Bioeconomy

Biotech Crops Continue to Help Meet the Challenges of Increased Population and Climate Change

The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certificates for North Sea cod fisheries will be suspended after stocks dropped below the safe biological level.

This report provides a cross-country review of waste, materials management and circular economy policies in selected OECD countries, drawing on OECD’s Environmental Performance Reviews during the period 2010-17

Algae, for most of us, is something that lives in water courses that we occasionally find unpleasant. However, that is to do them a wrong. These extremely versatile and frugal organisms might in future prove to be extremely important. Scientists at the University of Stuttgart are investigating how algae can be used as microrobots in biomedicine and environmental remediation.

The FAO Food Price Index is a measure of the monthly change in international prices of a basket of food commodities. It consists of the average of five commodity group price indices, weighted with the average export shares of each of the groups for 2002-2004.

Participation of Frans Timmermans, First Vice-President of the EC, in the 74th session of the United Nations General Assembly, New York: SDGs Summit - High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development

EU ambassadors greenlighted the Council's position on a proposal to create an EU-wide classification system, or "taxonomy", which will provide businesses and investors with a common language to identify what economic activities can be considered environmentally sustainable.

Commission experts from the Joint Research Centre will provide support and guidance to 13 Bulgarian research and innovation centres to help them bring their innovative ideas to the market, facilitate the transfer and dissemination of knowledge and strengthen both their ties with businesses and their participation in European and international cooperation projects.

The AZTI research centre is leading the “SUMMER” Horizon2020 project, an intiative that seeks to generate knowledge about mesopelagic fish; the largest known unexploited marine living resource.

The European Union participated in the 41st Annual Meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (NAFO), in Bordeaux, from 23 to 27 September 2019.

IFIB is confirmed as one of the leading events for the circular bioeconomy. The Naples edition will see the presence of some of the most important players at global level and will be the occasion to discuss value chains, education, the role of regions and cities in specific round tables.

None of the EU countries are currently using their full potential in terms of renewable energy production.

This report provides a cross-country review of waste, materials management and circular economy policies in selected OECD countries, drawing on OECD’s Environmental Performance Reviews during the period 2010-17.

Nordic Forest Research (SNS) and the Forest Bioeconomy Network (former EFINORD) collaborate to support forest research networks on an annual basis. Both organisations share a common goal of supporting research in forest issues related to bioeconomy.