Leading Indian consumer goods company Hindustan Unilever Limited (HUL) has replaced coal use in its operations with biomass and biodiesel, the company announced on 2 December.

Global agribusiness giant Cargill has committed its complete edible oils portfolio to the World Health Organization’s (WHO’s) best practice on industrially-produced trans-fatty acids (iTFAs), the company announced on 6 December.

A research team from Portugal and Spain has shown that compounds from olive oil waste could be used in cosmetic products.

Multinational oil and gas firm ExxonMobil has teamed up with privately-held biotechnology firm Viridos – previously known as Synthetic Genomics – to produce biofuel from algae, Viridos announced on 19 November.

Leading UK supermarket Morrisons is set to reduce the use of soya feed at 10 of its free range egg farms by switching the animals to an insect-based diet, Morrisons reported on 1 December.

The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) has published new data showing an upward trend in the uptake of RSPO-certified sustainable palm oil (CSPO).

Marine inspection and certification multinational RINA has been working with a consortium of other companies to deliver a hydrogen fuel to meet International Maritime Organization (IMO) 2050 standards, RIVA announced on 25 November.

The aviation sector’s move towards the use of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) is gaining momentum as airlines, in conjunction with the UN climate change conference (COP26), take more steps to meet the new goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, according to a Freight Waves report on 12 November.

Swedish food-tech company Mycorena has developed a fungi-based ingredient that mimics animal fats, the company announced on 11 November.

Scientists with the United State Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) chief scientific in-house research agency – the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) – have improved the method of producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from soyabean oil, the ARS announced on 22 November.

US soyabean processing cooperative AGP is expanding crushing capacity at its Sergeant Bluff facility in Iowa, AGP announced on 19 November.

The Energy Policy Administration Committee (EPAC) in Thailand has dropped B10 and B20 biodiesel – diesel fuel containing 10% and 20% biodiesel respectively – in the country due to high palm oil prices with only B7 available until next March, the Pattaya Mail reported on 26 November.

Palm oil producer Brazil Biofuels (BBF) has teamed up with fuel distributor Vibra Energia on the construction of the country’s first hydro-treated vegetable oil (HVO) plant, according to local media reports AgriCensus wrote.