{"id":58725,"date":"2018-11-30T07:20:51","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T06:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/?p=58725"},"modified":"2018-11-26T15:17:06","modified_gmt":"2018-11-26T14:17:06","slug":"video-of-the-week-people-at-the-forefront-of-the-nordic-bio-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/video-of-the-week-people-at-the-forefront-of-the-nordic-bio-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of the week: People at the forefront of the Nordic bio-economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBio is the most complicated thing in the world. If you copy and cope with nature you can have new materials with new functions, longer lifetimes, stronger robustness, less resources, and less toxicity in producing etc.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nordic countries continue to set increasingly ambitious targets to reduce their dependence on fossil fuels in their desire to limit greenhouse gas emissions. For instance, countries such as Denmark, Finland and Sweden have all increased their commitments to bio-energy in recent years. Nordic environment and climate ministers have also pledged to strongly implement the 2015 Paris climate change agreement.<\/p>\n<p>There are also companies and individuals within these countries who are attempting their very best to drive the bio-economy. To celebrate this, the Nordic Council of Ministers have recently released a short video series on the bio-economy in the Baltic Sea Region (BSR).<\/p>\n<p>The videos are funded by the European Commission-backed Interreg Baltic programme and are a part of the Nordic Council\u2019s activities as \u201cPriority Area Coordinators for Bioeconomy\u201d in EU\u2019s strategy for the BSR.<\/p>\n<p>Elin Larsson (@ElinLarsson3), sustainability director at Scandinavian fashion brand Filippa K (@Filippa_K), is featured in the trailer video. She works with sustainable textile materials, such as paper pulp. Speaking in the video, Larsson says: \u201cChange is very scary for everyone. The whole industry knows what it needs to transform.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"BorlabsCookie _brlbs-cb-youtube\">\n<div class=\"_brlbs-content-blocker\">\n<div class=\"_brlbs-embed _brlbs-video-youtube\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"_brlbs-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/borlabs-cookie\/assets\/images\/cb-no-thumbnail.png\" alt=\"YouTube\"> <\/p>\n<div class=\"_brlbs-caption\">\n<p>By loading the video, you agree to YouTube&#8217;s privacy policy.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/policies.google.com\/privacy?hl=en&amp;gl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Learn more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"_brlbs-btn _brlbs-icon-play-white\" href=\"#\" data-borlabs-cookie-unblock role=\"button\">Load video<\/a><\/p>\n<p><label><input type=\"checkbox\" name=\"unblockAll\" value=\"1\" checked> <small>Always unblock YouTube<\/small><\/label><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"borlabs-hide\" data-borlabs-cookie-type=\"content-blocker\" data-borlabs-cookie-id=\"youtube\"><script type=\"text\/template\">PGlmcmFtZSB0aXRsZT0iTWFkZSBvZiBDb3VyYWdlIOKAkyBUcmFpbGVyIiB3aWR0aD0iNTAwIiBoZWlnaHQ9IjI4MSIgc3JjPSJodHRwczovL3d3dy55b3V0dWJlLW5vY29va2llLmNvbS9lbWJlZC9RdEljbGZHT1dsYz9mZWF0dXJlPW9lbWJlZCIgZnJhbWVib3JkZXI9IjAiIGFsbG93PSJhY2NlbGVyb21ldGVyOyBhdXRvcGxheTsgY2xpcGJvYXJkLXdyaXRlOyBlbmNyeXB0ZWQtbWVkaWE7IGd5cm9zY29wZTsgcGljdHVyZS1pbi1waWN0dXJlOyB3ZWItc2hhcmUiIHJlZmVycmVycG9saWN5PSJzdHJpY3Qtb3JpZ2luLXdoZW4tY3Jvc3Mtb3JpZ2luIiBhbGxvd2Z1bGxzY3JlZW4+PC9pZnJhbWU+<\/script><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Christian Patermann, former director at the European Commission and advisor to the German government for bio-economy, also known as the \u201cfather\u201d of the bio-economy, is also featured in the video.<\/p>\n<p>He says: \u201cBio is the most complicated thing in the world. The area is more sophisticated and difficult than others. If you copy and cope with nature you can have new materials with new functions, longer lifetimes, stronger robustness, less resources, and less toxicity in producing etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026Why are we not trying to have an economy which is based primarily on biological resources \u2013 our greatest treasure is wood.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Nordic Council of Ministers and the Nordic Council are the main forums for official Nordic co-operation, which involves Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Greenland and \u00c5land. The Nordic prime ministers want the Nordic Region to be the most integrated region in the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cBio is the most complicated thing in the world. 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