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Contents Acknowledgements ................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 3 Authors and contributors ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 3 Abstract .............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 4 1 Introduction..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 The EU Bioeconomy within the political agenda of the new European Commission ................................................. 5 1.2 Why monitor? .................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 5 1.3 What to include in the EU Bioeconomy Monitoring System? ............................................................................................................. 5 1.4 Vision of a “sustainable” bioeconomy ..................................................................................................................................................................... 6 2 Design and conceptual framework .......................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.1 Users and audience ................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 2.2 Categories of indicators in the framework ......................................................................................................................................................... 9 2.2.1 Basic indicators ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 10 2.2.2 Processed indicators ........................................................................................................................................................................................... 10 2.2.3 System level indicators .................................................................................................................................................................................... 11 2.2.3.1 Product-based Life cycle analysis and environmental footprints ............................................................. 11 2.2.3.2 Consumption and consumer footprints ............................................................................................................................... 12 2.2.3.3 Natural capital accounting............................................................................................................................................................... 13 2.2.4 Aggregating indicators ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 13 3 Monitoring at different geographical scales ................................................................................................................................................................ 15 3.1 National and regional-scale indicators ................................................................................................................................................................ 15 3.2 Global scale indicators ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 18 4 Using international criteria to frame the EU Monitoring System ............................................................................................................. 22 4.1 Conceptual framework for monitoring the EU bioeconomy ............................................................................................................ 25 4.1.1 EU Strategy objective 1: Ensuring food and nutrition security................................................................................... 25 4.1.2 EU Strategy objective 2: Managing natural resources sustainably ....................................................................... 27 4.1.3 EU Strategy objective 3: Strengthening European competitiveness and creating jobs ...................... 30 4.1.4 EU Strategy objective 4: Mitigating and adapting to climate change ................................................................. 33 4.1.5 EU Strategy objective 5: Reducing dependence on non-renewable, unsustainable resources, whether sourced domestically or from abroad ................................................................................................................................................ 34 4.1.6 Policy coherence ...................................................................................................................................................................................................... 36 4.1.7 Conceptual framework and SDGs .......................................................................................................................................................... 36 5 Proposed indicators.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 44 5.1 Aggregating indicators ........................................................................................................................................................................................................ 44 5.1.1 Scoreboards and composite indicators ............................................................................................................................................. 44 6 Implementation technicalities.................................................................................................................................................................................................... 46 6.1 Prioritizing key questions and users’ needs 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