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22 Jul 2022
Joint call for an accurate biogenic carbon accounting in the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF)
advocacyCarbon footprintLCA9 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 are products wholly or partly derived from renewable materials of biological origin (i.e. from plants, crops, trees, algae and biological waste). These products are used in a wide range of applications, such as energy, textile, plastics, pharmaceuticals, hygiene, food and many more.
Ideally, bio-based products are circular by nature, since they are made of renewable resources, are designed to be re-used, re- and up-cycled several times, and at the end, for biodegradable ones, returned to nature through biodegradation or composting.
We need a fairer method to account for the footprint of biogenic carbon and allocate it to the actors along the bioeconomy value chains.