Open letter signed by 93 organizations.
Almuth
Massachusetts Forests at the Crossroads
Massachusetts Forests at the Crossroads: Forests, Parks, Landscapes, Environment, Quality of Life, Communities and Economy Threatened by Industrial Scale Logging & Biomass Power, Massachusetts Forest Watch, report, March 2009
Profit at any Cost: A battle between big business and sustainable lifestyles – Northern Ghana
Report by Deepak Rughani, Biofuelwatch
Biochar for Climate Change Mitigation: Fact or Fiction?
A briefing paper by Almuth Ernsting and Rachel Smolker. Please note that information contained in this briefing has been substantially updated in the 2011 report Biochar: A Critical Review of Science and Policy.
Campaigners to hand over more than 10,000 signatures for release of Indonesian palm oil campaigner: EU Renewable Energy Directive implicated in Human Rights Abuse in Sumatra
Joint press release by Biofuelwatch, Down to Earth, Rettet den Regenwald e.V. Watch Indonesia!
Biomass and Biofuels in the EU Renewable Energy Directive
Report by Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch
Climate Geo-engineering with ‘Carbon Negative’ Bioenergy
This is a critical analysis of proposals for 'carbon negative' bioenergy, including biochar (agrichar) and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage, as a means of reducing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations and mitigating climate change. It includes a wider...
Submission to the Royal Society consultation on geo-engineering
Read submission here.
Consultation on Draft Renewable Transport Fuel Obligations (Amendment) Order 2009
Response to the consultation.
EU Parliament must say no to flawed Renewable Energy Directive
Joint press release by 12 groups.
Agrofuel protest outside Greenergy London office
6th December 2008 - About 40 people held a banner protest outside the Greenergy office, 198 High Holburn, London. Greenergy are the biggest supplier of agrofuels in the UK, using palm oil as well as soya. The protestors were joined by cyclists taking part in the...
Open letter to MEPs
Open letter opposing EU biofuels targets, signed by 33 organisations and 17 individuals.
Did the FSC pass the practical test or is it on the wrong track?
Presentation by Chris Lang
Violence Against Indigenous Women Springs from the Violation of Ancestral Land Rights
Declaration by BAI, a Phillippine network of indigenous women's organizations which is part of the Asia indigenous Women's Network (AIWN). This relates to the violation of indigneous women's rights, including as a result of jatropha plantations for biofuels in...
Agrofuels: The new frontier for genetically modified organism’s (GMOs)
Declaration towards the International Biofuels Conference in Brazil. Red por una America Latina Libre de Transgenicos (RALLT) and African Centre for Biosafety.
Declaration from the International Seminar: Agrofuels as an Obstactle to Food and Energy Sovereignty
Declaration from the international seminar, São Paulo, 17-19 November 2008.
UK-based agrofuel companies
Who is behind the Agrofuel Industry in the UK? Read a summary of companies and other organisations involved in the agrofuel industry in the UK , Biofuelwatch View a map of all biofuel refineries in the UK, except for those that solely use waste vegetable oil. UK...
International Declaration Against the ‘Greenwashing’ of Palm Oil by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO)
Declaration with 256 signature organisations.