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NOVOZYMES CEO CALLS FOR ACTION
Jan. 7, 2010 | Topic: Business conditionsManaging director of Novozymes, Steen Riisgaard, encourages the Danish government to take action after the recently held COP15. Riisgaard points to the fact that, though it is extremely important to consider new groundbreaking technology that can help save the climate, we also need to concentrate on what we can do now.
“It is important to look at solutions, both in short and long term perspectives. What is needed right now, is to support the Danish companies, which already have solutions, instead of waiting for another immature technology to emerge next week – or in 20 years,” says Steen Riisgaard to Politiken.
Steen Riisgaard emphasizes that this does not mean that there is no room for visionary ideas or funding for research within the field of new technology, which he also states is in the interest of Novozymes.
Riisgaard urges strongly that the subsidy scheme of green technologies becomes more transparent, which will allow the market forces to determine the green technologies of tomorrow.
“A more transparent subsidy scheme and a political decision in regard to which technologies, Denmark should focus on, will decide tomorrow’s energies of sustainable and fossil energy.”
He uses Sweden as an example. – Sweden has during a short time period introduced E85-petrol, which contains 85 percent of bioethanol. This shift has resulted in every third car sold today is a flexifuel-car, which places considerably less strain on the environment.