In his keynote speech on Tuesday, the opening day of the Filtech conference and exhibition which took place in Cologne, Germany, from February 24-26, Dr Karsten Keller of DuPont outlined the key benefits of an integrated science approach to solving some of the world’s biggest challenges.
These include, he explained, the need to be producing 70% more food by 2050, even though agriculture is not growing, and also to generate 40% more energy by then, without increasing global warming.