The National Bioeconomy Strategy provides a framework for the sustainable tapping and use of biological resources and environmentally and eco-friendly production procedures across all sectors of the economy. The German government is supporting this move towards an economy that is based to a greater extent on renewable resources, as well as being more resource-efficient and more focused on resource cycle management. The aim is to achieve a biobased sustainable economic model that is geared to natural material cycles. The bioeconomy is the knowledge-based generation, tapping and use of biological resources, processes and systems, in order to provide products, procedures and services across all sectors of the economy for a viable economic system for the future.
What we need is to live and work more on the basis of renewable resources. The aim must be to reduce the use of fossil resources such as coal and oil. If we are to retain the living standard we enjoy today, and enable future generations to live in dignity, we will have to change the way we live. The aim is to reduce consumption of fossil resources, while ensuring that renewable resources play a greater role in everyday life. To foster a more sustainable economy, the German government has produced a National Bioeconomy Strategy, which has now been adopted by the Cabinet.
