The UN sustainable development goals are at the top of the international science, technology and innovation (STI) policy agenda. Among the key objectives of policies to improve sustainability is the development of renewable, innovative bioproducts beyond biofuels and traditional products[1] that:
The challenge involves comprehensive analysis of:
Better understanding in this regard could lead to more sustainable value chains, greater trust and acceptance by consumers and end-users, and awareness among decision-makers. In the long term, better understanding of sustainability standards can lead to a closer alignment of growth and circularity and ultimately increase the market share of the resulting novel bio-based products.
Scope:Building on the state of the art, including past and ongoing EU-funded projects, this action will bring together global sustainability experts in bio-based innovation (focus on bio-based products) to strengthen the common understanding of sustainability goals and green innovation, and to provide reliable and easy-to-use data for policymakers, consumers and end-users. Cooperation with key European and non-European bioeconomy leaders and international organisations, and the bio-based industry is strongly encouraged.
The action will:
The Commission considers that proposals requesting an EU contribution of up to EUR 1.5 million would allow this specific challenge to be addressed appropriately. This does not preclude the submission and selection of proposals requesting other amounts.
Expected Impact:In the framework of the renewed 2018 European bioeconomy strategy[5] related to voluntary guidance on bio-based innovations, proposals are expected to:
Short/medium term:
Long term:
[1]See a related topic RUR-21-2020 (“Agricultural international trade in the context of the sustainability objectives”) in the Rural Renaissance call.
[2]e.g. ongoing work in international organisations such as the OECD (Working Party on Bio-, Nano-, and Converging Technologies) and the FAO, European national and international efforts (e.g. Global Bioeconomy Summit, International Bioeconomy Forum) and other initiatives (e.g. Ellen McArthur Foundation CE100.CO. Project on renewable materials).
[3]Taking account of the principle of cascade use, existing criteria for bioenergy product sustainability and existing approaches to indirect land-use change (ILUC) for bioenergy for the development of ILUC factors for bio-based products.
[4]e.g. see recommendations developed by European Committee for Standardisation Technical Committee 411 (CEN/TC411) on bio-based products: (https://standards.cen.eu/dyn/www/f?p=204:32:0::::FSP_ORG_ID,FSP_LANG_ID:874780,25&cs=1D63BAA7EABE56EB230DDAA05D6F2CE70), and those published on the European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment (http://ec.europa.eu/environment/ipp/lca.htm): EN 16751:2016 (Bio-based products – Sustainability criteria), EN 16760:2015 (Bio-based products – Life cycle assessment), CEN/TR 16957:2016 (Bio-based products – Guidelines for Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) for the End-of-life phase); Commission Recommendation 2013/179/EU on the use of common methods to measure and communicate the life cycle environmental performance of products and organisations (http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32013H0179&from=EN); International reference life cycle data system (ILCD) Handbook developed by the European Commission Joint Research Centre (http://eplca.jrc.ec.europa.eu/?page_id=86); Guide for interpreting life cycle assessment result (2016), developed by the European Commission Joint Research Centre, 2016 (https://ec.europa.eu/jrc/en/publication/guide-interpreting-life-cycle-assessment-result).
[5]Action no. 3, point 3.1.3 “Study and analysis of enablers and bottlenecks and provide voluntary guidance to the deployment of bio-based innovations”.
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