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A webinar by the Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) on 10th March provides an outlook on the sustainable use of bio-based value-added chemicals and their growing market.

There have been active discussions on increasing the value added by the forest industry for years. However, the discussions have widely overlooked a major untapped stream of raw...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), across the globe, around 3.5 million hectares of land are converted for tobacco growing each year. Growing tobacco...

Improved vitality and resilience of mixed forests will help our forests adapt to climate change. The Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) has produced new...

Reliable, up-to-date biomass data are needed for climate change mitigation and resource efficiency. Therefore, a calculation and reporting tool with thematic maps and data was developed...

A new EU funded project MoniFun is building a database on Europe's forests. The aim is to compile comprehensive information on Europe's forests and their links to climate change, society...

The region of North Karelia, Finland, has a strong forest-based bioeconomy sector. This report describes the region’s opportunities for increasing co-operation in forest-based bioeconomy with China. The forest-based bioeconomy...

Biomass atlas makes Finnish biomass maps freely available to everyone Biomass Atlas is an open service that collects location data about biomass under a...

This report presents an overview of existing bioeconomy strategies, policies or related initiatives and indicators to monitor and assess these at EU MS level, and the importance of existing bioeconomy sectors...