- Growing demand for biomass is putting pressure on industry to deliver sufficient quantities without destroying the environment, the European Commission has warned, pointing to a looming “availability gap” which could be as big as 40-70% by 2050.
- The bioeconomy – the use of biological resources from land and sea to produce food, materials or energy – is touted in Brussels as one of the solutions to shift society towards a low-carbon, circular economy that is less dependent on fossil fuels.
- If all the pulp and paper mills in the EU were to produce more of this material for batteries, the EU would no longer need to rely on imports from foreign countries.
‘Biomass availability gap’ looms large over EU’s green bioeconomy
