Abstract
The threats of climate change, food security, resource depletion and energy security are driving society towards a sustainable low-carbon future. Within this paradigm, biomass plays an invaluable role in meeting the food, feed, energy and material needs of future generations. Current EU thinking advocates biomass for high-value materials, which is not aligned with EU public policy support for ‘lower value’ bioenergy applications. ‘High-technology’ and ‘no bioenergy mandate’ pathways explore market conditions that generate a more equitable distribution between competing biomass conversion technologies and competing biomass and fossil technologies. In achieving greater equity, these pathways ease biomass market tensions; enhance EU food security; improve EU biobased trade balances; accelerate biomaterial sectors’ output performance and favour macroeconomic growth. Moreover, an additional 80% increase in the oil price signals a tipping point in favour of first generation biofuels, whilst simultaneously boosting output in advanced material conversion technologies even more than the high-technology pathway.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 158-177 |
| Journal | Economic Systems Research |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 1 Jan 2019 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2019 |
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Keywords
- Bioeconomy
- CGE
- foresight study
- MAGNET
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Levelling the playing field for EU biomass usage. / Philippidis, George; Bartelings, Heleen; Helming, John; M’barek, Robert; Smeets, Edward; van Meijl, Hans.
In: Economic Systems Research, Vol. 31, No. 2, 04.2019, p. 158-177.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
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