EPA Research Impact Case Study: A roadmap for Ireland’s first Bioeconomy Action Plan
Summary: EPA Research 2030 is designed to be agile, responsive, and flexible, and aims to deliver timely and impactful research to support policy and decision making, and to address knowledge gaps in existing and emerging environmental pressures. The EPA Research Impact Case Studies provide examples and insights from EPA-funded projects and the impact they have achieved.
Impact Summary
• Provided a roadmap for a sustainable and circular bioeconomy in Ireland out to 2050.
• Directly informed Ireland’s first National Bioeconomy Action Plan (2023-2025).
• Highlighted the economic, environmental and social opportunities from new biobased innovations.