Unfolding the Future – 2050 Roadmap to a low-carbon bioeconomy

Unfolding the Future – 2050 Roadmap to a low-carbon bioeconomySustainability

Unfolding the Future – 2050 Roadmap to a low-carbon bioeconomy

The Confederation of European Paper Industries (CEPI) unfolded the future when launching their 2050 Roadmap to a low-carbon bio-economy. The roadmap attempts to lay out the future of the forest fibre industry and its potential to meet future consumer demands, stay competitive and deliver a CO2 emission reduction. This initiative addresses the European Commission roadmap, which modeled an overall industrial reduction of 80% in CO2 by 2050. The CEPI roadmap explores the technical, financial and resource constraints that lie ahead, and the policy framework that will be needed to tackle them. The forest fibre industry has the ambition to be at the heart of the 2050 bio-economy, an essential platform for a range of bio-based products and the recycling society. This roadmap has been developed by representatives of all parts of the pulp and paper and wood products sector. Both companies and national associations have been involved. The starting points are the 2050 society and the 2050 consumer and how the sector will have to change to meet their future demands. Faced with external constraints on carbon and resources, we unfold the path to 2050 for technology, raw materials and finance, and consider the framework conditions and policies that need be in place to allow for the transition. The forest fibre industry combines the pulp, paper, board and wood products industry and in Europe consist of 200,000 companies, employing 1.9 million people, and providing around 75 billion euro in added value to the EU economy.