MMM Luonnonvara- ja biotalouspäivät 2017

1. EFI Suomen biotalouden kehittäjänä
Prof. Pekka Leskinen*
*Head of Bioeconomy Programme
17.10.2017
European Forest Institute

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Presentation outline
1. About EFI
2. European forests and CSF
3. New possibilities of forest bioeconomy
4. Some forthcoming seminars

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EFI strategy 2025 and how we implement it

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Owners of EFI
Affiliate members
(outside of Europe)
(July 2017)
 Currently, a total of 28 European
States have ratified the
Convention on EFI.
 EFI has 112 member
organisations in 37 countries (July
2017)

5. Expertise and knowhow at EFI
In 2016, 114 staff members from 26
different countries worked at EFI in
our offices across Europe as well as in
Malaysia and China.
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Saku Ruusila

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Strategic bioeconomy topics at EFI
• Bioeconomy markets:
• The future markets of increasingly diversified and cross-sectoral forest-based products and services as a
result of socioeconomic and policy changes.
• Sustainable bioeconomy:
• Sustainability impact assessment and monitoring of forest-based products and services value chains.
• Implications to sustainable forest management (SFM):
• The future demand and supply of forest products, forest biomass and ecosystem services, and their
implications for sustainable forest management as well as for afforestation and plantation forestry.
• Policy and governance aspects:
• The role of innovation and digitalization, and policies affecting sustainable bioeconomy development.

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Topics:
• Future investment flows between Europe and China
• The development of Chinese and European markets for forest-based products and services
• Future development of industrial bioeconomy sectors in China, e.g., energy, textile,
construction, chemicals, and food
• Global and European forest related sustainability implications as result of the development in
China
• Future role of wood and urban forestry in Chinese cities in a context of increasing
urbanisation and climate change
• Policy developments and needs, such as synergies and trade-offs between European and
Chinese forest-based sector policies and governance developments.
Now interviews, starts around 1.1.2018.
The European Forest Institute is seeking a Senior Expert on
China-Europe Forest Bioeconomy

8. Forests, our most important biological infrastructure
Covering 43% of EU land
 Key for the resilience of our continent:
biodiversity, water and soil
 Climate change mitigation effect equivalent
to 13% of CO2 emissions
 Main source of non-food, non-feed
renewable biological resources
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Emission pathway consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees by 2100 (Rockström et al. 2017):

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 Use triple S impacts – sink, substitution and storage.
 Create new policy incentives.
 Country differences: tailoring policies and incentives at the regional
level – one size does not fit all.
 Finding synergies between climate and other benefits (e.g.,
bioeconomy, biodiversity, recreation).
The concept of Climate Smart Forestry (CSF)

11. What CSF could contribute
• Current annual mitigation effect from EU forests via contributions to the
forest sink, material substitution and energy substitution is estimated to be
569 Mt CO2/yr (i.e. 13% of total EU emissions).
• According to Nabuurs et al., it would be possible to achieve an additional
mitigation impact through CSF of 442 Mt CO2/yr by 2050.
• Total impact of forest and the forest sector on the atmosphere from a
climate perspective (accounting rules are not followed as such).

12. New possibilities of forest bioeconomy
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• Wood construction
• Wood-based textiles
• Bioplastics

13. Wood construction
• For each ton of wood products used instead
concrete, there could be an emission
reduction of 2 tons of CO2.
• When assuming 100% market share of all
buildings in Europe with 50% share of wood
of building mass, this implies a 3.5%
reduction of total EU CO2 emissions.
• In addition to wood construction, reducing the
impacts of other building materials such as
concrete and steel are needed.
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Erkki Oksanen, LUKE

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15. Wood-based fibres for a sustainable textile industry
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 Global production of textile fibres:
 93 Mt (2016)
 250Mt (2050)
Zsolt Nyulaszi_FotoliaZsolt Nyulaszi_FotoliaSources: ICAC, CIRFS, TFY, FEB, Lenzing estimates
 Carbon footprint from wood-based textile
fibres can be up to 9 times lower than
synthetic ones

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Dissolving pulp consumption outlook to 2030
World demand to
grow by 3.9%/yr,
driven mainly by
China
North America
Source: Pöyry 2015
Million tonnes
Rest of Asia
Japan
Europe
North America

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The plastics economy: an inconvenient truth?
 Global production of plastics: 311 Mt
 Resulting in 390 Mt CO2 and 8 Mt of
plastics to the ocean every year
By 2050, demand for plastics 400% higher:
- 20% of oil consumption
- 15% of CO2 emissions
- More plastic than fish in oceans
The new plastics economy, Ellen MacArthur Foundation

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The case for bioplastics
 Only 0.6% of total production are
bio-based plastics
 Biobased plastics result in lower
carbon footprint
 Main challenge: not cost-
competitive
 30-100% more costly
 Operations not yet at large
scale and not optimised

19. Leading the way to
a European circular bioeconomy strategy
by
L. Hetemäki, M. Hanewinkel,
B. Muys, M. Ollikainen, M.
Palahí and A. Trasobares
with advisory and foreword by
Esko Aho, Cristina Narbona
Ruiz, Göran Persson and
Janez Potočnik
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Thanks!
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