The Sustainable Bioeconomy

Introduction

Hello and welcome to this training course on the Sustainable Bioeconomy.
The resources of our planet used to sustain our peoples with food, water, heat and energy are severely challenged as the world population now, exceeding 8 billion, continues to grow.

Ongoing depletion of the finite resources that fuel our economies, lead to poverty, hunger and unrest.

As humans race to exploit the natural resources in a search for ever diminishing precious metals and fossil fuels, the negative environmental effects can be seen in habitats and diminished biodiversity.

In this training course learners are provided with knowledge to be able to understand the fundamentals of the bioeconomy.

In this training course we will learn to:

– Understand how the fossil fuel economy evolved

– Appreciate the cost of fossil fuel driven growth

– Understand the definition of the bioeconomy and the concepts of sustainability and circularity

– Appreciate the guiding principles in building a sustainable bioeconomy

– Understand the development of the EU Bioeconomy Strategy

– Understand the benefits to stakeholders of a sustainable bioeconomy

– Understand how competing stakeholder needs must be changed

On successful completion of this course all students will be awarded a Certificate of
Completion. This certificate confirms you have completed all the video lessons for
every module and fully met all the requirements of the course.
To achieve this award all the assessment quizzes for each lesson must be passed. The pass grade for each quiz is 80%.You can retake lesson quizzes as often as you like.

The Assessment Method

There’s a quiz at the end of each lesson to test your understanding of the material. To successfully complete this course, you must pass the quiz for each lesson. Once all the lessons have been completed, you can then download and print the People & Process completion certificate.
So let’s get started! In the next lesson entitled “Understanding the Bioeconomy” we will look at the need to transition to a sustainable biobased economic model.