BioMonitor policy scenarios for the European bioeconomy to 2030 and 2050

The BioMonitor project aims to quantify the bioeconomy’s environmental, economic, and social impacts in the EU and its Member States based on a set of scenarios. The BioMonitor scenarios are designed to inform the ongoing policy relevant discussions for the bioeconomy and its sustainable development in the wider European policy context. The aim of the work is to illustrate how different levels of policy ambition can impact on the economic, environmental and social dimensions of sustainability and to quantify the trade-offs and synergies associated with each of these metrics within different bioeconomy ‘futures’. The BioMonitor Reference scenario and the storylines and respective narratives of the alternative scenarios describe policy relevant questions that will be answered in the iomonitor impact assessment.