Bioeconomy Morning Session

Working Session

Building Robust Bioeconomies: Considering Scale & Attracting Investment

Thursday, May 22, 2025
Convention Center at the Federal University of Acre
Times: 09:00 to 10:30 and 11:30 to 13:00

  1. Overall Objective: Efforts to create robust and sustainable bioeconomies that can provide broad economic opportunities to Amazonian people, while supporting natural ecosystems, face many challenges. To date, many such projects have struggled to achieve sufficient scale to provide viable alternatives to environmentally destructive economic activities. This session will explore what is the agenda and the investments required for building and coordinating robust and sustainable bioeconomies at subnational, national, and regional scales.
  2. Specific Objectives: To produce a roadmap detailing needs and opportunities, we will use the guiding question: “What is needed to develop executable projects that are investment-ready and scalable for a robust, sustainable Amazon bioeconomy?”
  3. Overview: This will be a two-part session. The first part will feature brief comments from experts who are working across GCF Task Force jurisdictions to develop bioeconomy plans and implement specific strategies. Specifically, we will hear perspectives from state government leaders, actors working across jurisdictions and territories, and bioeconomy investment partners. After the opening panel comments, we will divide into working groups by language that allow different actors to reflect, from their perspectives, on the overall guiding question as well as on these three related questions: 
  • What are the main challenges impeding development of sustainable bioeconomy-based supply chains at local to regional scales? 
  • What key enabling conditions need to be in place to overcome these challenges (infrastructure, investment, regulatory environment, education, etc)?
  • What are key opportunities at state, national, and regional levels? What opportunities are we currently missing? 
  • Where do we see strategic areas to coordinate efforts across jurisdictional scales to strengthen and scale bioeconomy supply chains?  

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