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biobased, Carbon footprint, Climate Change, and CO2 23 May 2024

Call for Member States to support an EU Sustainable Carbon Policy Package as a part of a future green EU Industrial Deal

The Netherlands, the Czech Republic, France and Ireland are proposing a European Sustainable Carbon Policy Package to start the gradual shift from fossil carbon to sustainable carbon sources (recycled...
biobased, bioeconomy, and biomass 29 Apr 2024

BioChem Europe: Supporting a strong cascading use principle for biomass

Biomass-derived chemicals are defined as chemical products that are wholly or partly derived from materials of biological origin – e.g. biomass. While biomass is often associated with renewabili...
biobased, bioeconomy, and biomass 29 Apr 2024

BioChem Europe : Paving the way for a thriving Bioeconomy in Europe

BioChem Europe applauds the Commission goal to shape a strong European Bioeconomy agenda and will keep providing insightful contribution to its implementation. Commission Comm...
Carbon footprint, CO2, and LCA 22 Apr 2024

Towards an accurate accounting for carbon from biomass in the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)

We need a fairer method to account for the footprint of biogenic carbon and allocate it to the actors along the bioeconomy value chains. Biogenic carbon in the current P...
advocacy and bioeconomy 28 Mar 2024

Boosting Biotechnology and Biomanufacturing in the EU

STATEMENT Brussels, 28 March 2024 - The European Commission published its Communication on biotechnology and biomanufacturing, setting a milestone and highlighting the potential of the sector in pa...
advocacy and bioeconomy 25 Oct 2022

Bio-base equivalence” contributes to a more circular and sustainable packaging

In the range of options to improve the sustainability and circularity of packaging materials and of Europe’s economy, biomass-derived content must be seen as a viable complementary alternative to in...
advocacy, Carbon footprint, and LCA 22 Jul 2022

Joint call for an accurate biogenic carbon accounting in the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)

9 European associations call for a fairer method to account for the footprint of biogenic carbon and allocate it to the actors along the bioeconomy value chains. Bio-based products...
Climate Change and CO2 21 Apr 2022

Biomass-derived chemistry’s multiple contributions to restoring sustainable carbon cycles

The recent release of the Communication on Sustainable Carbon Cycles is a chance for biomass-derived chemistry to stress its multi-facetted contribution to the EU climate ambition....
Climate Change and CO2 08 Apr 2022

The LULUCF regulation is key for a blossoming European bioeconomy

A balanced land-use, land-use change and forestry policy would contribute at the same time to climate change mitigation and to growing the circular bioeconomy. The land-use se...
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