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,...
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Report warns of science-fiction solution being promoted at Paris Climate Conference
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
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
Who watches the watchmen? Auditors and the breakdown of oversight in the RSPO, Environmental Investigations Agency and Grassroots
Coal phase-out must mean urgent closure of all coal power stations, including Drax, campaigners say
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...
Joint submission with PfPI to UK Environmental Audit Committee Consultation about Green Investment Bank
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
New biomass power stations planned for Port Talbot and Holyhead
[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)
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]
Film premiere and public meeting (London 17/11): ‘Threatened Forests’ – from UK biomass energy policy
'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
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
US National Day of Action: SOS! Stop the burning of bear habitat for electricity
Campaigners welcome Drax’s decision to pull out of destructive energy project
Campaigners welcome Drax's decision to pull out of destructive energy project: Biofuelwatch Media Advisory, 25th September 2015 Environmental campaigners welcome today’s news that Drax Plc has withdrawn from the proposed White Rose Project. The power station would...
Declaration for International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures 2015
Plantations are not Forests: Declaration for International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures 2015
Plantations are not Forests: Civil Society Demonstration Against World Forestry Congress in Durban
Thousands demonstrated outside the World Forestry Congress in Durban on 10th September. The protest, organised by the Civil Society Alternative Programme in Durban, denounced the false definition of industrial tree plantations as forests by the Food and Agriculture...
Can sustainability standards for bioenergy protect forests? World Forestry Congress 2015
Can sustainability standards for bioenergy protect forests? Biofuelwatch and Global Forest Coalition poster presented to the World Forestry Congress 2015, in Durban. Download the poster here
International coalition of green groups speaks out against renewable energy subsidies being spent on biofuels and burning wood
Press release: Tuesday 8th September, 2015 International coalition of green groups speaks out against renewable energy subsidies being spent on biofuels and burning wood, warning of their disastrous impacts on biodiversity, communities and climate Briefing published...
Bioenergy Out: Why bioenergy should not be included in the next EU Renewable Energy Directive
Bioenergy Out: Why bioenergy should not be included in the next EU Renewable Energy Directive, Joint briefing by NOAH (Friends of the Earth Denmark), Biofuelwatch, Econexus, Global Forest Coalition, World Rainforest Movement, Rettet den Regenwald e.V./Rainforest...
Objection to Generation Park Norwich’s application for a biomass power station in Norwich
Biofuelwatch objection to a 49.9 MWe biomass power station proposed in Norwich