Climate campaigners join in Earth Day digital action to denounce the world’s biggest wood burner, Drax Power Station 22nd April 2020 - As Drax Plc holds its Annual General Meeting on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, nature and climate campaigners from across the UK...
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A Message from Biofuelwatch
For those of you on the Burned screening tonight, we are so sorry for the extremely traumatic footage shared anonymously after the film. We have informed the police and will do everything we can to help them find and prosecute the people responsible. We lodged a...
Submission to initial consultation on EU 2030 Climate Target Plan
Click here to read the joint submission by Global Forest Coalition and Biofuelwatch to the initial consultation.
Love trees, #AxeDrax! online day of action, 22 April
Thank you to everbody who took part in this online protest and for all your wonderful photos! Please scroll down below to see the many contributions - including three videos. And look at #AxeDraxNotTrees on Twitter for the many different tweets sent on the day!...
Biofuelwatch Newsletter March 2020
Dear Biofuelwatch Supporters Welcome to our first newsletter of 2020 full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. Important reading for anyone who wants to see meaningful responses to climate change and who is...
Geoengineering Gets Big Push In Deceptive Climate Bill Introduced In California State Legislature
By Gary Graham Hughes, California Policy Monitor, Biofuelwatch, March 2020 In a surreptitious yet aggressive effort to promote unproven and risky climate geoengineering, California state legislators have recently introduced a bill that places extensive emphasis on the...
32 organisations worldwide call on BlackRock to drop Drax
A coalition of 32 environmental organisations worldwide has sent a letter to the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, asking it to divest from Drax Plc, owner of the world’s largest wood-burning power station in the UK, and to clarify its position on biomass...
BlackRock Open Letter
Dear Michelle Edkins, Head of Responsible Investing, We represent 32 environmental organizations based in over 17 countries worldwide with expertise in biomass power. Consistent with your new focus on climate change and your policy on coal, we urge you to divest from...
Open Letter calling on the Government to redirect renewable subsidies from biomass burning to genuinely renewable energy
To sign the Open Letter, please email: biofuelwatch@gmail.com or complete the Google form here. For a pdf copy of the letter to download and print, please see here To the Secretary of State for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy, and the Energy Minister The...
UK: END BIOMASS SUBSIDIES
Demand an end to subsidies for tree burning! Did you know that the UK Government is wasting millions of pounds a year subsidising tree burning for electricity at power stations like Drax, the UK’s single largest carbon emitter and the world’s biggest tree burner, with...
New Briefing on BlackRock and Biomass
Biofuelwatch has written a new briefing: Why BlackRock should Divest from Biomass, starting with Drax PLC. BlackRock is the world's biggest asset manager, with over US$6.5 trillion in capital under its management. It holds 5% of Drax's stock, making it one of...
Biofuelwatch and Global Forest Coalition briefing about biomass sustainability standards
[add-this] Please click here to read full report Can sustainability and greenhouse gas standards protect the climate, forests and communities from the harmful impacts of wood-based bioenergy? Logging site from which Enviva pellet mill was supplied, North Carolina,...
Crisis in the Swedish Forest –Act Now!
Open Letter to Swedish policymakers and the Swedish Forestry Agency signed by 70 organisations from 25 countries as well as 30 scientists. Click here for a fully referenced version of the letter with a list of the signatories. There is a climate and biodiversity...
California State Legislature Flirtation with Climate Geoengineering Raises Questions and Merits Scrutiny
By Gary Graham Hughes, Biofuelwatch [add-this] A mysterious bill regarding the development of a protocol for measuring “radiative forcing” as a climate action indicator stalled out in the California Senate last year. While legislative staff for the author of the bill...
What have we learned about biochar since 2011?
In 2011 Biofuelwatch published Biochar: A Critical Review of Science and Policy. In that report we highlighted the uncertainties about biochar including the large land area that would be required to supply biomass for a global scale impact, the contradictory results...
Dear MSPs, please ensure the Scottish National Investment Bank protects biodiversity
If you live in Scotland, please call on your MSPs to ensure that the new Scottish National Investment Bank only invests in projects which promote biodiversity, environmental wellbeing and the climate. On Tuesday 21st January, MSPs from the Scottish Parliament will...
Biofuelwatch Newsletter December 2019
Dear Biofuelwatch supporter Welcome to our final update of the year. Thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout the year. With your continued support, we will keep working to ensure we see meaningful responses to climate change and protection of forests and...
COP25 Is Perpetuating a Culture of Impunity for Human Rights Violations
Monoculture Tree Plantations, Bioenergy and Pollution Trading in Chile: United Nations COP25 Perpetuates Impunity By Gary Graham Hughes, California Policy Monitor, Biofuelwatch [add-this] The austral spring of 2019 will mark a historical watershed in the history of...