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Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy
Newsletter
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Issue 3, January 2022
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This is the bi-monthly newsletter of the European Commission’s Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy with information on some of the recent publications and news relevant for policymaking in the field of bioeconomy. For more information, you can browse and search our entire knowledge base by visiting the website.
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The coordination team
European Commission's Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy
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Bioeconomy knowledge highlights
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New data on jobs and wealth in the EU bioeconomy
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The JRC, together with the nova-Institute, have updated the socio-economic indicators for the EU bioeconomy. The new data on employment, value added and turnover for 2018 and 2019 can now be displayed and downloaded by sector and Member State from the updated dashboard on the EC's Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy and the Data-Modelling platform of resource economics - DataM. These indicators are also used in the EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System.
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Guidance note on monitoring the sustainability of the bioeconomy at a country or macro-regional level
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This joint report from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations and the JRC provides guidance to policymakers on how to monitor the sustainability of the bioeconomy in their country or within a macro-region. It describes a series of general steps to design and implement a monitoring and evaluation system.
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Implementation of the EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System dashboards
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Following the EU Bioeconomy Strategy, the JRC, with the support of experts from Member States, is developing an internationally coherent monitoring system to track economic, environmental and social progress towards a sustainable bioeconomy. The EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System, hosted in the EC's Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy platform, was officially launched in November 2020 and is in continuous improvement since then, with new features and enhancements. This new JRC report describes the progress made in 2021. It contains an overview of its current status, with technical details of the IT system, and future outlook.
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A quantitative sustainability assessment of food waste management in the European Union
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A new study, led by JRC scientists, performs a sustainability assessment covering the environmental, economic and social pillars, complemented with a life cycle costing, to analyse 21 pathways of food waste. These cover waste prevention, reuse, material and nutrient recycling and energy recovery.
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Read also...
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Commission launches public consultation on bio-based, biodegradable and compostable plastics
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The Commission has launched a public consultation on a new policy framework on bio-based, biodegradable and compostable plastics to get insights from citizens, consumers and stakeholders. The aim of the new framework will be to address emerging sustainability challenges related to the use of these groups of plastics as well as to drive innovation, enhance investment certainty within the internal market and to increase environmental protection.
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Commission proposals to remove, recycle and sustainably store carbon
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The Commission adopted a Communication on Sustainable Carbon Cycles, setting out how to increase removals of carbon from the atmosphere. To balance out the impacts of our CO2 emissions, the EU will need to drastically reduce its reliance on fossil carbon, upscale carbon farming to store more carbon in nature, and promote industrial solutions to sustainably and verifiably remove and recycle carbon.
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Commission adopts recommendation to help companies calculate their environmental footprint
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The Commission adopted a revised Recommendation on the use of Environmental Footprint methods, helping companies to calculate their environmental performance based on reliable, verifiable and comparable information, and for other actors (public administrations, NGOs, business partners, for example) to have access to such information.
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Portugal publishes National Action Plan for a sustainable bioeconomy horizon 2025
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The Action Plan published in Portuguese in December 2021 covers five key intervention areas: (i) to encourage sustainable production and use of regionally-based biological resources; (ii) to promote research, development and innovation; (iii) to develop circular and sustainable bio-industries; (iv) to promote bioeconomy knowledge and skills through education and training and (v) to monitor the bioeconomy.
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Modelling the bioeconomy: emerging approaches to address policy needs
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This article reviews emerging approaches to model the development of the bioeconomy, in order to close the identified gaps of existing models. The authors focus their analysis on how bioeconomy modelling addresses key factors (including climate change, biodiversity, circular use of biomass, consumer behaviour towards biomass and bio-based products and innovation) and indicate how emerging modelling techniques could improve the existing ones.
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Study on how methane's warming effects influence the cost-effectiveness of mitigation policies and benefits of dietary transitions
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Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, second only to carbon dioxide in its overall contribution to climate change. Its short atmospheric life has important implications for the design of global climate change mitigation policies in agriculture. A new study, involving JRC scientists, employed three different agricultural economic models to explore how short- and long-term warming effects of methane can affect the cost-effectiveness of mitigation policies and benefits of low-meat diets.
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Meeting global challenges with regenerative agriculture producing food and energy
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A multi-disciplinary team of researchers presents examples of 'regenerative' agricultural systems that capture and store large amounts of carbon while also producing food and energy, supporting rural communities and improving the environment.
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Words from the bioeconomy world
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Integrated aquaculture
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An aquaculture system sharing resources, water, feeds, management, etc., with other activities; commonly agricultural, agro-industrial, infrastructural (wastewaters, power stations, etc.).
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