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Joint Research Centre

The European Commission’s in-house science service Sustainability Assessment Unit

Sustainability Issues for the Deployment of Bioeconomy – an S2Biom WP5 Workshop 20.11.2014

Boyan KAVALOV, Constantin CIUPAGEA

JRC – IES - Sustainability Assessment Unit (H08) mission and goals

Foster sustainability principles in EU policies through development/application of an integrated sustainability assessment framework for evidence-based decision support, particularly in supporting the use of policy impact assessment tools

Facilitate systematic consideration of the social, economic, and environmental costs and benefits of EU policy measures based on life cycle thinking Offer consultancy in relation to the use of LCA policy impact assessment tool in the European Commission’s Adopt a spatially resolved approach to integrated sustainability assessment and territorial/regional modelling Support the consistency check of European policies with an integrated baseline scenario tool

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JRC – IES - Sustainability Assessment Unit (H08) mission and goals

Foster sustainability principles in EU policies through development/application of an integrated sustainability assessment framework for evidence-based decision support, particularly in supporting the use of policy impact assessment tools

Support the development of new paths of growth focusing on a wider concept of a competitive and green economy

Applications in the area of raw materials Applications in the area of bioeconomy (e.g. Bioeconomy Observatory) Applications in the area of sustainable buildings and constructions

Boost the economic value of ecosystem services in a context of integrated and efficient management of natural resources

• Mapping, assessments and valuations of ecosystems services
• Support to the EU Biodiversity Strategy

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The Integrated Sustainability Assessment Platform (ISAP)-1

European Platform on Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

assess environmental impacts associated with all the stages of a product's life from-cradle-to-grave covering a wide spectrum of impact categories: climate change, eutrophication, acidification, human and ecotoxicity, etc..

Land Use Integrated Sustainability Assessment Modelling Platform (LUISA)

TERRITORIAL POLICIES- macro scale PRODUCT POLICIES- micro scale

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S2Biom project in brief

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S2Biom = Delivery of sustainable supply of non-food biomass to support a resource-efficient bioeconomy in Europe Aims to cover the whole biomass delivery chain (from primary biomass to end-use) of non-food products and from logistics, pre-treatment to conversion technologies. Facilitate the integrated design and evaluation of optimal biomass delivery chains and networks at European, national, regional and local scale. Three interrelated Themes:

• Theme 1: Methodological approaches, data collection and estimation of sustainable biomass

potentials, resource efficient pathways and optimal supply routes, development of a computerised toolset.

• Theme 2: Building upon the findings of Theme 1, develop a Vision, Strategies and a R&D

roadmap for the sustainable delivery of non-food biomass at local, regional and pan-European level.

• Theme 3: Validates the findings from Themes 1 and 2 and ensure the project outreach via

selected case studies in a sufficient number of regions across Europe.

Goals of the workshop and expected outcome

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Present the adaptation of the EU Environmental Footprint methodology to the specifics of non-food biomass value chains (Task 5.1, led by JRC); Present the country analysis profiles (Task 5.3, led by Imperial College – London and JRC), discuss their outputs and integration into the related research

• f S2Biom (in terms of policy and strategy formation);

Brief about the current status of Task 5.2 (Benchmark and gap analysis of criteria and indicators for legislation, regulations and voluntary schemes at international and EU level, and in selected EU Member States); Outlook for Task 5.4 (Consistent cross-sectoral sustainability criteria & indicators) and Task 5.5 (Guidelines for evaluating bioeconomy value chain sustainability performance in the toolset development)

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Thanks for your attention!

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Constantin Ciupagea & Boyan Kavalov http://sa.jrc.ec.europa.eu/

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