I am pleased to to invite you to the 33^rd edition of the European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, EUBCE 2025, that will be held in Valencia, Spain, between 9^th and 12^th June 2025. The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre continues to provide scientific support to this event and its scientific programme coordination.

While the climate crisis is accelerating at pace, there is an equally urgent need for accelerating the transition to climate neutrality. The transition to a sustainable low carbon energy system is a cornerstone of the ambitious climate goals and a key opportunity to keeping EU industrial leadership in clean technologies and enhance industrial competitiveness. To achieve climate neutrality, we need to increase the deployment of renewable and low carbon energies, rapidly phasing out of fossil fuels leveraging all available solutions through a technology-neutral approach.

As we phase out fossil fuels, biomass can have a role to play in the decarbonisation of the economy: from energy, transport to industrial sectors. Solutions are available for biomass to produce energy, sustainable fuels and bio-based materials and chemicals. ‘Negative-emission’ bioenergy could contribute to increase the flexibility of the energy system to accommodate a growing share of renewables in the grids. The use of sustainable advanced biofuels could contribute definitively for the decarbonisation of the aviation and maritime sectors and could also compensate, on short term, for a slower uptake of electrification in road transport.

The EUBCE programme for 2025 is structured as usual in horizontal themes dealing with biomass resources; sustainability, impacts and policies and biomass integration, as well as vertical themes addressing technologies for biomass conversion to bioenergy, sustainable biofuels; and bio-based products and bio-chemicals. Some adjustments have been made to enable a more focus on certain key areas and areas, such as sustainable biomass cultivation, biomass integration and new processing technologies to fuels, energy and materials. During the week, a wide range of interactive panel discussions and parallel events will complement the conference programme.

I invite you to address, in the conference, the potential of biomass to be converted into a wide range of end products, the opportunities and challenges associated with different conversion technologies and new, innovative approaches to bioenergy biofuels, bio-materials and bio-chemicals production. There is still large potential for innovation and technological improvements in various industries and for this, there will be space to discuss all opportunities and challenges of industrial applications. In the same time, we have to address all dimensions of sustainability (environmental, social, economic) using all available tools, including AI tools, to ensure the potential negative impacts of the use of biomass are reduced.

I look forward to receiving your abstract for consideration for inclusion in our EUBCE2025 programme.

Join us in Valencia at EUBCE 2025!

Dr. Nicolae Scarlat
European Commission JRC
EUBCE Technical Programme Chair

Dear Biomass Stakeholder,

Since the EUBCE at Marseille the global legislative landscape has rapidly been changing with new policies, market actions and mandates. Policy targets are high and overambitious to the extent that stakeholders are concerned that the policy targets are unrealistic and not achievable.

In most of the cases the burden is placed on the industry to deliver huge volumes of biomass feedstocks, biofuels, biomaterials and biochemicals in an unprecedented fashion and rush. The size of the required investments entailed in such accelerated deployment is equally unheard of while at the same time investors are shy due to the ever-changing legislative landscape. Significant differences in sustainability criteria related to food-based resources between the EU and other economic areas make the investors even more hesitant.

At the same time there are important efforts by the technology developers and the biomass industry to integrate innovation in the development of technologies at high TRL in order to improve the carbon conversion efficiency of their various processes to valuable products.

All the above issues result into a complex and multifaceted situation with more questions than answers.

In Valencia we can’t promise that we will be able to answer all your questions; however, we aim to have an excellent array of speakers in practically all the above issues and numerous of your peers attending either as speakers or in the exhibition. You are given a unique opportunity to join us and network or engage with your peers.

The EUBCE in Valencia is the conference to attend in 2025!

Dr. Kyriakos Maniatis
Former European Commission
EUBCE Industry Programme Coordinator