{"id":39632,"date":"2017-01-09T07:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T06:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=39632"},"modified":"2016-12-30T14:21:02","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T13:21:02","slug":"land-under-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/land-under-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Land Under Pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-39633 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/cover-215x300.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" width=\"215\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2016\/12\/cover-215x300.jpg 215w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2016\/12\/cover-733x1024.jpg 733w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2016\/12\/cover-600x839.jpg 600w, https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/media\/2016\/12\/cover.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 215px) 100vw, 215px\" \/>A number of existing and emerging EU policies and initiatives to green plastics, packaging, fuels and more through plant-based sources are at risk of backfiring with big social and environmental impacts, according to this new report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Substituting fossil-based products for plant-based ones is the core idea of the &#8216;bioeconomy&#8217;, which is promoted in the EU through renewable energy policies and a specific Bioeconomy Strategy, and is likely to be included in future legislation on plastics and packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Governments and industry are promoting the bioeconomy, with the promised benefit of reduced reliance on fossil fuels. However, this report reveals that it can come at a high environmental and social price:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.foeeurope.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resource_use\/2016\/land_under_pressure_policy_briefing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Land Under Pressure: global impacts of the EU bioeconomy <\/a>(PDF-File 2.39 MB)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foeeurope.org\/sites\/default\/files\/resource_use\/2016\/land_under_pressure_policy_briefing.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Policy Briefing: Land Under Pressure.<\/a> (PDF-File 841.17 KB)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of existing and emerging EU policies and initiatives to green plastics, packaging, fuels and more through plant-based sources are at risk of backfiring with big social and environmental impacts, according to this new report. Substituting fossil-based products for plant-based ones is the core idea of the &#8216;bioeconomy&#8217;, which is promoted in the EU [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"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":[5838],"supplier":[5585,3073],"class_list":["post-39632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","supplier-european-union","supplier-friends-of-the-earth-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39632","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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39632"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=39632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}