The WCBEF is a think-tank initiative which provides a platform for key stakeholders of the Circular Bioeconomy to share ideas and promote bio-based responsible innovations to replace and supersede non-renewable based industries, products and services to achieve a more sustainable economy while mitigating climate change.
This consultation aims to collect views on current opportunities and challenges in rural areas, aspirations for rural areas in 2040 and the actions needed to achieve these aspirations.
European Research and Innovation Days is the European Commission’s annual flagship event, bringing together policymakers, researchers, entrepreneurs and citizens to debate and shape the future of research and innovation in Europe and beyond.
Productive systems face a fourfold challenge in the face of a global economic downturn exacerbated by COVID 19: produce more efficiently or reinvent themselves, maintain value chains that support jobs and livelihoods, while ensuring the sustainable use and rehabilitation of nature facing climate change.
This paper shows the immediate and the mid to long-term impacts of the bio-based industries on the EU's green recovery. The sector positively contributes to environmental, economic and social challenges by sustainably processing domestic renewable feedstock from agriculture, forestry and fisheries, as well as residues, bio-waste and recycled carbon emissions, in state-of-the-art biorefineries to provide bio-based solutions for our customers and consumers.
The National Bioeconomy Coordination Group (NBCG) of the Presidency of Council of Ministers has published the Implementation Action Plan (2020-2025) for the Italian Bioeconomy Strategy BIT II. It includes, among others, a series of relevant targeted actions which have been clustered into four main topics: policy/standards, pilot actions, regeneration of ecosystem services and stakeholders engagement, and showcases concrete projects and examples of Bioeconomy investments which can act as catalyst of socio-economic growth.
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.
EU environment and climate ministers had a policy debate on the contribution of environmental and climate policies to the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.
The European Committee of the Regions is currently drafting an opinion on the Farm to Fork Strategy to bring forward a local and regional dimension. You can give your views on this topic. Deadline: 30 June 2020
The European Committee of the Regions launches a new working group to ensure that cities and regions can bring the European Green Deal off the ground with concrete projects and direct funding to local and regional authorities.
Integrated multi-trophic aquaculture (IMTA) is supported by the main European Union policies; however, there are still many social, administrative and legal limitations that do not allow full development of these production systems. In order to overcome these challenges, a group of European experts have been working for almost three years in the INTEGRATE project to strengthen he collaboration networks between the scientific community, industry and administration, in order to add value to the knowledge acquired and turn this innovative sustainable aquaculture solution into a realty in Europe.
Ensuring that the Green Deal is at the core of the COVID-19 recovery strategy is a top priority for the Commission for the Environment, Climate change and Energy (ENVE) of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR).
The European Committee of the Regions' ENVE Commission has launched an online stakeholders' consultation with the purpose of gathering input for its upcoming opinion on the new Circular Economy Action Plan (CEAP) which was published on the 11th of March 2020 by the European Commission (EC) as part of the European Green Deal.
The ambitious European Commission strategy to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the EU and achieve climate neutrality by 2050 has recently been set in motion as the European Green Deal. The European Bioeconomy Alliance (EUBA), representing twelve organisations in various sectors active in the bioeconomy, welcomes such a comprehensive policy tool that should ensure alignment and coherence between the different initiatives that are part of the Deal.
As announced in the Commission Work Programme for 2020, the Commission will present a strategy for smart sector integration for a future integrated European energy system by June 2020. In preparation of this strategy, the Commission is seeking input from all stakeholders and EU citizens.
BIOEASTsUP supports the BIOEAST initiative and aim to boost knowledge and innovation-based bioeconomies in the Central and Eastern European CEE countries. The Newsletter informs about the current developments in the project, the BIOEAST Initiative and the partner countries.
A call for papers is launched to collect contributions on good practices, methods, indicators, and data to identify and manage transboundary impacts. The selected papers will be published in a report focusing on the role of OECD Policy Coherence for Sustainable Development framework to support countries in managing the post COVID-19 by coping with Transboundary impacts and long term effects within a sustainable development context in a more resilient society.
These 5 new and updated factsheets provide an overview of bioenergy in Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Germany.
Today, the European Commission adopted a new Circular Economy Action Plan - one of the main building blocks of the European Green Deal, Europe's new agenda for sustainable growth.
The package of initiatives outlines a new approach to European industrial policy that is firmly rooted in European values and social market traditions. It sets out a range of actions to support all players of European industry, including big and small companies, innovative start-ups.
