The COVID-19 outbreak in early 2020 caused a devastating health crisis and global socio-economic disruption due to the repetitive lockdowns that restricted human activities.
The pandemic had direct and indirect effects on bio-based products and the bioenergy sector, clearly linked to the fossil sector and the market disruption generated by COVID-19.
Using bio-economy and green recovery as a way of sustaining in post-pandemic era provides a great deal of possibilities to make the global economies resilient to any future uncalled-for- occurrences.