FIBSUN - Novel fibre value chains and ecosystem services from sustainable feedstocks

为了刺激农村生物经济和工业竞争力，实现减缓气候变化和生物多样性的目标，并提高生产系统的复原力，欧洲联盟需要初级生产和工业方面的先行者。尽管人们普遍认识到迫切需要用可再生能源替代化石原材料，但生物质加工方法和商业模式发展不足，而且对计划周密的新应用的多重效益认识不足，目前制约了环境、经济和社会结果平衡的可持续价值链的实施。FIBSUN瞄准的新型生物纤维价值链的每一步都需要优化，从种植实践、工业流程和商业模式，到了解消费者的需求。使用新型工业原料不得导致不良的土地利用变化，例如将目前用于粮食生产的森林或土地转变为用于纤维生物质生产的土地。相反，相关的土地利用必须旨在减轻荒漠化、污染、洪灾或采矿的有害影响，方法是利用退化的土壤和边际土地培育未得到充分利用的生物质原料，以恢复土壤生产力并增加各种ES的供应。FIBSUN将以多学科和多参与者的方式应对这些挑战，让研究机构、公司和广泛的利益相关者参与一个共同创造的过程，旨在取得成果和长期影响，促进欧盟的绿色转型。

In order to stimulate the rural bioeconomy and industrial competitiveness, achieve climate mitigation and biodiversity targets, and increase the resilience of production systems, the European Union needsforerunners, both in primary production and industry. Despite the widely recognised and urgent need to substitute fossil raw materials with renewables, under-developed biomass processing methods and business models, and poor understanding of the multiple benefits of well-planned, novel applications currently restrict the implementation of sustainable value chains with balanced environmental, economic and social outcomes. Every step in the novel bio-based fibre value chains targeted by FIBSUN need to be optimised, from cultivation practices, industrial processes, and business models, through to understanding the needs of consumers. The use of novel industrial feedstocks must not lead to undesirable land-use changes, such as the conversion of forest or land currently used for food production into land used for fibre biomass production. Instead, the related land use must be designed to alleviate the harmful effects of desertification, contamination, flooding or mining, by using degraded soils and marginal land to cultivate underutilised biomass feedstocks which can restore soil productivity and enhance the provision of diverse ES. FIBSUN will address these challenges using a multidisciplinary and multi-actor approach involving research organisations, companies and a wide range of stakeholders in a co-creational process aiming at outcomes and long-term impacts promoting green transition in the EU.