Biofuelwatch is teaming up with Friends of the Earth Scotland to host a FREE event in the Scottish Parliament on the human rights and environmental atrocities associated with industrial-scale biomass and biofuels. The event is timed to coincide with Biofuelwatch's...
The UN's Food & Agricultural Organisation has called for the US to suspect its biofuels mandatory targets. Writing in the Financial Times yesterday (9th Aug), FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva said that the drought currently being suffered in the US,...
Centrica have applied to build a 80MW biomass power station in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria. At a time when scientists warn that burning biomass on an industrial scale threatens to worsen global warming, speed up deforestation, and lead to ecosystems destruction...
First Biofuelwatch objection to Edgeley Green Power's application for a biofuel power station in Shoreham-on-Sea (focussing on air quality impacts)
DECC has today announced that it will continue to heavily subsidise biomass and liquid biofuels under the Renewable Obligation Certification scheme. This will effectively give millions of pounds to developers to cut forests, increase greenhouse gas...
Biofuelwatch was a member of the Grangemouth Community Council Coalition which made representations against a 100MW Biomass Power station proposed for the Port of Grangemouth, in Scotland, in May 2011. The Coalition's closing submission can be found here
Land grabbing by pension funds and other financial institutions must be stopped - Civil society statement on the finance of land grabs
Indigenous Terra Livre Declaration at Rio+20: Final Declaration of Freen Land Camp IX - Living Well/Healthy Full Life
GJEP and Biofuelwatch disrupt industry event with Richard Branson, Joint Press release by Global Justice Ecology Project and Biofuelwatch
Bio-Economies: The EU's real 'green economy' agenda? Report by Ronnie Hall and Joe Zacune, published by Transnational Institute and World Development Movement
Kario-Oca 2 Declaration of the Indigenous Peoples Global Conference on Rio+20 and Mother Earth
Open Letter: Sustainable Energy for All Initiative- Using poverty and climate change as excuses to increase corporate profits from energy provision
Civil Society Groups Denounce Sustainable Energy for All Initiative, Joint Press Release by Biofuelwatch, Global Forest Coalition, Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives, Global Justice Ecology Project and International Rivers
Sustainable Energy for All? - Or Sustained Profits for a Few? Biofuelwatch factsheet about the Sustainable Energy for All (SEFA) Initiative (June 2012) Timed with this year's Rio climate talks, 51 Civil society organisations called on governments to reject the SEFA...
Industrial biomass: How electricity from wood threatens climate, forests and people and why sustainability standards cannot work, Biofuelwatch briefing
Biofuelwatch objection to a biomass power station planning application by ECO2 near Mendlesham, Mid Suffolk
Nothing Neutral Here: Large-scale biomass subsidies in the UK and the role of the EU ETS, Carbon Trade Watch report
Biofuelwatch submission to the Environment Agency about E.On's application for a permit variation to permit conversion to biomass