Summary
This position paper sets out five key actions for the upcoming 2025 Bioeconomy Strategy. The revision of the Bioeconomy Strategy should be mainstreamed into all forthcoming legislations and should prioritise actionable and implementable measures for developing an industrial bioeconomy, fostering the international competitiveness and resilience of the EU while adhering to planetary boundaries, and serve both as an industrial and competitiveness strategy.
Key recommendations
- Developing new value chains and new market opportunities by creating efficient demand
- Creating agile and coherent regulations and government policy to support innovation and realise the opportunities brought by the bioeconomy
- Promoting sustainable sourcing of and access to biomass to support scale-up and industrialisation.
- Enabling innovations to move from the lab to the market.
- Ensuring the long-term competitiveness of the European Chemical industry.
