BIOWATER at World Circular Economic Forum
BIOWATER participated in a so-called Accelerator Session under the World Circular Economy Forum in Helsinki on 1 June 2023. Jan Vermaat, co-lead of BIOWATER, presented future scenarios for a Nordic bioeconomy under the session “Limits of a bioeconomy: Sustainable pathways to circular solutions through Nordic co-operation”. Earlier the same day, Eva Skarbøvik, BIOWATER lead, presented a wider overview of our results to the NordForsk Program Committee. See our two presentations from Helsinki, below.
In both sessions, we stressed that the outcome of the green transition will depend on which future pathway we choose to follow. A sustainable pathway, with maximum implementation of environmental mitigation measures and optimising conservation practices in both agriculture and forestry, is in many ways the only pathway to ensure that our freshwater are safeguarded. If we are to reach the targets of the EU Water Framework Directive, this is the pathway to follow. BIOWATER has also found that choosing a sustainable pathway does not need to come at a higher cost than pathways geared towards continuing today’s practices and dependency on fossil fuel. This reveals how valuable clean water is for us: in a landscape with freshwaters of good quality, both nature and people thrive.
Below you can browse through the two presentations: