Context and motives for the formation of the BIOECONOMY Cluster

The EU has established a clear legally binding framework for achieving the goals of the 2015 Paris Agreement, and ambitious goals for 2030 have been set in terms of renewable energy sources, energy efficiency and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Defining these goals, similar to the EU member states, the contracting parties of the Energy Community, which includes the Republic of Serbia, implement through the preparation of Integrated National Energy and Climate Plans, an integral part of which are obligations in terms of monitoring the aforementioned areas and periodic reporting on the situation in them . In addition, Serbia is a signatory to the Sofia Declaration on the Green Agenda for the Western Balkans, which also obliges us to prepare this document for the period from 2021 to 2030, including the perspective until 2050. Unfortunately, this work is still a work in progress

The transition to a modern, resource-efficient, advanced and competitive economy, in which health and well-being are priorities, requires deep and broad actions around the world and in all sectors of the economy. The bioeconomy strategy (A sustainable bioeconomy for Europe: strengthening the connection beetwen economy, society and the environment-Updated Bioeconomy – Oct. 2018), with its systemic perspective, plays an important role in achieving climate neutrality and ecological, economic and social sustainability. The bioeconomy includes all sectors and related services and investments that produce, use, process, distribute or consume biological resources, including ecosystem services.
Bioeconomy policies take a cross-sectoral perspective to improve policy coherence and identify and address trade-offs, for example on land and biomass needs. Bioeconomy policies contribute to the construction and implementation of this concept by dealing with all three dimensions of sustainability:
(1) Environment: management of land and biological resources within the ecological boundary;
(2) Economy: sustainable value chains and consumption; and
(3) Society: social justice and just transition