At Climate Foundation Skive, we strive to create growth conditions and frameworks for both established and new businesses within the entire field of green technology and sustainability. We succeed when agriculture, aquaculture, processing industries, research, and authorities, create value for one another in collaboration.
Our Contributions Include:
We are an independent, purpose-driven business foundation operating across municipal borders. Our work is strengthened by strong partnerships within research and ongoing dialogue with businesses, researchers, and authorities at local, national, and European levels.
The Foundation has been a driving force in establishing the Skive region as a hub for the development and ongoing evolution of business-based symbioses. Today, our focus is on demonstrating how the sustainable supply of green and blue biomasses to these symbiosis parks can contribute to the transformation of both primary industries and an improved environmental condition in the local fjord landscape.
Simultaneously, the underground resources in the region have shown a unique potential for securely and permanently storing CO2 – moreover, utilizing a technology based on nature’s own principles. It is the coexistence of these three areas that shapes the future’s integrated green business solutions and groundbreaking innovations, to the benefit of us all. And most importantly, the solution is replicable.
We are confronted with the challenge of achieving a healthy environmental state and climate neutrality. Denmark's climate goals and the requirement to comply with EU's water frame directive necessitate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and nutrient loss. While it may seem logical to take agricultural land out of use, this poses economic challenges for farming areas. Therefore, there is a need for nature-based solutions that simultaneously provide a sound business model.
In the green track, our focus is particularly on:
The ecosystem in the Limfjord near Skive faces particular challenges due to nutrient runoff from surrounding farms and decades of wastewater discharge. At the Climate Foundation, we explore solutions that minimize nutrient discharge and enhance nutrient uptake in the fjord through circular biobased business models.
In the blue track, our focus is on:
Business Development with CO2 Storage
Our most significant climate challenge is the urgent need to drastically reduce CO2 emissions to limit global warming to a maximum of 2 degrees. By 2050 at the latest, CO2 emissions must become negative. Hence, worldwide efforts are focused on developing a fossil-free industry and exploring opportunities for CO2 storage.
In the gray track, we are working to establish a foundation for maximizing the benefits of the emerging CO2 industry for local communities and businesses. This effort includes the development of:
By having living labs operating at scale and in practical applications, we can expedite the development of profitable and sustainable solutions on a commercial level. This approach also provides authorities with the knowledge necessary to design regulatory frameworks tailored to a circular and future-proof bioeconomy. The collaborative efforts within these living labs generate solutions that can be replicated locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally.
Example of Value Chains in Regenerative Bioeconomy and CO2 Economy:
No business symbiosis is more sustainable than the raw materials and the geography that supply it. The food, energy, and CCS industries should thus consider the entire value chain. This includes, among other things, cascading utilization of bioresources and land as a limited resource.
At Climate Foundation Skive, we use a systemic approach to facilitate and coordinate collaboration across five levels: technology, supply, market, regulation, and society. This approach addresses how we approach and understand the interplay between landscape areas, regulations, new technologies, new business models, and people – all built upon our local knowledge and network.
Et levende laboratorie for bæredygtig arealanvendelse etableres i samarbejde med erhvervsliv, forskningsmiljøer, myndigheder og lokalsamfund og under hensyntagen til natur- og miljøforhold. Formålet er at accelerere udviklingen af bæredygtige og rentable løsninger i kommerciel skala og give myndigheder den nødvendige viden til at kunne udforme regulatoriske rammer, der er tilpasset en cirkulær bioøkonomi.
