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":3,"featured_media":410455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[23],"tags":[2836,18844,58927,111713,193097,21976,61577,11230,54884,23197,8294,9886,193098,5495,126531,746,61803,10111,103728,525,4920,56351,265,3195,54887,135,16350,270,90804,22750,2853,8932,2128,46148,866,159,4995,1595,83504,67,132,68,16025,527],"class_list":["post-410454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-air-pollution","tag-biodiversity","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biofuels","tag-biomass","tag-buildings","tag-carbon","tag-chemicals","tag-circular-economy","tag-co2","tag-communications","tag-construction","tag-delara-burkhardt","tag-energy","tag-energy-security","tag-environment","tag-ethanol","tag-farmers","tag-feed","tag-finance","tag-fossil-fuels","tag-fuels","tag-growth","tag-industry","tag-jessika-roswall","tag-markets","tag-natural-gas","tag-oil","tag-organics","tag-packaging","tag-parliament","tag-plastics","tag-pollution","tag-regulatory","tag-renewable-energy","tag-science","tag-security","tag-startups","tag-strategic-autonomy","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-waste","tag-water"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}