Bitumen is a by-product of oil production and is used to bind the surfaces of paved roads. Some researchers, concerned about its environmental impacts and future supply if petroleum refining slows down, have started to develop bio-based alternatives
Regions and cities need to work together across administrative borders to unleash the potential of bioeconomy in terms of growth and jobs and its contribution to the UN's Sustainable Development Goals, the European Committee of the Regions underlines in an opinion drafted by Jácint Horváth (HU/PES), Member of Nagykanizsa Municipal Council.
At the end of its seven-year term, theCouncil calls on the German government to do even more to encourage the transition to a sustainable and biobased economy.
On the occasion of the third African Union – European Union agricultural ministerial conference, African Union and the European Union representatives will for the first time endorse a Political Declaration, accompanied by an action agenda, with the overall aim of further strengthening the Africa-EU partnership in food and farming at all levels.
In order to estimate how much European forests contribute to our EU 2030 climate targets by removing CO2 from the atmosphere, the LULUCF Regulation required Member States to submit National Forestry Accounting Plans.
This collection contains datasets from ENSPRESO (ENergy Systems Potential Renewable Energy SOurces), an EU-28 wide, open dataset for energy models on renewable energy potentials, at national (NUTS0) and regional levels (NUTS2) for the 2010-2050 period.
The Blue Bioeconomy Forum brings together a partnership of industry, public authorities, academia, and finance in order to strengthen Europe's competitive position in the emerging blue bioeconomy.
The Commission has published its assessment of Member States' draft plans to implement the EU's Energy Union objectives, and in particular the agreed EU 2030 energy and climate targets.
Discover new opportunities in the circular bioeconomy and other stories and news from the EIP-AGRI network in this new issue of the yearly Agrinnovation magazine. The magazine also gives an update on how the network has reached 1000 Operational Groups across Europe, inspirational ideas for healthy bees, examples of innovation support and stories from Latvia, Portugal, Hungary, Italy, France and many others.
The EU's Joint Research Centre (JRC) recently published a report analysing collaboration between EU Joint Undertakings (JUs), such as the BBI JU, and the EU's Structural and Investment Funds (ESI). The BBI JU is cited multiple times in the analysis.
The European Commission has adopted a Communication, taking stock of the implementation of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy and launching a consultation on the fishing opportunities for 2020.
A recent Euronews Futuris episode on the European Union (EU) bioeconomy, renewable resources, bioplastics, and citizen science opens with a reference to JRC data on the European Commission's Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy.
The EU is adopting new rules for placing fertilising products on the EU market. The Council today adopted a regulation which harmonises the requirements for fertilisers produced from phosphate minerals and from organic or secondary raw materials in the EU, opening up new possibilities for their production and marketing on a large scale. The regulation sets harmonised limits for a range of contaminants, such as cadmium, contained in mineral fertilisers.
