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UPM joins the Renewable Carbon Initiative to change the foundation of chemical industry
HELSINKI (News release) -- UPM has joined the Renewable Carbon Initiative (RCI) which was founded in September 2020 by twelve leading companies in the chemical industry. The aim of the initiative is to support and speed up the transition from fossil carbon to renewable carbon for all organic chemicals and materials.

"This is about a fundamental change in the chemical industry. Just as the energy industry is converting to renewable sources, renewable carbon will become the new foundation of chemical and material industries in the future. We want to accelerate the change," says Michael Carus, CEO of nova-Institute in Germany and the head of the Renewable Carbon Initiative.

The Renewable Carbon Initiative addresses the core problem of climate change, which is largely related to extracting and using additional fossil carbon from the ground. The vision is stated clearly: By 2050, fossil carbon shall be completely substituted by renewable carbon, which is carbon from alternative sources: biomass, direct CO2 utilisation and recycling. The founding companies are convinced that this is the only way for chemicals, plastics and other organic materials to become more sustainable, more climate-friendly and part of the circular economy - part of the future.

"Renewable carbon from sustainable sources like woody biomass will accelerate the transformation of the chemical industry and offer brand owners and material producers exciting new opportunities for improving their environmental performance," says Michael Duetsch, Vice President, Biochemicals Business at UPM.

Along with UPM, the first pioneer companies to become a member of the RCI and to form the Core Advisory Board for the initiative include Beiersdorf (Germany), Cosun Beet Company (The Netherlands), Covestro (Germany), Henkel (Germany), LanzaTech (USA), Lenzing (Austria), Neste (Finland), SHV Energy (The Netherlands), Stahl (The Netherlands) and Unilever (UK).

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