BCP/Bio-MRSUT 2015. Bio-economic Multi-regional Supply-Use Tables.

BIOCLIMAPATHS is an AXIS-ERANET 2019 granted project, that aims to better understand the impacts of climate change in future societies that have adopted bioeconomy as a substantial pillar of their economies. The project’s main aim – and output – is to provide insights and recommendations for climate resilient and just bioeconomy transition paths for society and economy.

The BIOCLIMAPATHS (BCP) consortium leverages on complementary expertise of research teams from Austria, Germany and Spain, developing an innovative, spatially explicit, modelling framework for risk assessments of bioeconomy transitions subject to climate extremes. The project’s main aim – and output – is to provide insights on climate resilient and just bioeconomy transition paths in society.

A key tool to achieve this aim is the elaboration of a detailed multisectoral database with high disaggregation on bio-based sectors. For the elaboration of this database, called Bio-MRSUT (Bio-economic Multi-regional Supply-Use Tables) framework, we started from EXIOBASE (Stadler et al. 2018). From the EXIOBASE data to obtaining the series of multi-regional SUT monetary marks, some estimation is required. First, by adapting the initial tables from EXIOBASE to the sectoral structure proposed in BIOCLIMAPATHS. Subsequently, to complete the database with additional information on certain bioeconomy sectors (agriculture, livestock, and biofuels), the 2010 and 2015 BioSAMs (Mainar et al., 2021) carried out by the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission have been used, building the pertinent extrapolations to complete the proposed time period. The result of these processes has given rise to multi-regional monetary SUT frameworks for the EU and its Member States with a very broad disaggregation of the bioeconomy sectors. These multiregional frameworks comprise, with reference to the year 2015, a total of 78 activities (44 of Bioeconomy) and 78 goods and services (44 of them bio-economics), for the 28 EU countries (including the United Kingdom) and the Rest of the World, (as well as the interrelationships and bilateral exchanges between all these territories). In addition, they contain the breakdown of final demand and added value, as well as taxes on activities and products and imports by origin (the resulting data matrix contains 4,529 rows and 4,669 columns).