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Bioeconomy Ireland Week is an annual week-long event to highlight and raise awareness of Ireland’s rapidly emerging bioeconomy

By Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine

Date and time

Mon, 16 Oct 2023 01:30 - 04:30 PDT

Location

Online

About this event

Bioeconomy Ireland Week is an annual week-long event held each October to highlight and raise awareness of Ireland’s rapidly emerging bioeconomy. The celebration is a collaboration of events and awareness raising initiatives involving industry, local and regional communities, primary producers, researchers, NGO's and students throughout Ireland. This years theme is "Empowering Ireland's Bioeconomy for a Greener Tomorrow" , where a broad range of stakeholders from across Ireland’s bioeconomy will demonstrate and share how individually and collectively the bioeconomy is being developed in a sustainable and circular way to address climate action and a healthy environment whilst helping achieve a fair and prosperous society through innovative and collaborative approaches.

Organised by

Department of Agriculture, Food & the Marine

The National Development Plan, Project Ireland 2040, is the government's €116 billion development plan which is underpinned by a 20 year planning framework, highlights the potential of the circular bioeconomy in promoting the more efficient use of renewable resources while supporting economic development and employment in rural Ireland.

As part of Project 2040, and following a public consultation process the government published the first National Policy Statement on the Bioeconomy (March 2018). Through this commitment the government recognises that the bioeconomy is crucial for decarbonisation, sustainability and circularity while also providing an impetus to competiveness, and rural and regional development and employment.

This commitment is further recognised within government strategies, polices such as the Food Vision 2030, Climate Action Plan 2023, Our Rural Future 2021-2025 and Impact 2030.

The Government has mandated an implementation group jointly chaired by the Departments of Agriculture, Food and Marine and Environment, Climate and Communications to address and oversee implementation of a number of major actions including funding actions, in close collaboration with bioeconomy industries and other partners, and to report back regularly on progress and further recommendation to Government.

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