Too valuable for car and heating

More targeted use of renewable resources

Authors: Heiko Keller, Nils Rettenmaier

The bioeconomy can be a central building block for the transformation of our economy, which is largely based on coal, oil and gas. However, renewable resources and synthetic carbon compounds are scarce and expensive. They should be used in areas such as the chemical industry - and not as energy sources. For the transition from a fossil-based economy to a bioeconomy to succeed, fossil carbon must also become more expensive. The ifeu is now presenting the results of four pioneering studies.