BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:-//WordPress - MECv7.30.1//EN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://ebcd.org/ X-WR-CALNAME:EBCD X-WR-CALDESC:European Bureau for Conservation and Development X-WR-TIMEZONE:UTC BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:UTC X-LIC-LOCATION:UTC BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:UTC DTSTART:20260521T024403 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H X-MS-OLK-FORCEINSPECTOROPEN:TRUE BEGIN:VEVENT CLASS:PUBLIC UID:MEC-47248f6127fcae1dd2b9a47d43aa4c9d@ebcd.org DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20220630T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Brussels:20220630T170000 DTSTAMP:20220504T184346Z CREATED:20220504 LAST-MODIFIED:20230125 PRIORITY:5 SEQUENCE:0 TRANSP:OPAQUE SUMMARY:Online Event: Compost and Digestate in the Circular Bioeconomy: Healthy Soil for Healthy Life DESCRIPTION:Thursday 30th June 2022, 15:00 – 17:00 CEST\n Online Event\n \nHosted by MEP Sarah Wiener\nVice-Chair of the European Parliament Intergroup on ‘Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’\n \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER ( https://ebcd.webex.com/ebcd/onstage/g.php?MTID=e6d4e77243748851a32f68f0373d2605c )\n \nSteadily and alarmingly, soil resources are depleting faster than the nutrients can be recycled. If this trajectory does not change, soil erosion, combined with the effects of climate change, will present a huge risk to global food security over next decades.\nSimultaneously, despite the adoption of climate, environmental and resource efficiency policies have been adopted, contemporary societies consume more raw materials yearly than what planet Earth can regenerate over an one-year time. Therefore, the need to decouple economic growth from resource use is not a matter of if, but a matter of when, as all European countries are required to recycle 55 % of household waste by 2025, 60 % by 2030 and 65% by 2035, implement separate collection or source separation of bio-waste by 2023, cut at least by 40 % the greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, and achieve soil health by sustainable land management and soil restoration by 2050.\nTowards this direction, governments should develop programs aimed at stopping land degradation processes and bringing degraded lands back into production, of which recycled organic matter application should be a key component.\nThe development of separate collection schemes for bio-waste and high-quality recycling has made available a large quantity of mature, safe and healthy compost and digestate estimated to be in the region of 12 to 16 million tonnes every year across Europe. Compost and digestate are effective soil improvers, however, farmers struggle to use them properly for technical and economic reasons.\nDuring this event organized under the umbrella of the European Parliament Intergroup on ‘Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’ in collaboration with the European Compost Network (ECN), experts will report on the role bio-waste plays in the circular bioeconomy, to produce high-quality compost and digestate-based products being used in sustainable agricultural management systems. The aim is to open the debate on the need for a renovated attention to soil quality, soil health and soil fertility at national, regional and European level in relation to the Soil Health Law, the Common Agricultural Policy and the initiative on Sustainable Carbon Cycles in relation to a circular economy in Europe.\n \nFINAL AGENDA\n \n\n15:00 – 15:10: Opening remarks by MEP Sarah Wiener, Vice-Chair of the European Parliament Intergroup on ‘Climate Change, Biodiversity and Sustainable Development’\n\n\n15:10 – 15:15: Introductory remarks on “From bio-waste to high quality recycled organic products” by Kristel Vandenbroek (Chair of ECN)\n\n\n15:15 – 15:30: Presentation on ‘Compost and Digestate in the Circular Bioeconomy: Sustainable Carbon Cycles and Healthy Soils’ presented by Jane Gilbert, ISWA WG Chair ‘Biological treatment of Waste’ and former ECN Chair\n\n\n15:30 – 16:15: Panel discussion with the participation of:\n\n\nSilvija Aile, Deputy Head of B3 Unit “From Waste To Resources”, DG ENV, European Commission\nEnzo Favoino, Scientific Co-ordinator, Zero Waste Europe\nAlberto Confalonieri, Task Group Chair on ‘Soil & Organic Matter’, ECN\nHenk Vooijs, Market Development Consultant, Novamont\nSabine Houot, Researcher, INRAE\nArnaud Schwartz, Rapporteur of NAT Opinion on the EU Soil Strategy for 2030, European Economic and Social Committee\n\n\n16:15 – 16:25: Reactions from MEPs (5’ per speaker):\nMEP Elsi Katainen\nMEP Manuela Ripa\n\n\n16:25 – 16:55: Q&A session with the audience\n\n\n16:55 – 17:00: Closing remarks by MEP Maria Noichl (video-message intervention)\n\n\n \n\n \n \n \nVenue\nWebex\nDocuments of the meeting\nFinal Agenda – ‘Compost and Digestate in the Circular Bioeconomy;Healthy Soil for Healthy Life’ ( https://ebcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Final-Agenda-Compost-and-Digestate-in-the-Circular-BioeconomyHealthy-Soil-for-Healthy-Life.pdf )\nWebinar Recording ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RuRgmJfYh8 )\nWebinar Report – Compost and Digestate in the Circular Bioeconomy-Healthy Soil for Healthy Life ( https://ebcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Webinar-Report-Compost-and-Digestate-in-the-Circular-Bioeconomy-Healthy-Soil-for-Healthy-Life.pdf )\nRegistration Report ( https://ebcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Registration-Report-3.pdf )\nDr. Jane Gilbert – PDF Presentation ( https://ebcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/Dr.-Jane-Gilbert-PDF-Presentation.pdf )\n URL:https://ebcd.org/events/online-event-compost-and-digestate-in-the-circular-bioeconomy-healthy-soil-for-healthy-life/ CATEGORIES:EP INTERGROUP ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://ebcd.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/REM_30.06.06-053.jpg END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR