Topic "Strategies and environmental analysis for the bioeconomy"

This theme considers the transition to low fossil carbon economies. Alternative carbon sources considered include waste biomass or other biomass that does not compete directly with food, atmospheric carbon captured by capture technologies (DAC), and recycled carbon (circular economy). It strives to determine, at the scale of a given territory, the combinations of carbon sources and technologies to convert them into different products and services to be implemented, in order to ensure long-term sustainability. This theme interacts with themes 1-4 and relies on different methodologies, including life cycle analysis, geo-spatial analysis and soil organic carbon simulation, and to a lesser extent energy systems analysis. It includes a variety of research questions and projects concerning both methodological development (e.g. LCA-planetary boundary integration, dynamic LCA) and pathway analyses (e.g. non-fossil methane production with or without biomass, with or without hydrogen production by water electrolysis) and socio-economic issues.