Bioeconomy

The event is organized in the framework of the Interreg Baltic Sea Region project “Unlocking the Potential of Bio-based Value Chains in the Baltic Sea Region” (BalticBiomass4Value), which is being implemented by 17 business, science and public sector organizations from Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Poland, Germany, Sweden, Norway, and Russia.

The program consists of 4 sessions: Regulators and Climate Change, Global Leaders and Financial World, Bioproducts around us, Looking to the Future.

Why does cod in European seas continue to decline, and could climate change be playing a part?

Please save the dates for a series of joint workshops by SBP, IEA Bioenergy and ETIP Bioenergy devoted to exploring REDII implementation and delivering good woody biomass.

Do you care about our oceans and seas and got a great idea how to support them? Then maybe the EU missions’ call for ideas is just for you!

The European Committee of the Regions is launching a call for best practices to its members and young elected politicians (YEPs) to collect, display, promote and boost the replication of low-carbon projects across the EU. Is your city or region a sustainable champion? Are you proud of the projects that you are implementing in your community linked with the priorities of the Green Deal? Then this call is for you.

Best performing “fish-free” diet contains algae oil rich in essential omega-3 fatty acids.

Policy reforms and technological improvements could drive seafood production upward by as much as 75% over the next three decades, research by Oregon State University and an international collaboration suggests.

An unusual partnership between an asphalt manufacturer and a green group has produced Australia’s first road surfaces made from the ubiquitous waste item.

The UK is leading a new initiative to address the challenge to reuse or recycle more than the currently only 15% of composites produced in the UK, looking at the whole lifecycle of composites to future-proof the aeroplanes, cars and turbines of tomorrow.

Biodegradable shoes meet commercial standards for products needed to help eradicate tons of plastic waste

Researchers of Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) in collaboration with Hamburg University of Technology (TUHH) completed an international joint project to create a resource and CO2-neutral energy closed-loop technology from microalgae Chlorella sorokiniana and duckweed Lemna minor.

An optical fiber made of agar has been produced at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil. This device is edible, biocompatible and biodegradable. It can be used in vivo for body structure imaging, localized light delivery in phototherapy or optogenetics (e.g., stimulating neurons with light to study neural circuits in a living brain), and localized drug delivery.

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.

In Sumatra, small-scale farmers in particular play a key role, according to a study on the conversion of rainforests into monocultures and their effects.

The Biofuture Platform, a twenty-country, multi-stakeholder initiative, designed to take action on climate change and support the Sustainable Development Goals by promoting international coordination on the sustainable low-carbon bioeconomy, announced the launch of a set of voluntary principles.

Recycled material instead of waste: wood ash is good for soil and plants - if the quality is right. The German Federal Quality Association for Food Ash ensures reliable wood ash standards with its certifications. The RAL-Dünger label for fertilisers provides the necessary certification for natural wood ashes to be used in the circular economy.

Process could make wood more usable as a substitute for fossil resources

Women researchers are strongly influencing the adoption of agricultural biotechnology in Africa.