DECC’s revised biomass sustainability criteria are misleading and meaningless

DECC’s revised biomass sustainability criteria are misleading and meaningless

Biofuelwatch media release – for immediate use 22nd August 2013

DECC’s new sustainability conditions for biomass electricity generation to receive Renewable Obligation subsidies fail to address ‘carbon debt’, ‘indirect land use change’ emissions or the impossibility of real sustainability certification in this industry as evidenced in Biofuelwatch’s report Sustainable Biomass – a modern myth