Recent years have seen rapid acceleration of multilateral initiatives in the bioeconomy, such as the G20 Initiative on Bioeconomy, the International Bioeconomy Forum, FAO/UNFF-COLI Initiative on Sustainable Forest-Based Bioeconomy, the UNFCCC COP30 Bioeconomy Challenge and UNFCCC COP30 Building For Forests initiative. Accompanying this evolution is a growing and dynamic need for input and expertise from the collective of academic institutions engaged in bioeconomy research around the world.

As the world’s oldest international bioeconomy research organization, and on the occasion of its 30th Annual Conference, ICABR convenes high-level representatives of these major initiatives for an in-depth exploration with the ICABR community of these needs.

The results of the session will be published as recommendations for addressing research and education needs in the multilateral bioeconomy space and conveyed to the Global Bioeconomy Summit (Dublin, October 2025) and onwards into UNFCCC COP30 Action Agenda (Bioeconomy Challenge), 2027 proceedings of the G20 Initiative on Bioeconomy (UK Presidency), UNFCCC COP31 (Australia Presidency) and beyond.

Pre-conference details can be found in the program link below