At the center of the strategy is carbon, the fundamental building block of a wide range of manufactured products, not just energy. Almost all plastic, for example, is made from carbon, and currently most of that carbon comes from oil and natural gas.<\/p>\n
But fossil fuels have two major drawbacks: they pollute the atmosphere with planet-warming CO2, and they are mostly imported from outside the EU, compromising the bloc’s strategic autonomy. <\/p>\n
The bioeconomy strategy aims to address both drawbacks by using locally produced or recycled carbon-rich biomass rather than imported fossil fuels. <\/strong>It proposes doing this by setting targets in relevant legislation, such as the EU’s packaging waste laws, helping bioeconomy startups access finance, harmonizing the regulatory regime and encouraging new biomass supply.<\/p>\n The 23-page strategy is light on legislative or funding promises, mostly piggybacking on existing laws and funds. Still, it was hailed by industries that stand to gain from a bigger market for biological materials.<\/p>\n \u201cThe forest industry welcomes the Commission\u2019s growth-oriented approach for bioeconomy,\u201d said Viveka Beckeman, director general of\u00a0the Swedish Forest Industries Federation, stressing the need to \u201cboost the use of biomass as a strategic resource that benefits not only green transition and our joint climate goals but the overall economic security.\u201d<\/p>\n How renewable is it?<\/p>\n But environmentalists worry Brussels may be getting too chainsaw-happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the center of the strategy is carbon, the fundamental building block of a wide range of manufactured…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[39611,1868,37800,33855,14970,10006,882,20169,19132,30900,6391,1360,112123,18,7520,71275,440,111763,18295,28158,1729,20441,17920,7111,19,4286,17,57667,188,47616,9951,64472,18580,29305,2374,3476,13701,961,133,983,238,14662,18582,447],"class_list":{"0":"post-203693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-air-pollution","9":"tag-biodiversity","10":"tag-bioeconomy","11":"tag-biofuels","12":"tag-biomass","13":"tag-buildings","14":"tag-carbon","15":"tag-chemicals","16":"tag-circular-economy","17":"tag-co2","18":"tag-communications","19":"tag-construction","20":"tag-delara-burkhardt","21":"tag-eire","22":"tag-energy","23":"tag-energy-security","24":"tag-environment","25":"tag-ethanol","26":"tag-farmers","27":"tag-feed","28":"tag-finance","29":"tag-fossil-fuels","30":"tag-fuels","31":"tag-growth","32":"tag-ie","33":"tag-industry","34":"tag-ireland","35":"tag-jessika-roswall","36":"tag-markets","37":"tag-natural-gas","38":"tag-oil","39":"tag-organics","40":"tag-packaging","41":"tag-parliament","42":"tag-plastics","43":"tag-pollution","44":"tag-regulatory","45":"tag-renewable-energy","46":"tag-science","47":"tag-security","48":"tag-startups","49":"tag-strategic-autonomy","50":"tag-waste","51":"tag-water"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}