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PUBLICATION | 2023

Green Biorefinery systems for the production of climate-smart sustainable products from grasses, legumes and green crop residues

Grasses, legumes and green plant wastes represent a ubiquitous feedstock for developing a bioeconomy in regions across Europe. These feedstocks are often an important source of ruminant...

PUBLICATION | 2023

The circularity gap report 2023

A global circular economy will allow us to fulfil people's needs with only 70% of the materials we now extract and use—moving human activity back within...

PUBLICATION | 2022

The circularity gap report 2022

This edition draws on five years of the Circularity Gap Report analysis to show the power of the circular economy to equitably fulfil our global needs and wants, but with radically fewer...

PUBLICATION | 2021

Bioeconomy for a sustainable future

This brochure describes what the bioeconomy is. It looks at how the bioeconomy can contribute to sustainable production and consumption and resource-use efficient agri-food systems in an economically, socially...

PUBLICATION | 2021

The circularity gap report 2021

To keep our world liveable and thriving, we need to double GLOBAL circularity from 8.6% to 17%.

PUBLICATION | 2018

Assessing the Contribution of Bioeconomy to the Total Economy: A Review of National Frameworks

Developments in technology have enabled envisioning the derivation of materials and products from renewable biomass as an alternative to finite fossil-based resource consumption. Therefore, bioeconomy is regarded as an opportunity for sustainable...

PUBLICATION | 2018

The global cropland footprint of the non-food bioeconomy

A rapidly growing share of global agricultural areas is devoted to the production of biomass for non-food purposes. The derived products include, for example, biofuels, textiles, detergents or cosmetics. Given...

PUBLICATION | 2017

Green, circular, bio economy: A comparative analysis of sustainability avenues

Despite their evidently different assumptions and operationalization strategies, the concepts of Circular Economy, Green Economy and Bioeconomy are joined by the common ideal to reconcile economic, environmental...