About progress and steps to make the biobased economy a reality.

Track 4 (see below topics) might be of particular interest for the Green Finance Community of Practice

More information on their website

Taking place over two and a half days, ECO-BIO 2018 will comprise plenary talks and forum discussions, parallel sessions, posters and an exhibition together with optional company visits.

Still time to present a poster: Submit your abstract by 19 January 2018.  Submit abstracts here

One of the main challenges of today’s society involves the much needed transition from an almost exclusively fossil-based economy to a more sustainable one, in order to counteract and reduce the emissions of greenhouse gases and associated rise in global warming.

Topics include:

Track 1: Scientific Discovery

• new feedstocks (algae, specialty crops, etc.)
• industrial microbiology
• synthetic biology
• nanobioscience
• metagenomics and mining, computational engineering
• bioactive compounds from nature

Track 2: (Industrial) Technological Development

• pretreatment
• renewable products (high performance materials, specialty chemicals, building blocks, food, feed & nutritional ingredients, health, personal & home care, etc)
• bioenergy
• consolidated bioprocessing/integration and intensification of bioprocesses
• use of residual streams (MSW, CO/CO₂, ….)

Track 3: Impact assessment of biobased solutions

• ecological aspects (soil, water, human, climate)
• soil and crop management, nutrient cycles
• social, environmental and economic impacts
• biomass supply
• policy and public perception

Track 4: Innovation and valorisation

• biorefinery concepts
• new value chains/clusters
• start-ups/SMEs
• green tech capital/investors

ECO-BIO 2016 Special Issue now available
The Special Issue 'Challenges in Building a Sustainable Biobased Economy' (ECO-BIO 2016) is now published. View on ScienceDirect here.