The bioeconomy comprises sectors that use renewable biological resources to produce food, materials and energy. It is at the centre of several global and EU challenges in the near future such as the creation of growth and jobs, climate change, food security and resource depletion.
Several policy and action plans have been endorsed, among which the Bioeconomy Action Plan (2012) takes a particular integrative approach, comprising all those sectors of the economy that use renewable biological resources from land and sea – such as crops, forests, sh, animals and micro-organisms – to produce food, materials and energy.
The Drivers of European Bioeconomy in Transition report includes a detailed contemporary ‘business as usual’ projection to 2030 with accompanying alternate narratives representing two hypothetical policy pathways. Employing a useful decomposition technique, the reader is given insightful access to the relative role of economic and policy drivers in shaping market trends. Furthermore, by comparing policy narratives with the reference scenario, the report assesses both the resilience of EU’s bioeconomy in fulfilling a diverse portfolio of policy goals and identifies potential policy conflicts and trade-offs.
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