Development of a bioeconomy monitoring framework for the European Union: An integrative and collaborative approach

Naeije, Robert; Giuntoli, Jacopo; Araújo, Rita; Avraamides, Marios N.; Balzi, Elisabetta; Barredo, José I.; Baruth, Bettina; Becker, William E.; Borzacchiello, Maria Teresa; Bulgheroni, Claudia; Camia, Andrea; Gianluca, Fiore; Follador, Marco; Gurría, Patricia; Notte, Alessandra La; Maria, Lusser; Luisa, Marelli; Robert, M'barek; Parisi, Claudia; Philippidis, George; Ronzon, Tévécia; Sala, Serenella; López, Javier Sánchez; Mubareka, Sarah

doi:10.1016/j.nbt.2020.06.001

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“…There are efforts of monitoring the EU bioeconomy and single country bioeconomies. The European Commission provides its monitoring results for the EU bioeconomy and single MS online at https://ec.europa.eu/knowledge4policy/bioeconomy/monitoring_ en [90]. Several countries (Argentina, Australia, Germany, Malaysia, the Netherlands, South Africa, and the United States) are measuring the contribution of the bioeconomy to their overall economy or country objectives [91].…”

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Development of the Circular Bioeconomy: Drivers and Indicators

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The EU’s 2018 Bioeconomy Strategy Update and the European Green Deal recently confirmed that the bioeconomy is high on the political agenda in Europe. Here, we propose a conceptual analysis framework for quantifying and analyzing the development of the EU bioeconomy. The bioeconomy has several related concepts (e.g., bio-based economy, green economy, and circular economy) and there are clear synergies between these concepts, especially between the bioeconomy and circular economy concepts. Analyzing the driving factors provides important information for monitoring activities. We first derive the scope of the bioeconomy framework in terms of bioeconomy sectors and products to be involved, the needed geographical coverage and resolution, and time period. Furthermore, we outline a set of indicators linked to the objectives of the EU’s bioeconomy strategy. In our framework, measuring developments will, in particular, focus on the bio-based sectors within the bioeconomy as biomass and food production is already monitored. The selected indicators commit to the EU Bioeconomy Strategy objectives and conform with findings from previous studies and stakeholder consultation. Additionally, several new indicators have been suggested and they are related to measuring the impact of changes in supply, demand drivers, resource availability, and policies on sustainability goals.

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“…The methodologies and indicators described in this paper will contribute to the development of the EU Bioeconomy Monitoring system [90].…”

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“…While policy strategies have been implemented and billion dollar heavy industries such as on biofuels have been created, a comprehensive monitoring of the actual performance of BE regarding the achievement of sustainability goals, including the effects of past and ongoing policies has been largely lacking 13,14 . Requirements and concepts for bio-economy monitoring are discussed for example by O'Brien et al 15 and Robert et al 16 . In this context resource FPs are seen as suitable indicators to assess the environmental effects of human consumption (e.g.…”

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WITHDRAWN: Shifting Hazards: Footprint trends of the German Bioeconomy

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Hoping to support sustainability, many countries established policies to foster bioeconomy (BE). While shifting towards more biomass use bears chances and risks, appropriate monitoring is still lacking. Here we show for the first time global key environmental footprints (FPs) of the German BE. From 2000 to 2030, the agricultural biomass FP is dominated by animal-based food consumption, which is slightly declining. Forest biomass FP of consumption could be potentially supplied from domestic territory. Agricultural land use for consumption is triple of domestic agricultural land (which covers half of Germany), having induced significant land use change in other regions from 2000 to 2015. Water FP for irrigation has decreased and might decline in absolute terms, but the share of supply regions with water stress might increase until 2030. The climate FP of BE contributes 20 to 18 % to the total climate FP of domestic consumption, while employment makes up 10 % and value added only 8 % of total.

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“…In addition to establishing definitions, setting targets, and conducting research to improve the knowledge of the bioeconomy, attempts have been made to identify indicators by which the state of the bioeconomy in the European Union, individual Member States, or at a regional level can be estimated. Independent scientific bodies (e.g., joint research centers) are making significant efforts in this area: studying the share of bio-products and their impact on bioeconomy sectors [8,9], estimating the production and processing of biomass by individual sectors of the bioeconomy [10], building tools to monitor the bioeconomy [11,12], or assessing employment in bioeconomy sectors [13]. In addition to estimating and analyzing indicators for the bioeconomy, attempts have been undertaken to use more advanced methods for quantitative impact assessment.…”

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Comparing Bioeconomy Potential at National vs. Regional Level Employing Input-Output Modeling

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The support of economic sectors that exploit natural bio-based resources in a particular region is an opportunity to benefit from local potentials in terms of sustainability, employment, output, and household income. Hence a relevant question emerges, namely, how can bioeconomy sectors be adequately supported? Within this context, another issue is whether the bioeconomy development strategy at a national level should be the same as that at a regional level. To address these issues, in the current study a comparison was made between the bioeconomy sectors at the country level based on the case study of Poland and one of the poorest regions in the European Union—the Lubelskie Region. A regional input–output model was built for the regional economy and compared with the national model. The bioeconomy-oriented regional input–output table was built by applying a hybrid regionalization method, combining non-survey techniques and a questionnaire survey that was carried out in companies of mixed bio-based sectors. Sectoral linkages, such as multipliers and elasticities, indicate notable differences among the bio-based sectors’ potentials of the regional and national economies. Therefore, a bioeconomy development strategy should be seen to differ at national and regional levels.

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Development of a bioeconomy monitoring framework for the European Union: An integrative and collaborative approach

Abstract: Graphical abstract Integrative and collaborative process adopted to design the EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System

Cited by 57 publications

References 26 publications

Development of the Circular Bioeconomy: Drivers and Indicators

Development of the Circular Bioeconomy: Drivers and Indicators

WITHDRAWN: Shifting Hazards: Footprint trends of the German Bioeconomy

Comparing Bioeconomy Potential at National vs. Regional Level Employing Input-Output Modeling

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