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Increasing pressure on land resources necessitates landscape management strategies that simultaneously deliver multiple benefits to numerous stakeholder groups with competing interests. Accordingly, we developed...

The German government is creating the basis for the sustainable use of biomass from forestry, agriculture and waste management. To this end, the Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Action, the Federal Ministry...

Climate change, global population growth, declining natural resources and the loss of biodiversity challenge us to move towards a global bioeconomy, based on the sustainable utilisation of renewable...

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...

Ahead of COP 26 in November 2021, this report gathers all known national commitments to eventually stop using unabated coal-fired power generation announced to date...

Due to the geographical and economic conditions, northern European and, particularly, the Baltic Sea region (BSR) countries are especially predisposed to biomass production and bioenergy generation...

BÖRMEMO 06 - A central task of the bioeconomy is to secure the food of a growing world population. This means providing adequately nutritious, healthy, tasty and sustainably produced foods...

BÖRMEMO 05 - Next to agriculture, forestry is the most important sector of the economy that provides raw materials for the bioeconomy. As the bioeconomy continues to expand, we must ask...

The competitiveness of conventional and advanced (second generation) biofuels is a critical issue for the implementation of a sustainable transport strategy. We model biofuel competition under different feedstock cost...

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