AGRO-ENERGY: GROWTH POTENTIAL OF THE GREEN INDUSTRY

Abstract

Our present economy, which is strongly dependent on fossil raw materials, is gradually changing into an economy based mainly on renewable raw materials. The European Union has given a very strong political signal to kick-start a green economy all across Europe. The European climate strategy and the transition to a decarbonized economy indeed call for a deep transformation of the production, storage and consumption in the Community. This process either can be described as a transition, generally defined as the process of changing from one state or condition to another, or in a more restricted sense, a transition leading to an entirely new way of fulfilling societal needs. In this process, we are referring to the two sides of the human-nature relation - the principle of ecological dependence, and the principle of ecological impact.