This report sets out guidance on managing healthy and resilient ecosystems in the context of the bioeconomy in Europe, specifically focused on agro-ecosystems, forest ecosystems and marine aquaculture ecosystems. The guidelines...

The aim of this study is to evaluate the climate benefits of harvested Wood-based Construction Products (WCP), and to explore the role of policy in encouraging the use of these materials. In particular, this study explores...

As part of its Green Deal Roadmap, the EU Commission has launched the Farm to Fork (F2F) and Biodiversity (BD) Strategies to cope with the environmental and climate challenges. Currently...

This study presents scenarios on how demand and supply for bio-based chemicals and materials could grow to 2030, and provides roadmaps with actions required to increase the deployment of chemical and material...

The European Union’s new Farm to Fork Strategy will initiate several well-defined actions, but its potential to foster genuine change of EU food systems depends...

The core of this research is an industrial organic waste treatment trial in which the fate of compostable packaging products is studied in a full scale organic waste treatment facility. The focus...

To meet the emission targets, the Dutch government expects that a large-scale deployment of biomass is needed but the macroeconomic impacts on the Dutch economy are unknown. This study analyses the impacts of the bio-based...

Focus on food packaging in the Netherlands

This study assesses the potential role, cost and benefits of biogas, as well as the key barriers and drivers of biogas deployment in the EU until and beyond 2020.