Our vision is that our research can make a significant contribution to achieving a climate-neutral society by 2050 at the latest. Closed carbon cycles within the bioeconomy will play a particular role, which will have replaced the fossil economy by then. In order to establish these processes worldwide, DBFZ wants to contribute alongside all PREVENT partners. Our research addresses stakeholders working in science, politics, the economy and wider society in relation to bioenergy, the bioeconomy, as well as climate-neutral supply systems. Negative environmental impacts can only be reduced when global material cycles are successfully closed.
Closing cycles is an essential prerequisite to a sustainable future economic system. DBFZ focusses on two essential material cycles. Firstly, the closed carbon cycles of a functioning bioeconomy that will replace the fossil processes that have prevailed to date. Secondly, DBFZ’s research contributes to closing nutrient cycles – particularly within the urban-rural contrast. Beyond these two cycles, DBFZ also works to provide answers, to recycle various raw materials and to implement experiences learned, in particular in developing and emerging countries.