Policy review for biomass value chains in the European bioeconomy

Q1 Social Sciences
Asha Singh, Thomas Christensen, Calliope Panoutsou
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Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to review existing European policies relevant to the biomass value chains and examine how their main objectives support or align with the five core objectives (pillars) identified under the 2018 Bioeconomy Strategy. The paper also discusses key challenges that restrict the compliance of the policies to the Strategy, identifies policy gaps and provides recommendations for future policy formation.

A structured review was conducted of over ninety policies relevant to the biomass, bioprocessing and biobased products. The value chain approach was used as a tool to harmonise these sectors under a common bioeconomy framework and provides an understanding of how key activities and challenges are being addressed. Several gaps were identified in relation to these challenges in each stage, at land use stage a lack of European-wide harmonised characterisation of marginal land and integration among sectoral policies targeting soil quality and financial measures incentivising the uptake of sustainable soil improvers. At the biomass production stage, inadequate policy support was found for waste mobilisation and valorisation. Furthermore, there is a lack of policy provisions and financial support improving collaborations among value chain actors to overcome the complexity associated with harmonising biomass logistics and conversion processes. Finally, regarding the end use stage, policy interventions targeting the distribution and standardisation of the wide, available range of biobased products and services remain limited. Based on this gap analysis, a set of recommendations was produced outlining ways in which policy measures can be updated through introducing either financial, regulatory or information provisions, or formulating novel policies altogether. These recommendations were made following the value chain analysis approach, which addresses specific challenges in relation to the five core objectives of the Bioeconomy Strategy, with the aim of further increasing the level of coherence among sectoral policies.

欧洲生物经济中生物质价值链的政策回顾
本文的主要目的是回顾与生物质价值链相关的现有欧洲政策,并研究其主要目标如何支持或与2018年生物经济战略确定的五个核心目标(支柱)保持一致。本文还讨论了限制政策遵守《战略》的主要挑战,确定了政策差距,并为未来的政策形成提供了建议。对与生物质、生物加工和生物基产品有关的90多项政策进行了有组织的审查。价值链方法被用作在共同的生物经济框架下协调这些部门的工具,并提供了如何解决关键活动和挑战的理解。在每个阶段,与这些挑战相关的一些差距被确定,在土地利用阶段,缺乏欧洲范围内对边际土地的统一特征,以及针对土壤质量的部门政策之间的整合,以及鼓励采用可持续土壤改良剂的财政措施。在生物质生产阶段,发现对废物动员和增值的政策支持不足。此外,缺乏政策规定和财政支持,以改善价值链参与者之间的合作,以克服与协调生物质物流和转化过程相关的复杂性。最后,关于最终使用阶段,针对广泛可用的生物基产品和服务的分配和标准化的政策干预仍然有限。根据这一差距分析,提出了一套建议,概述了通过引入金融、监管或信息规定或完全制定新政策来更新政策措施的方法。这些建议是根据价值链分析方法提出的,该方法解决了与生物经济战略的五个核心目标相关的具体挑战,旨在进一步提高部门政策之间的一致性。
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Global Transitions
Global Transitions Social Sciences-Development
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