The increasing demand for food, energy, and biodiversity, as well as the need for natural capital conservation and resilience to climate change, are major challenges worldwide. The transition towards the bioeconomy can concretely improve the provision of private and public goods that enhance...

This report describes the bioeconomy policy developments in Albania, Armenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Kosovo*, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine, associated to the Horizon Europe Framework Programme. The work extends the geographic coverage of the...

The cross-cutting perspective of bioeconomy guides the transition away from non-renewable resources and towards biological resources,including the use of bio-based products, processes, and practices.Different countries and regions have quite different resource endowments and socio-economic...

Climate crisis-heating temperature trends are intensifying and further estimated to exacerbate by 2100, mainly due to the unprecedented upsurging rates of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. On the one hand, nations are escalating efforts for global warming not to outrun the 1.5 ºC threshold....

By 2023, bioenergy represented an important energy resource, accounting for approximately 10.81 % of global final energy consumption, or about 42 EJ/y. Of this value, around 35 EJ/y came from modern bioenergy, primarily modern solid biomass, while liquid biofuels contributed only 3.8 EJ/y. To...