Acelen Renewables to launch Seed-to-Fuel initiative

Acelen Renewables, a newly established environmental initiative launched by global asset management firm Mubadala Capital, is to launch what it terms its ‘visionary blueprint for the future of low-carbon energy’ at the COP28 summit. The Seed-to-Fuel project (which is described as a ‘fully sustainable plant-based initiative’) is the first biological fuel from a native Brazilian seed, macaúba, which will be combined with other raw materials to create sustainable aviation fuel and renewable diesel. With an investment of more than R$12 billion (USD $2.5 billion), the project claims the potential to capture up to 60 million tons of C02 from the