Issue (WIWE) status: Submitted, Unpublished
Wild Card's progress: Fully-fledged
This Wild Card came from:
European Commission Framework Programme for RTD
The theme/scheme related to this Wild Card:
Theme 2 - Food, Agriculture and Fisheries, and Biotechnology
The sub-theme that best relates to this Wild Card:
Food quality and safety
Likelihood timeframe and scenario features :
now-2025
Wild Card's description:
If world energy sector becomes dependent on algae biofuel production, terrorist know how vulnerable algae is for bioterrorism and how dependent many countries of sunny offschores are on their algae production. As oil sector is going down and algae is taking its place, new global geopolitical tensions arise. Ex-oil states drive terrorist attacks on algae.