Supporting policy with scientific evidence

The Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH) and the ABS Clearing-House (ABSCH) provide various help tools (materials), which are similar in both clearing-houses, and are designed to assist users with website navigation and performing various tasks.

The European project ESMIC is mapping, analysing and providing data on the impact of plastics on the cross-border beach Palanga between Lithuania and Latvia. To map plastics, scientists use several techniques, including drone imaging. This data is then compared with satellite images. This is how they determine which areas are most affected and the volume of algae and plastic that could help the municipalities. It is also of interest to the Lithuanian and Latvian authorities.

Global challenges, such as climate change and land and ecosystem degradation, coupled with growing demands for food and energy, force us to find new ways of producing and consuming. A sustainable and circular bioeconomy helps address these challenges. To develop a sustainable and circular bioeconomy, policies must be evidence-based and coherent across different sectors.

The forest-based bioeconomy contributes to climate change in different ways: through the carbon stored in forests and the carbon stored in products made from wood, as well as by using wood to substitute fossil fuels and other, more carbon-intensive, materials.

Life cycle assessment methods are used to monitor and predict environmental impacts at all stages of a system’s life cycle. They can support policymaking and help ensure a sustainable and circular Bioeconomy.

Forestry biomass production within a sustainable and circular bioeconomy

Fisheries and aquaculture biomass production within a sustainable and circular bioeconomy

Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy - video on algae biomass production

Presenting our focus and main lines of work.

Syakaa talked about why timber is a good construction solution for East Africa, the challenges of building a market in the region, East African timber pioneers and what is being done to equip the next generation of engineers and architects with the skills required for building with mass timber.