Environmental groups from countries supplying wood pellets to The Netherlands demand a much faster and more comprehensive phase out of wood bioenergy subsidies than planned - for immediate release - Amsterdam, 20th June 2022 – 31 environmental organisations in the...
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Open Letter to Dutch House of Representatives
Joint open letter by 31 organisations from the Netherlands and five countries exporting wood pellets burned in Dutch power plants Click here to download the letter with references and list of signatories Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van de brief. Open Letter...
Open brief aan Tweede Kamercommissie voor Economische Zaken en Klimaat
Gezamenlijke open brief van 31 milieu- en bosbeschermingsorganisaties uit Nederland en uit vijf landen waar vandaan houtpellets naar de Nederlandse elektriciteitscentrales worden geëxporteerd Klik hier om de brief met referenties en lijst van ondertekenaars te...
Joint Statement against Hamburg Senate proposal to burn wood or fossil gas in the Tiefstack plant
Hamburg needs an exit from coal, fossil gas and wood! Joint statement by 37 German and international organisations against ongoing climate change emissions by Hamburgs heat and power plant Tiefstack Update: In December 2024, Hamburg's Environment Minister and the...
Hamburg, raus aus Kohle, Erdgas und Holz
Gemeinsame Stellungnahme gegen die fortgesetzte Klimaschädigung durchdas Hamburger Heizkraftwerk Tiefstack, 16. Juni 2022
Aviation ‘Net Zero’ Bill Advances in California Legislature as Irregular Permitting of SF Bay Area Refinery Conversions to Biofuels Receive Legal Challenges
The California Legislature’s Senate Standing Committee on Environmental Quality has advanced a bill that aggressively promotes the creation of an incentives plan to massively increase the quantities of so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuel” (SAF) produced and consumed...
NEWSLETTER JUNE 2022
Welcome to our latest newsletter of 2022, full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. Sign up to mailing list 1. International Day of Action 2. BlackRock Briefing 3.Barclays Drop Drax 4.Report...
Offener Brief an STEAG: Walsum10 darf nicht auf die Verbrennung von Holzbiomasse umgerüstet werden
Offener Brief von ROBIN WOOD e.V., Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V., Biofuelwatch, Naturschutzbund Deutschland (NABU) Landesverband Nordrhein-Westfalen e.V., Parents for Future Duisburg, Klimaentscheid Duisburg, Fridays for Future Ortsgruppe Duisburg und Students for Future...
Submission opposing a Sustainable Aviation Fuels Bill in California
Biofuelwatch submission to the Californian Senate Environmental Quality Committee opposing a Sustainable Aviation Fuels bill: Our organization Biofuelwatch offers this position letter to the Senate Environmental Quality Committee for your consideration. Biofuelwatch...
Response to the Scottish Government National Planning Framework 4 Consultation
Biofuelwatch response to the Scottish Government National Planning Framework 4 Consultation (31 March 2022): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MgSqHtveX8w3kTCFfI74zkH9XSgfW55ASKmaed47k1M/edit
Blackrock: Investing in biomass energy harms forests, climate and communities
New Biofuelwatch briefing about BlackRock's harmful investments in energy from forest and tree plantation wood, coinciding with BlackRock's 2022 AGM. Highlighting their investments in Drax, Graanul Invest's new owners Apollo Global Management, Albioma S.A. and their...
Joint Letter: Keep Bioenergy out of REPower EU
Click here to read the letter with full references and to see the list of signatories. Letter sent to President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Executive Vice President for the Green Deal Frans Timmermans, and EU Commissioners Janusz...
Environmental and climate justice campaigner hold Day of Action urging Vattenfall to move Beyond Burning
Street protests in Germany, Netherlands and UK accompanied by international social media action, denouncing Vattenfall’s investments in wood bioenergy as well as continued fossil fuel burning 27th April 2022 - Today, ahead of tomorrow’s Vattenfall AGM, banner protests...
Climate justice campaigners denounce Drax’s tree burning at AGM demonstrations
27th April 2022 - Forest and climate justice campaigners across the UK are taking part in online and in-person demonstrations today to call on the world’s biggest wood-burning company, Drax, to “Stop Burning Trees”. The protests are to coincide with the Drax Group’s...
Dutch government rules out new subsidies for burning wood for energy
Good news from the Netherlands, where campaign groups have been working hard to stop the burning of wood, much of it imported, in heat and power stations. In February 2021, the Dutch Parliament adopted a temporary stop to rule out new subsidies for biomass heat...
Hearing Set for Appeals of Flawed Permitting of San Francisco Bay Area Refinery Conversions to Make Fuel From Food
Though the environmental reviews of each refinery fail to even mention the existence of the other biofuel refinery project, the appeals of the approval of the flawed permitting of two massive and high emissions liquid biofuel refineries are set for the exact same day....
Open Letter to Vattenfall urging them to stop burning carbon including wood
Letter to Ms Anna Borg, Vattenfall CEO, CC to Mr Martijn Hagens (CEO Vattenfall Netherlands), Mr Alexander Van Ofwegen (Director of Heat Vattenfall Netherlands), Ms Tanja Wielgoss (Chairwoman of the Board Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG), Mr Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson,...
Stop Burning Trees Social Media Action
Social Media action to call on Drax and Vattenfall to Stop Burning Trees - 27th April 27th of April is both the Drax AGM and an international Day of Action against Vattenfall's burning and trading of wood for energy. In the UK, there will be street protests in London...