Bioeconomy from a Nordic Bioeconomy Potentials for new Growth Danish Agriculture & Food Council December 1 st. 2014 Insert header (e.g. organisation's name) or Footer via: 'show' / Header and footer' / insert text / 'OK' 1
Co-operation Official Nordic co-operation is the remit of: The Nordic Council the inter-parliamentary forum The Nordic Council of Ministers the intergovernmental body Bioeconomy from a Nordic 2
The Countries Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland and the three autonomous territories: the Faroe Islands, Greenland and Åland A region of approx. 25 million people And 8 official languages Bioeconomy from a Nordic 3
Nordic Synergy The essence of the Nordic Council and Nordic Council of Ministers work is to generate synergies that benefit the citizens of the Region Nordic milestones: Passport Union (1957) Helsinki Treaty (1962) Agreement on a fully integrated labour market (1982) Nordic Language Convention (1987) The Swan Label (1989) Free access to higher education (1996) New Nordic Food (2004) Bioeconomy from a Nordic 4
From policy to action - Building an agenda - Sustainable management of biological resources - Bioeconomy as a driver for rural/local economic development - Bioeconomy as a sustainable choice circular economy - Resource driven vs. Process driven, focus on value chains. Marine, agriculture and forestry. Bieoconomy from a Nordic 5
From policy to action - Creating movement: - From sectors to systems, from concept to reality TOBE 2014 - Lets get out of the Silos! - From reactive to proactive - What if. - Top-down meets bottom-up Bieoconomy from a Nordic 6
From policy to action Ask not what the Regions can do for the Bioeconomy, but what the Bioeconomy can do for the Regions. Bieoconomy from a Nordic 7
From policy to action - Catalyse, initiate, facilitate - Initiating acting facilitating change Bieoconomy from a Nordic 8
The NordBio Programme Nordic Bioeconomy Panel The Icelandic Chairmanship for the Nordic Council of Ministers 2014 seeks to establish a Nordic Policy and Strategy Forum for the Nordic bioeconomy - Nordic Bioeconomy Panel - NBP Multidisiplinary Consultation Forum To promote and coordinate Nordic cooperation and mapping opportunities for international s and development and strengthening the Nordic voice in international policy formulation and cooperation. The aim is to present a mandate and structure of the NBP to the Nordic ministers of cooperation in February 2015. Bioeconomy from a Nordic 9
EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region - as Horizontal Action Leader for Bioeconomy within in the EUSBSR. - Ten steps towards realizing the Bioeconomy in the BSR - Initiating and facilitating: Stockholm, November 2013, Tallinn April 2014, Berlin September 2014, Warsaw February/March 2015. Bieoconomy from a Nordic 10
Ten steps towards realizing the Bioeconomy in the BSR - Local capital - Proteins green gold of the BSR - Markets for woody biomass and wood-based energy around the BSR - Baltic Phoenix Sustainable recovery and recycling of nutrients - Bio-resources for innovative and sustainable non-food uses - Developing cross-cutting stakeholder involvement for realizong the bioeconomy - Blue biotech - Biogas Bieoconomy from a Nordic 11
EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, further development - With BSR Bioeconomy the will facilitate a concerted effort to improve Capacity for innovation as well as Management of natural resources in the BSR and with that accelerate the transistion towards a sustainable bioeconomy. - 1. Bioeconomy policies and policy coherence - 2. Private sector engagement - 3. Research, Technology and Innovation - 4. Civil society - 5. Communication Bieoconomy from a Nordic 12
Thank you for your attention! Contact: Mads Randbøll Wolff, Senior adviser mrw@norden.org Geir Oddsson, Senior adviser geod@norden.org Bieoconomy from a Nordic 13