SUSTAINABILITY, IMPACTS AND POLICIES
- Sustainability aspects of biomass production and use;
- Sustainability schemes, sustainability standards and products certification;
- Socio-economic aspects, benefits and socio-economic opportunities;
- Competition and risk mitigation of the increased use of biomass;
- Bioenergy, food security and local, traditional use of biomass;
- Actions for sustainable economic growth;
- Bioenergy contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG);
- Improving citizen awareness and acceptance;
- Promoting good practices for bioenergy.
- Biomass and land use, agricultural intensification, water and air emissions from biomass production and conversion;
- Biomass production preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services;
- Land use change impacts, monitoring and addressing indirect land use changes;
- Land use and land governance;
- Biomass production and water use, energy, land and water interactions;
- Trade-offs between different impacts;
- Environmental Life Cycle Assessments.
- Climate impacts of biomass, biofuels, bioenergy and bio-based products production;
- Assessment of climate change mitigation potential;
- GHG emissions, LULUCF and sustainable forest management;
- Assessing direct and indirect land use change impacts;
- Carbon storage on land and materials;
- Innovative carbon utilisation options;
- Assessing GHG of biomass pathways;
- GHG Life Cycle Assessment.
- Policies for the sustainable and circular economy;
- Agriculture, forestry and rural development;
- Bioenergy policies and targets for 2030 and beyond;
- Bioenergy and bio-based products contribution to a low carbon economy; LULUCF emissions and Emissions Trading Scheme;
- The role of bio-based products for the 2030 and 2050 targets;
- Biomass and rural development, opportunities in the sustainable and circular economy;
- Strategies for international cooperation;
- Strategies for the integration of bioenergy into a low-carbon economy;
- Strategies for the integration of bio-based products into the chemical industry.
- Approaches for efficient management of natural resources (land and water);
- Promoting resource efficient value chains;
- Sustainable circular economy and cascading use of biomass;
- Competition and risks of the increased use of biomass;
- Opportunities of biomass use for food, feed, fuels, bio-based products;
- Innovation, growth and job creation;
- Exploiting the value of co-products;
- Cross-sectorial synergies to avoid over-exploitation.
