{"id":16592,"date":"2013-06-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-04T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20130605-03n"},"modified":"2013-06-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-06-04T22:00:00","slug":"dirk-carrez-the-bridge-to-a-biobased-economy-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/dirk-carrez-the-bridge-to-a-biobased-economy-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"Dirk Carrez: The BRIDGE to a biobased economy in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>In a post-petroleum society, biorefineries &#8211; along with the farmers and foresters who source raw materials &#8211; are at the heart of the economy. No matter how you define it, the concept remains the same: converting raw materials into useful products for society. Instead of fossil fuels, the biobased economy employs renewable resources and wastes to produce a series of products useful to society: biofuels, bioenergy, biochemicals, bioplastics and other biomaterials.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The potential social, economic and environmental benefits of this model are substantial across Europe. Farmers and foresters would play a pivotal role in enabling the biobased economy&#8217;s goals of delivering locally-sourced and produced materials, chemicals, fuels, food and feed.<\/p>\n<p><i>&#8230; Full text: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurobiotechnews.eu\/people\/editorial\/2012\/dirk-carrez.html\" >www.eurobiotechnews.eu\/people\/editorial\/2012\/dirk-carrez.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tags: research agenda, PPP, Public-Private Partnership, European Commission, sustainable growth<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>In a post-petroleum society, biorefineries &#8211; along with the farmers and foresters who source raw materials &#8211; are at the heart of the economy. No<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[2317,4514],"class_list":["post-16592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","supplier-european-commission","supplier-european-parliament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16592\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16592"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=16592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}