Michal Dlugosz,
The EU is the first major economy which declared the binding target of reaching climate neutrality by 2050. Achieving this target requires the comprehensive economic transition marked by the rapid phase down of fossil fuels and redesign of the entire economic system. While in general, the importance the renewable technologies is primordial to obtains these goals, situation of bioenergy is more complicated. On the one hand, bioenergy is the main source of the renewable energy in the EU, particularly important for the decarbonisation of the hard to abate sectors like heating and transport. On the other, the future of the bioenergy sector will depend on its sustainability performance, which currently is becoming a highly debated political issue in Brussels. In my presentation I will focus on current share of the bioenergy in the energy mix of the EU, its competitiveness via other clean solution and growth trajectories based on the national planning and the EU modelling. In the second part I will focus on the key policies and legal acts which will shape the future regulatory framework and determine the regulatory environment for bioenergy deciding upon future development of bioenergy sector.
