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Fraunhofer researchers present a bioeconomy roadmap for resources conservation, climate protection, and food security

A biobased economy promotes a sustainable way of running our economy which intelligently reconciles ecology and economy and is aligned with natural material cycles. Food, materials and energy...

The Global Biorefinery Status Report of IEA Bioenergy Task 42 (biorefining) provides an overview of recent biorefinery developments. The report gives a description of the current situation of biorefineries...

The ‘Trilateral strategy for the chemical industry’ is a cross-border cooperation between the Netherlands, Flanders and North Rhine-Westphalia. In September 2017 the Ministry of Economics, Innovation, Digitalisation & Energy of the State...

The bio-based sector is amongst the most thriving sectors in the European bioeconomy. Industry players in this sector use biological resources (including residues and waste) to make innovative greener...

Guidelines of the new bioeconomy strategy The new bioeconomy strategy provides the conditions to develop the full potential of the bioeconomy for Germany to strengthen its role as a bioeconomy leader and...

The European Union has recently introduced the ’circular economy’ as a high-level strategy to move our societies beyond the limits to growth. In the eyes of European policy makers, we...

Outcomes of the JRC-BBI JU- IEA survey on strategies and policies for the EU Bioeconomy in 2017. The Joint Research Centre (JRC), the International Energy Agency (IEA) Bioenergy and...

as part of the German Federal Government action plans for the material and energetic utilisation of renewable raw materials

The economic upturn of the past 200 years would not have been conceivable without fossil non-renewable resources such as coal and oil. They were the basis...