Press Releases

White Roofs, Black Dust and Slippery Slopes: Climate-Engineers seek techno-fix as climate negotiations get underway — Joint press release by ETC Group and Biofuelwatch, 1st June 2009

Global Civil Society Opposes Charred Earth Policy — 147 organisations from 44 countries warn against 'biochar' (large-scale charcoal) as a dangerous new false solution to climate change (6th April 2009)

Campaigners to hand over more than 10,000 signatures for release of Indonesian palm oil campaigner: EU Renewable Energy Directive implicated in Human Rights Abuse in Sumatra (13th February 2009)

EU Parliament must say no to flawed Renewable Energy Directive (13th December 2008)

International Biochar Conference Uses False Claims to Promote Dangerous Technology in the name of Climate Change Mitigation (8th September 2008)

Biofuelwatch and Watch Indonesia! warn against plans for UK’s first vegetable oil power plant (30th May 2008)

MEP Report Calls For 10% Biofuel Target To Be Scrapped (28th May 2008)

New EU sustainability criteria ‘a fig leaf’ for failed biofuel policy, say campaigners (7th May 2008)

Press Release : UK Government face day of demonstrations against new biofuels law (9th April 2008)

Joint NGO press release: Sustainability Criteria and Certification of Biomass – greenwashing destruction in pursuit of profit. (18 March 2008)

Angry reaction promised if Government fails to drop biofuels targets: Demonstration against the RTFO on April 15th. (22 February 2008)

Protesters to target UK’s largest biofuel supplier (30 January 2008)

Renewables Directive: agrofuel target is ‘irresponsible and unsustainable’ (23 January 2008)

Climate rally to demand that Gordon Brown stops bungling with biofuels. (7 December 2007)

London Biofuel Investment seminar runs scared of protestors. (27 November 2007)

British NGOs challenge Indonesian government and industry on palm oil claims. (1 November 2007)

Protestors to target Industry and Government Biofuels conference and exhibition. (15 October 2007)

Vote on Thomsen report: 37 organisations call on EU to abandon plans for a 10% biofuel target (21 September 2007)

Biofuel expansion threatens Europe's wildlife as set-asides are to be scrapped (13 August 2007)

New report calls for “reality check” on biofuels (3 July 2007)

Groups from around the world call for a moratorium on EU incentives for biofuels from large-scale monocultures (27 June 2007)

Environmentalists warn that EU biofuel proposals put rainforests, the climate and communities at risk (18 June 2007)

Response of environmentalists to Malaysian and Indonesian Palm Oil PR initiative (5 June 2007)

Environmental groups condemn IPCC call for large scale biofuels as a climate disaster in the making (4 May 2007)

EU Governments Must Protest Against Arrests of Uganda's Rainforest Activists (16 April 2007)

Hundreds of NGOs and thousands of individuals call on the EU Leaders Summit to say NO to biofuel targets (6 March 2007)

10% biofuel targets a betrayal, say environmentalists and peoples' organizations (17 February 2007)

'Ecological Macbeth' warning over new biofuel incentives (24 January 2007)

EU Energy Strategy risks failing to stabilise the climate at the cost of exporting emissions to the global South: Joint Release with Large Scale Biofuels Action Group (10 January 2007)

South-east Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming: Joint Release with Ecological Internet, Watch Indonesia and Save the Rainforest (Germany) for the Nairobi COP12 meeting (10 November 2006)

South-east Asia's Peat Fires and Global Warming (18 October 2006)

New report reveals biofuel industry lobbying against environmental protection (18 September 2006)

Biofuelwatch Demand an End to Rainforest Destruction for Biofuels (4 July 2006)