Outline
Introduction
Sets out components of a policy framework for a bioeconomy that countries can use to help identify their relative strengths and weaknesses, fill policy gaps and understand the bigger picture for the international bioeconomy.
Part 1. Biomass sustainability
Identifies barriers and opportunities for achieving biomass sustainability. These are linchpins for solving a central quandary in the bioeconomy: how to reconcile the food and industrial demands of biomass.
Part 2. Biorefinery models and policy
Identifies and analyses recent policies to achieve the elusive goal of fully integrated biorefineries that can use multiple feedstocks and generate multiple products (fuels, chemicals, materials, electricity).
Part 3. Towards bioproduction of materials: Replacing the oil barrel
Argues that realising the potential of biorefining to replace fossil-derived manufacturing will require producing materials at a scale appropriate to society. Policy implications run the gamut from R&D funding to commercialisation.
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