Speaker

10:00  Chemelot InSciTe (nl)
10:50  Région Pays de la Loire (fr)
11:35  Circular Biobased Delta (nl)

“Imagine we live in a sustainable world. A complete transition from fossil feedstock to circular feedstock: Mixed solid waste, plastic waste, bio-residues and crops. Our trash is efficiently collected and processed.

Our land is organized to maximize sustainable biomass production, so in full harmony with the needs of all inhabitants (animals and people): For living space, shelter, leisure, food, materials, fertilizer and fuel, all while enjoying the sun as primary energy source. No more greenhouse gases build-up, no more global warming, only incidental storms, fires and floods. Just imagine…”  Marijn Rikers

Marijn Rijkers will take us on a journey to illustrate how we can realize this imagined world, what are the key factors and considerations, what and where are the trade-offs, the gains, the investments needed to scale-up biobased so that we get to that magical point where we are looking back over our shoulders at the fossil past and surveying ahead of us a resplendent green landscape of the circular, renewable biosociety.

Héloïse Even and Willem Sederel will share with us their visions, strategies, initiatives and achievements to advance and develop the bioeconomy in the Regions.