Tag: biomass

By killing the Forest Monitoring Law, the EPP has told us exactly what they stand for. And it isn’t a livable planet.

The forest carbon sink is evaporating due to poor management, but in the National Energy and Climate Plans, it’s business-as-usual oblivion.

National Energy and Climate plans from EU member states are refusing to state the obvious – that logging forests for fuel is burning up the carbon sink.

In a big win for forests and climate, Poland bans logging for 6 months in 10 sensitive areas, with plans to expand the protected areas permanently.

Powerful protests in Germany as ROBIN WOOD opposes wood-burning biomass in EU coal plants and exposes the “residues” myth and rampant greenwashing by industry.

Controversial timber sale “paused” in Wishbone WA as NGOs sue after Washington Department of Natural Resources fails to look at climate impacts.

In the wake of the IPCC’s most frightening report yet, as we see the collapse of the forest carbon sink due to overlogging for biomass fuel, it’s a no-brainer to slam the brakes on logging forests for renewable energy

The current reform to forest biomass policy supported by the Council will lead to ecosystem and climate collapse

The future of Europe’s forests should not be decided by a Presidency that has been pushing for years to increase their exploitation – this is an explicit conflict of interest.

We’re shocked – shocked! – to hear of Enviva’s “reckless disregard for the truth”

Representatives of wood-using industries are showing real fear about their ability to survive, and deep frustration that bioenergy is gobbling up resources and getting subsidised to do so.

Climate-critical land carbon sink is rapidly declining, while harvesting and burning wood for biomass energy continues to grow

NGOs say finance rules will greenlight projects that increase climate warming and destroy forests

NGOs Call on EU Leaders to Strengthen Provisions in Trilogue

A single 50 MW biomass electricity plant burns as much wood per year as 180,000 homes – while raking in millions in subsidies that could be supporting truly clean energy

What if we told you that the EU is paying people to burn wood that emits more CO2 than these catastrophic fires?

EU policymakers and investors take note: biomass company claims about carbon neutrality don’t survive scrutiny.

The gap between what the science shows is needed to save forests and the climate, and what is on the table, is still too wide.

Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council Waves Through Biomass Subsidies, Continued Habitat Destruction

Do policymakers really believe that shuffling carbon allowances around and cutting more trees actually reduces atmospheric CO2? Newsflash: it doesn’t.

Three talks, half an hour, including shocking news on how land sink in some member states is now a carbon source, due to overlogging.

In which we use fizziks to demonstrate that wood-burning power plants on average emit a lot more CO2 than fossil-fueled plants.

The evidence that Finland is burning up its carbon sink – and its old-growth forests – couldn’t be clearer.

Many countries make misleading claims about wood use and so-called “climate benefits” of burning forest wood

In addition to ending subsidies for fossil fuels, EU citizens would probably love to stop paying out over €16 billion per year to bioenergy operators.

Doubling down on burning biomass, and then counting on BECCS to hide the carbon later – what could possibly go wrong?

The truth about biomass and wood pellet industry greenwashing

If the EC were serious about stopping the catastrophic decline of forest ecosystems and the carbon sink, they’d take forest biomass out of the RED altogether.

Policymakers know the biomass “sustainability” criteria are a sham, but most lack the courage to say it.