Bioeconomy Challenge

Transforming 
Principles into Action 

Transforming 
Principles 
into Action 

The Bioeconomy Challenge aims to turn the G20 High-Level Principles into concrete actionable strategies. Join civil society, companies, and communities to co-create a sustainable and inclusive global bioeconomy.

What is the
Bioeconomy Challenge?

A three-year initiative, part of the COP30 Action Agenda (Goal 29 – Bioeconomy and Biotechnology), that translates the G20 Bioeconomy High-Level Principles into real outcomes by addressing key gaps in metrics, financing mechanisms, and market development.

As part of the COP30 Action Agenda’s Solution Acceleration Plan, this Challenge is a global effort to build a bioeconomy that is nature positive, drives decarbonization and is socially inclusive.

Why It Matters

We are building the foundations for a global bioeconomy by creating the enabling infrastructure needed to unlock its full potential:

Establishing common international metrics and indicators to measure bioeconomy impact across contexts and build global confidence.

Expanding innovative financing instruments and reducing investment risks so capital reaches where it's needed most and impact territories.

Developing bioeconomy markets in harmony with planetary limits, guaranteeing reduced barriers and expanded access.

Strengthening tools and frameworks to amplify positive impacts for communities and territories.

Ways to
Engage

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Work Together,
Shape the Future of
Bioeconomy

Working Groups are the engine of the Bioeconomy Challenge. They will help us face this challenge.

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Metrics and
Indicators

Metrics and Indicators

Advance towards the development of a harmonized framework of core indicators to measure the economic, social, and environmental performance of the bioeconomy.
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Financing
Mechanisms

Financing Mechanisms

Build a robust, inclusive financial architecture that mobilizes public and private capital into bioeconomy innovation, enterprise, and infrastructure.
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Market
Development
and Trade

Market Development and Trade

Expand global markets and value chains for sustainable bioeconomy products/services while reducing trade barriers via evidence-based policy alignment, market differentiation schemes, and capacity building.
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Sociobioeconomy and Community Benefits

Sociobioeconomy and Community Benefits

Strengthening culturally grounded and environmentally regenerative socio-bioeconomic models led by local and traditional communities, ensuring that their benefits are equitably distributed.
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The 10
High-Level Principles on Bioeconomy

Joining the Bioeconomy Challenge means standing behind a shared vision: a global bioeconomy that delivers prosperity while regenerating nature.

Integrate and promote sustainable development across its economic, social and environmental dimensions, contribute to eradicating hunger and poverty and improving health and well-being, whilst ensuring global food security and nutrition.

Be inclusive and equitable, uphold the rights of all persons, including Indigenous Peoples and members of local communities, promote gender equality and the participation of all stakeholders.

Advance mitigation and adaptation efforts against global climate change, in line with applicable multilateral climate agreements. 

Contribute to the conservation of biodiversity, the sustainable use of its components and the fair and equitable sharing of benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge, subject to national laws and in line with applicable international agreements and instruments.

Advance sustainable consumption and production patterns and the efficient and circular use of biological resources, whilst promoting the restoration and regeneration of degraded areas and ecosystems. 

Be developed through safe, secure and responsible use of science, technology, innovation and traditional knowledge, with potential benefits, risks and impacts assessed scientifically.

Benefit from robust and coherent policy frameworks that foster trade for bioeconomy products and services, market conditions, sustainable business models, decent jobs, local value creation and private sector and civil society participation. 

Utilize transparent, comparable, measurable, inclusive, science-based and context-specific criteria and methodologies to assess their sustainability throughout the value chains.

Be fostered by international collaboration and cooperation that addresses global challenges, leverages complementary strengths, innovation and entrepreneurship and promotes financing, capacity building and sharing of best practices.

Be based on country-specific approaches and implemented in line with national priorities and regional and local circumstances.

Our Roadmap to 2028

A three-phase journey turning the G20 High-Level Principles into measurable action.

2025
Mobilization & Governance
→ Build the foundations for global collaboration.

→ Official launch at COP30 (Belém).
2026–2027
Framework Development &
Consensus Building
→ Build a global framework through multistakeholder cooperation

Expected outcomes: Advance towards a Global Bioeconomy Monitoring Framework with standardized indicators and KPIs, support international alignment on definitions, and explore viable markets to help de-risk investments and strengthen global cooperation.
2027–2028
Deliver Practical Solutions
→ Deliver practical, scalable bioeconomy solutions.

Expected outcomes: Pilot the Global Bioeconomy Monitoring Framework, work towards integrating bioeconomy into multilateral systems and global bioeconomy trade, and support demonstrating its viability as a transformative pathway for sustainable development and climate action.

News &
Events

At COP30, Brazil and global partners unveil the Bioeconomy Challenge to scale sustainable investment in nature

Bioeconomy Challenge launched at COP30 to accelerate a just transition

COP30: Bioeconomy Challenge Agenda

Become a Partner

Any organization can become part of the Bioeconomy Challenge by making a simple pledge — a commitment to the 10 High-Level Principles on Bioeconomy (10HLPs) adopted by G20 countries.

Participation is voluntary and free of charge. By joining, you agree to align your strategies and actions with these principles, set measurable goals, and share progress over time. Your commitment will help build trust, coherence, and impact across this growing global community.