Land Use and Climate
For more information
on the Land Use and Climate
programme, please contact:
Julia Bognar
Head of programme
Bioeconomy and bioresources
Biomass from natural resources and wastes, currently provides a significant proportion of Europe’s renewable energy and a growing share of Europe’s material inputs to the bioeconomy.
Yet questions remain over the sustainability of this material use in terms of wider environmental impacts, the scale at which it is deployed, alternatives, and the efficiency of resource use.
Delivering environmentally responsible bioresources requires the consideration of a wide range of interrelated factors, including: existing uses of biomass; direct and indirect land use impacts; understanding waste management and residue use; environmental, social and economic consequences; as well as trade and inter-institutional factors across a wide range of sectors.
Our priorities
Improve the sustainability of policies that utilise biomass from all its sources.
Take a multi-disciplinary approach to assessing these complex relationships, focussing on the interconnectivity of impacts across sectors as diverse as food production, waste management, energy and transport.
To integrate bioeconomy and bioresource considerations within the circular economy policy – to ensure a circular-bio-economy.
To ensure that EU policies reflect the limits of biomass availability and that the use of biomass does not undermine carbon sink and biodiversity objectives.
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