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This is to debate how the bioeconomy might affect our forest and ecosystems. We booked a lovely spot in the nature reserve Uckermärkische Seen close to Berlin that is easy to reach by public transport. This will give us the opportunity to exchange ideas, develop strategies and discuss how to move forward.

Europe is banking on the promises of the bioeconomy, the vision of an economy based of biological resources. Yet, we have already surpassed what can be sustainably supplied and so moving from fossil to bio sources without embedding it in a wider socio-ecological transformation and drastically reducing consumption would be a disaster. This was stressed again in a joint statement by more than 70 environmental and development NGOs from all over the world in March this year.

As the EU Bioeconomy Strategy is updated in 2024, our European Bioeconomy Conference will bring together representatives from NGOs, governments and scientists and from European countries to discuss the potential and risks of the bioeconomy.