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Funding Information: Open Access funding provided by Aalto University. This study has been partly funded by the Academy of Finland (Project SA 307467 “Bioeconomy and Justice”) and the Finnish Ministry for Agriculture and Forestry (projects 101/03.02.06.00/2018 “The Role of Justice in Decision Making Concerning Bioeconomy” and 2142/03.02.06.00/2018 “A Just Management Model for a Systemic and Sustainable Shift Towards Bioeconomy”). Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s). The European Union’s 2018 updated bioeconomy strategy A Sustainable Bioeconomy for Europe: Strengthening the connection between economy, society and the environment aims to fulfill the requirements of sustainability and justice while transitioning economy from fossil-based to bio-based. We ask whether and to what extent the economically ambitious strategy succeeds in achieving its non-economic goals. We present a map of justice that shows the tensions and alliances between key interpretations of equality, identify the definition of sustainability informing the strategy, and show how this definition steers the strategy toward a limited view of justice that is geared to ignore social and ecological concerns. The governance framework that the strategy adheres to is the 2015 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals approach, which is an outgrowth of the 1987 Brundtland Commission’s view on sustainability. Since this framework forms the basis of many other international environmental agreements, our observations are largely applicable to them, too. From the viewpoint of justice, comprehensively understood, the whole system is, and has since the Brundtland Report been, fundamentally flawed. |
