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