The European Bioeconomy Alliance (EUBA), of which BioChem Europe is a member, unveils its asks to the next European Commission and Parliament in The Bioeconomy Blueprint – Building a circular and resilient Europe

Industry players and EU institutions need an absolute focus on meeting the bloc’s climate and circularity targets. The bioeconomy, bio-based and bio-derived products contribute to most of these ambitions, as well as to the overall defossilisation of society. The coming years will be critical to accelerate their development and market uptake. The EU agenda must visibly include them in the actions to deliver the climate and industry transition.

BioChem Europe will be present at the 7th edition of the Plant-based Summit in Lille from 13 to 15 June 2023

The first in-person Industrial Biotechnologies Day will take place in Brussels on 4 July 2023. Book your seat!

DG GROW kick starts a series of workshop to discuss opportunities and obstacles to accelerate the uptake of bio-based materials and bio-innovation chemicals

The AGRIFISH Council conclusions on the Bioeconomy are a very positive signal that might be boldened

6 organisations call for a proportionate definition of ‘natural polymers’

A consortium of European bioeconomy actors publish a Vision for a circular bio-society in 2050

The revision of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive needs to recognise the contribution of bio-based content to the circularity of the packaging sector.

Pitture e Vernici (European coatings) publishes an article by Bernard de Galembert challenging the current methodology to measure the carbon footprint of biobased products.

BioChem Europe further reaches out on the need to improve the carbon accounting methodology of the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) thanks to an article in Politico.

9 European associations representing key sectors of the bioeconomy jointly shed light on shortcomings of the Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology.

BioChem Europe welcomes the findings of the new report of the European Commission “EU Bioeconomy progress report” and call to accelerate its implementation.

The current economic and policy context is making the bioeconomy and biobased chemicals more and more relevant. Working together for a carbon neutral circular resilient economy.

In an article published into the Bioplastics Magazine (03/2021 – May/June 2021), BioChem Europe explains why the current Product Environmental Footprint (PEF) methodology must be improved to better account the footprint of biogenic carbon and allocate it to the actors along the bioeconomy value chains.

In response to the growing importance of bio-based renewable raw materials, manufacturers of biomass-derived chemicals created a new sector group within the European Chemical Industry Council (Cefic): Biomass-derived Chemicals Europe (BioChem Europe). The group represents companies using feedstocks based on biomass as their raw materials to produce chemicals.