GlobalBioeconomyAssessmentiGlobalBioeconomyAssessmentCoordinatedEffortsofPolicy,Innovation,andSustainabilityforaGreenerFuture©2024UnitedNationsEnvironmentProgrammeISBN:Jobnumber:DOI:Thispublicationmaybereproducedinwholeorinpartandinanyformforeducationalornon-profitserviceswithoutspecialpermissionfromthecopyrightholder,providedacknowledgementofthesourceismade.TheUnitedNationsEnvironmentProgrammewouldappreciatereceivingacopyofanypublicationthatusesthispublicationasasource.NouseofthispublicationmaybemadeforresaleoranyothercommercialpurposewhatsoeverwithoutpriorpermissioninwritingfromtheUnitedNationsEnvironmentProgramme.Applicationsforsuchpermission,withastatementofthepurposeandextentofthereproduction,shouldbeaddressedtounep-communication-director@un.org.DisclaimersThedesignationsemployedandthepresentationofthematerialinthispublicationdonotimplytheexpressionofanyopinionwhatsoeveronthepartoftheSecretariatoftheUnitedNationsconcerningthelegalstatusofanycountry,territoryorcityorareaoritsauthorities,orconcerningthedelimitationofitsfrontiersorboundaries.MentionofacommercialcompanyorproductinthisdocumentdoesnotimplyendorsementbytheUnitedNationsEnvironmentProgrammeortheauthors.Theuseofinformationfromthisdocumentforpublicityoradvertisingisnotpermitted.Trademarknamesandsymbolsareusedinaneditorialfashionwithnointentiononinfringementoftrademarkorcopyrightlaws.TheviewsexpressedinthispublicationarethoseoftheauthorsanddonotnecessarilyreflecttheviewsoftheUnitedNationsEnvironmentProgramme.Weregretanyerrorsoromissionsthatmayhavebeenunwittinglymade.©Maps,photosandillustrationsasspecifiedSuggestedcitationUnitedNationsEnvironmentProgramme(2024).GlobalBioeconomyAssessment:CoordinatedEffortsofPolicy,Innovation,andSustainabilityforaGreenerFuture.Nairobi.https://doi.org/10.59117/20.500.11822/45332Production:Nairobi,Kenya.URL:978-92-807-4142-1DEP/2632/NAhttps://doi.org/10.59117/20.500.11822/45332https://wedocs.unep.org/20.500.11822/45332GlobalBioeconomyAssessmentiiiAcknowledgementsTheUnitedNationsEnvironmentProgramme(UNEP)wouldliketothanktheauthorsandtheprojectcoordinationteamfortheircontributiontothedevelopmentofthisreport.Authorsandreviewershavecontributedintheirindividualcapacities.Theiraffiliationsareonlymentionedforidentificationpurposes.AuthorsYutaoWang(FudanUniversity[FDU])MingxingSun(InstituteofGeographicalSciencesandNaturalResourcesResearch[IGSNRR],ChineseAcademyofSciences[CAS]/UNEP-InternationalEcosystemManagementPartnership[UNEP-IEMP])LinxiuZhang(UNEP-IEMP)Reviewers(listedinalphabeticorder)AnthonyShunFungChiu(DeLaSalleUniversity,Manila,Philippines)BakhitaAmondiOduor(EcosystemDivision,UNEP)BavelyneMibei(PolicyandProgrammeDivision,UNEP)CeciliaM.V.B.Almeida(UniversidadePaulista,Brazil)JaneMuriithi(EarlyWarningandAssessmentDivision,UNEP)JiashuoLi(ShandongUniversity,China)JingMeng(UniversityCollegeofLondon,UnitedKingdom)MingzhouJin(TheUniversityofTennessee,USA)RaymondBrandes(PolicyandProgrammeDivision,UNEP)SecretariatandprojectcoordinationMingxingSun(IGSNRR,CAS/UNEP-IEMP)YutaoWang(FDU)LinxiuZhang(UNEP-IEMP)ChaoFu(IGSNRR,CAS/UNEP-IEMP)LanguageeditingStrategicAgenda(XainStorey,LiyanaAini)DesignandlayoutStrategicAgendaThanksalsoto:HuajunYu(FDU),BinChen(FDU),SijingWang(FDU),MeiliXue(FDU),HuijingDeng(FDU),JuWang(FDU),XinyiLong(FDU),DingfanZhang(FDU),LinSun(FDU),ZhixiuHan(FDU),HongyiXie(FDU),Yingf...