomass company, is starting Africa’s first verifiable emissions reduction platform in a bid to benefit its own projects and those of other companies in the region that cut the production of climate-warming gases. The platform, to be known as CYNK, will use the Hedera Hashgraph public decentralized ledger to track emission reductions, enabling them …
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Singapore-based agri-processing company, Tamu, pioneers innovative and customised solutions through the use of sustainable and renewable resources Tamu Group has become the first company to join Food Industry Asia under its newly-launched membership targeting innovative SMEs and start-ups. Headquartered in the Lion City, Tamu is an agri-processing company that produces healthy functional food ingredients and …
The food system is broken, did you know it? In the past years tailored diets helped niche markets to live healthier, but today we all need a personalized nutrition, ideally enriched with microbiome’s solutions. The challenge is huge, a change is urgent: intolerances and allergies are creating troubles to a growing number of people worldwide. …
Yesterday James Bullen wrote a troubleshooting article about fibre on ABC News. It started with a question: “Have you been straining, huffing and puffing when you visit the toilet lately?” Here’s the answer. If you’re finding it difficult to do a poo, your bowel movements aren’t at regular intervals or you’re feeling really bloated, it …
“Let them eat cake” is the most famous quote attributed to Marie Antoinette, the queen of France during the French Revolution. As the story goes, it was the queen’s response upon being told that her starving peasant subjects had no bread. Because cake is more expensive than bread, the anecdote has been cited as an …
Let food be thy medicine. Singapore cultivated Hippocrates’quote and is building a unique innovation ecosystem to find solutions for the food and nutrition’s latest issues. The economic development of ASEAN countries is creating a shifting consumer population, with increasing prevalence of diabetes, obesity and age related health issues, and greater demand for healthier, more nutritious …
Two members of our leadership team, Dr. Jonathan Middis and Sally May Tan were invited to a closed-door event organised by Founder of JUST FOR ALL, Josh Tetrick, held at the Singapore Food Innovation & Resource Centre for an up close and personal experience.
In the Food Industry Asia’s Summit held in Singapore in April 2018, the impressive line-up of innovators changing the way food for the future is redefined.
Tamu is proud to launch our flagship functional food ingredient, Five10Fibre™ at the prestigious Food Industry Asia Summit held at the Grand Hyatt Singapore on 26 April 2018 as one of the few selected food innovators at the event showcase.
Dr Jonathan Middis, Chief Technology Officer of Tamu Innovations, was interviewed live on 25 April 2018 on the Health Matters segment of the Channel News Asia morning programme, First Look Asia.
We know that dietary fibre is good for our health. It is a special type of carbohydrate that plays a huge role for our digestive health. Dietary fibre cannot be digested by our body’s enzymes…
Tamu Innovations is a functional food company dedicated to rethinking the value proposition of agricultural waste, specifically sugar cane. Their focus is on the optimal use of the whole food.