The European Investment Bank (EIB) will support The Navigator Company, a major Portuguese industrial group and Europe’s leading pulp and paper manufacturer, with a €27.5 million loan for the construction and operation of a new biomass boiler at their integrated mill facility located in Figueira da Foz, a cohesion region in Portugal.
This study is based on nine case studies from Africa, Asia, South America and Europe, where landscape governance has been adopted to manage the resources and land uses with the participation of the different stakeholders from government organisations, the private sector and non-governmental organisations.
The EU strategies for energy system integration and hydrogen will pave the way towards a more efficient and interconnected energy sector, driven by the twin goals of a cleaner planet and a stronger economy.
The 28th EUBCE will expand its portfolio from energy related biomass production and conversion of bio-based feedstock to other sectors of the economy and will now integrate the bioeconomy into its conference programme.
On June 11, 2020, the European Commission published “The EU Blue Economy Report 2020”, an overview of the performance of the EU economic sectors related to oceans and the coastal environment. With a turnover of €750 billion in 2018, the EU blue economy is in good health.
Scientists have created the first ever large-scale map of microscopic algae as they bloomed across the surface of snow along the Antarctic Peninsula coast. Results indicate that this ‘green snow’ is likely to spread as global temperatures increase.
Experts are manufacturing prototypes by coating or printing nanocellulose on textiles, paper or plastic to enhance the performance of these products in various applications.
The latest of the FAO Global Forest Resources Assessment, FRA 2020, examines the status of, and trends in, more than 60 forest-related variables in 236 countries and territories in the period 1990–2020.
Can we soon use asphalt on a large scale on a vegetable basis? The construction of test lanes with “bioasphalt” in the Netherlands should provide the necessary knowledge to start applying this technology on a large scale. The fossil constituent of asphalt, bitumen, is replaced by lignin, an important constituent of plants and trees. As a result, road construction is becoming greener, biogenic carbon can be stored in roads for a long time and we are becoming a little less dependent on petroleum again.
To ensure this new calculator provides the most accurate data on supply chain emissions we need to hear views from across the biomass industry to help further improve the modelling and create a high industry standard for emissions reporting. The consolation period will conclude on 12th June 2020.
In the webinar latest developments and innovative solutions for the sustainable production of biomass and low-ILUC risk options in agriculture will be discussed, including also a contribution by FNR about ‘Growing perennial crops on marginal land in Europe for bioenergy’.
EU-funded project Agrimax has launched an innovative new online service which enables crop producers, food processers and agricultural cooperatives to sell their waste as feedstock for two biorefineries: one in Spain and one in Italy. This will help maximise the EU’s sustainability while providing new biobased compounds for the chemicals, food-packaging and agricultural sectors.
Six new factsheets focused on Torrefied Pellets, Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil –HVO, Pyrolysis Oil, Bioenergy in Europe, Bioenergy in Slovenia and Biofuels in Bulgaria have recently been published.
A novel technology has been developed for hydrogen production from the process, which involves electron that is produced during the decomposition of biomass such as waste wood. The result produced after biomass decomposition is a high value-added compound, and it is a two-stone technology that improves the efficiency of hydrogen production.
This meeting place for the global pellet community offers a great opportunity to get informed about current trends in the pellet and bioenergy world.
Bioeconomy development depends on biomass supply. What are your preferences regarding biomass supply chains?
The conference addresses all those, who want to take action in climate protection and do care about sustainability. More than 220 lectures by international experts will portray the current ecological, political and economic developments in bioenergy.
This dataset comprises estimates of forest above-ground biomass for the year 2017. The data has been produced as part of the European Space Agency's (ESA's) Climate Change Initiative (CCI) programme by the Biomass CCI team.
