“…Moreover, the use of biomass is associated with further economic, environmental, social, health and safety benefits which are based, inter alia, on the renewable nature of biomass, contrasted to the nature of fossil raw materials which possess a limited capacity in the domestic production of biofuels, and thus on the country's independence from fossil feedstocks, on the profits of local agriculture, on the implementations of financial incentives, and on biodegradability and biocompatibility, as well as on the mechanical and physicochemical properties of biomass-based products. The high potential of biomass is even more remarkable when one considers that the nature's global biomass production capacity is huge, namely about 2.0•10 11 t/a compared to only 7•10 9 t/a of all extracted fossil fuels, and furthermore that only 3.3% of the annual biomass production capacity is used for food, feed, and non-food applications (Van Bekkum and Gallezot, 2004;Sheldon, 2014;Li et al, 2018;Badgujar et al, 2020). Biomass consists of about 75% carbohydrates, 20% lignin, and 5% triglycerides, i.e., fats and oils, terpenes and proteins (Sheldon, 2014).…”