Joint briefing by Biofuelwatch and Friends of the Earth United States: Beware False Promises: Algal Oils and Other Products of Synthetic Biology Aren’t About to Save the Orangutan.... But Carry Serious New Risks [add-this] “Algal oil” and “oily yeast” have been...
Biofuelwatch response to the Consultation on the “Updated report and synthesis of views in response to paragraph 7(b) of decision XII/24” and the “Report of the meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology”
Biofuelwatch has published a policy analysis briefing about the UK's biomass sustainability greenhouse gas and sustainability standards, introduced 1st December 2015. Together with the Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI), we have also produced a briefing for MPs...
Policy recommendations by Biofuelwatch and the United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN): Renewable Energy Subsidies in the UK: the case for excluding bioenergy and waste incineration
The nightmare before Christmas: Future GE Chestnuts: Ho Ho NO!, Press release by Global Justice Ecology Project, Indigenous Environment Network and Biofuelwatch, Stop GE Trees Coalition New York (15 December 2015)– In the midst of the holiday season, while thoughts...
Biofuelwatch was very busy in 2015. Here are a few of the things we've done: Taken a giant white elephant to the Department of Energy and Climate Change to deliver a 110,000 signature petition against Drax's White Rose carbon capture project – Drax subsequently pulled...
In Paris for #COP21? The full Climate Space programme of events has just been published, and there's loads going on! Biofuelwatch is co-organising a number of them, including: December 5th - System change not climate change: uniting struggles for climate justice,...
Report warns of science-fiction solution being promoted at Paris Climate Conference Paris, 1st December 2015 - The first in-depth and critical analysis of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) [1], a so-called “negative emissions” technology favoured by...
Last-ditch climate option or wishful thinking? Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage Biofuelwatch has released a new comprehensive report about Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS). Full Report Executive Summary (English, Português, Español) (Full...
Who watches the watchmen? Auditors and the breakdown of oversight in the RSPO, Environmental Investigations Agency and Grassroots
Press release by Biofuelwatch, Coal Action Network and Partnership for Policy Integrity, 18 November 2015 For immediate release COAL PHASE-OUT MUST MEAN URGENT CLOSURE OF ALL COAL POWER STATIONS, INCLUDING DRAX, CAMPAIGNERS SAY No mention of biomass electricity in...
Written evidence submitted by Biofuelwatch and the Partnership for Policy Integrity (US) to the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on the Future of the Green Investment Bank
[add-this] The proposals Two new biomass power stations in Wales, one in Holyhead, Anglesey and one in Port Talbot in south Wales. Both would be burning virgin wood. Each would be 299MWe (although one report says that the Port Talbot one would be 349MW) and would be...
Smoke and Mirrors: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) Biofuelwatch briefing for the SBSTTA 19 meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity [add-this]
'Threatened Forests' (Morgane Productions, 2015, directed by Benoît Grimont) Join us for the UK premiere of this powerful new film ('Threatened Forests' trailer). The film shows the impacts of UK and EU biomass energy policies on native forests in North...
Comments submitted to: EPA Workshop for Public Input on Considerations for Risk Assessment of Genetically Engineered Algae, EPA Docket Number: EPA–HQ–OPPT–2015–0508 by Rachel Smolker
