Bio-based economy

12 important questions on Bio-based economy

What is the difference between biomass, bio economy and bio based economy?

Bio mass refers to the sustainable resource to replace fossil fuels.

Bio economy is about biomass as a fuel for food, feed (agriculture) AND bio-based economy.

Biobased economy  includes biochemicals, bio-plastic and bio energy.

Bio energy refers to bio electricity, biofuel and bio gass and bio heat.

What is the difference between biomass, bio economy and bio based economy?

Bio mass refers to the sustainable resource to replace fossil fuels.

Bio economy is about biomass as a fuel for food, feed (agriculture) AND bio-based economy.

Biobased economy  includes biochemicals, bio-plastic and bio energy.

Bio energy refers to bio electricity, biofuel and bio gass and bio heat.

What is meant with circular BBE?

Circular BBE is referring to using biomass as efficient as possible, optimizing value over time and focussing on sustainability.
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What is the key premise of BBE? And what does affect its ability?

The key premise of BBE is that it mitigates climate change by replacing fossil fuels with biomass as feed stock for energy, materials and chemicals.

(indirect) land use change does affect BBE's ability to achieve mitigating climate change.

Controversly to the key premise of BBE, GHG emissions are not reduced significantly compared to fossil fuel usage. This is because of supply chain emissions and land usage emissions. What is the difference?

Supply Chain emissions refers to the reduction of emissions using bio fuels


Land use change emission refers to the changing of a land's purpose to reduce the emissions.

What are drivers of BBE? And which is key causes local production?

Drivers of BBE are:

* Climate change
* Income farmers
* Innovation and economic growth (Key causes local production)
The idea in innovation and growth is that BBE will develop new jobs with modern profiles, and export technologies to other places when developed here.
* Energy and resource security

In the lecture it was stated that the challenges for BBE depend on:

- Business models
- Perspective (global vs local)
- Trade-offs

What are the future hopes for BBE?

- Dietry
- Algea
- Second generation feedstocks e.g. Grass and wood

How can sustainability be ensured?

- Defining what sustainability for BBE is
- How it can be integrated

What are enablers of BBE?

- Supportive policies
- Sustainable use of resources

How is the bio economy defined?

The bio economy is defined as the sustainable production and conversion of biomass into a range of food, fibre, feed, health and industrial products and energy.

What is the Bioeconomy web?

The bioeconomy web refers to individual actors that are mutually dependent on each other for raw materials and energy. Creating this needs a strong development across all sectors; if one is left behind, it means it weakens the entire web. To let the bio economy grow, a more cooperative approach is needed.

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