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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.
Latest news
- , Podcasts
In this podcast we explore the challenges of financing the transition towards sustainable agri-food systems and the existing tools and policy instruments that could support ...
- , Events
Around 40% of land worldwide is already considered degraded and so is at risk of, or already suffering from, desertification. Research is therefore crucial for ...
- , Blogs
Extreme weather events caused by climate change are raising increasing concerns about the financial burden that Member States may have to face in the future ...
- , Blogs
With emissions trading schemes becoming more established for other sectors, could this approach translate to agriculture and do so in a way that supports a ...
- , Blogs
Approximately 13.2% of the EU’s total greenhouse gas emissions can be directly attributed to agricultural activity, with estimates climbing even higher when emissions from on-farm ...
Latest publications
- , Annual reports
In this Annual Report, we provide an overview of IEEP’s research work and innovative activities on European environmental policies covering the financial year July 2023-June ...
- , Reports
This report provides inspiration for stakeholders in Central Eastern European countries to pursue a more holistic and coordinated approach for transitioning towards climate friendly agri-food ...
- , Reports
As the European elections approach, hundreds of sustainability experts believe that the European Green Deal will be maintained by the new European Commission, but its ...
- , Reports
An emissions trading system (ETS) for agriculture can provide financial incentives for farmers to adopt more climate-friendly practices. For an on-farm ETS this mainly depends ...
- , Reports
This report presents an overview of ongoing and recently completed EU projects which promote innovation in carbon farming. ...
- , Briefings
Increasing carbon removals from forests is a necessity in achieving the EU’s overall climate objective of carbon neutrality by 2050. The upcoming Forest Monitoring Framework ...
