Integrated Approaches to Biomass Sustainability

Dear Colleagues,

Global efforts to defossilize the economy are gaining momentum in view of fighting climate change and, in all strategies and policies of OECD countries and the IEA, biomass is considered as one of the main sources to replace fossil fuels up to a certain extent. In the EU, the new policies encompassing the Fit-for-55[1] foresee a significant increase in biomass by 2050 from 6% in 2018 to 15% in 2050.

This implies that new crops have to be developed, marginal and abandoned lands must be put into production, new land management systems such as double cropping must be improved, and more intense forestry operations must be fostered while ensuring the sustainability aspects of biomass production and use in a circular economy.

Traditionally, at the European Biomass and Exhibition Conference, all the above issues are usually addressed in several presentations. At the EUBCE 2023, 5‒8 June in Bologna, several presentations and poster articles are going to be presented on the topic.

The scope of the Special Issue is to provide a solid basis for a clear understanding of the above biomass issues with a special focus on innovative biomass production and use in all type of applications and markets. The Special Issue aims to become a global reference on the state of the art on innovative intergraded approaches to biomass sustainability.

The Guest Editor hopes that this Special Issue will set the foundations of a new chapter on biomass sustainability, laying the fundamentals for increased biomass production in the EU and globally.

[1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_3541

Dr. Kyriakos Maniatis
Guest Editor

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• sustainability
• biomass
• biomass cultivation
• biomass applications
• biomaterials
• biochemicals
• circular economy
• integrated approaches
• life cycle analysis