This month we're pleased to welcome Jo to the Biofuelwatch team, bringing years of experience as a volunteer campaigner into a new role focused on Drax Power Station. We also report back from an action outside the International Maritime Organization, share new...
Gary Hughes
Drax and Data Centres
What’s Drax? Drax is the world’s latest biomass power station in Yorkshire. It burned over 7,000,000 tonnes of wood in 2025, which only supplies 5% of UK power. This is subsidised annually up to £999,000,000 of tax payers money as a “renewable” source of energy - but...
ENI: Greed Over Green
This briefing examines ENI's growing investment in biofuels and the environmental, social and economic concerns associated with its expansion strategy. While the company presents biofuels as a key component of its energy transition, evidence highlighted in this report...
Schneller raus aus dem Verfeuern von Ressourcen!
Umweltorganisationen kommentieren Berlins Plan für klimafreundlicheres Heizen Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung zum Dekarbonisierungsfahrplan der Berliner Energie und Wärme GmbH (BEW) 26. Mai 2026- Die heute veröffentlichte Neuauflage des Dekarbonisierungsfahrplans der BEW...
Nearly 80 environmental organisations call on data centre companies: “Don’t Partner with Drax”
14th May 2026 - An open letter signed by 78 environmental organisations has today been sent to 108 companies that operate or are planning to invest in data centres in the UK, urging them to refrain from partnering with Drax Group. The groups that have signed the...
Open Letter to data centre companies: Don’t partner with Drax
Open Letter to Data Centre Operators and Investors 14th May 2026 - The 78 signatory organisations to this letter call on your company to refrain from partnering with Drax Group, either by entering into a power purchase agreement, or by developing a data centre on the...
Energiewende: Holzverbrennung ist auch ökonomisch nicht nachhaltig
Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von ROBIN WOOD, NABU, Biofuelwatch und 180° Wärmewende Leipzig Pressemitteilung, 24. April 2026Zum morgigen Tag des Baumes 2026 warnen die Umweltorganisationen ROBIN WOOD, NABU und Biofuelwatch sowie die Initiative 180° Wärmewende Leipzig...
PRESS RELEASE: Conservation Groups Urge Governments to Reject Biofuels in Shipping Decarbonization Plans
PRESS RELEASE Conservation Groups Urge Governments to Reject Biofuels in Shipping Decarbonization Plans As the International Maritime Organization negotiations open in London, a group of conservation organisations calls on governments to reject biofuels as a...
Mit schwarzen Pellets in die Insolvenz
Umweltorganisationen warnen: Cemex könnte ähnlich scheitern wie finnischer Pellet-Hersteller Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von NABU, ROBIN WOOD und Biofuelwatch 8. April 2026 - Das einzige Pelletwerk Europas, das angekohlte, schwarze Holzpellets produzieren sollte, hat...
Response to Drax’s written evidence to the Environmental Audit Committee
Joint response by Biofuelwatch and Stop Burning Trees Coalition, March 2026 Click here to download
Environmental campaign groups urge European Investment Bank to halt proposed loan to Croatian Forests
19th March 2026 - Biofuelwatch, Fern, Earth Thrive and the Croatian environmental NGO Green Squad have today sent an open letter to the Secretariat of the European Investment Bank (EIB), urging them to put a stop on a proposed loan to Croatian Forests. The groups warn...
Open Letter to European Investment Bank: Proposed loan to Croatian Forests
19th March 2026 Dear Sir/Madam, We are writing to share our concerns regarding the proposed 50 million Euro EIB loan to Hrvatske šume (HS below), which is currently under appraisal, and to urge you to reject this proposal. Our concerns, set out in detail below, relate...
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NGO Open Letter on Crop Based Biofuels
Biofuelwatch have joined with a variety of other organisations across the environmental sector to respond to the government's consultation on crop-based biofuels in aviation. The letter emphasises the drawbacks of these feedstocks for sustainability and food security,...
Lost in the Woods Report: Converting Biomass to Hydrogen is Hard, Expensive, Dirty and Dangerous
Biofuelwatch has published a new briefing report titled ‘Lost in the Woods: Mendocino Redwood Company Quietly Abandons Investment Plans for Biomass to Hydrogen Project.’ The report describes a proposed biomass to hydrogen project that was to be sited, built and...
Lost in the Woods: Mendocino Redwood Company Quietly Abandons Investment Plans for Biomass to Hydrogen Project.
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Schwarze Holzpellets für CEMEX in Rüdersdorf
Gemeinsames Infopapier von NABU, Biofuelwatch und ROBIN WOOD Hier klicken um das Papier herunterzuladen. Für das Zementwerk der Cemex in Rüdersdorf nahe Berlin plant das Unternehmen gemeinsam mit dem Entsorgungsunternehmen Alba eine Anlage zur Biomasse-Torrefizierung...
Holz verfeuern für Zement?
Zementhersteller plant neue Anlage für die Produktion schwarzer Holzpellets in Rüdersdorf bei Berlin / Umweltorganisationen warnen vor Schäden für Wälder und Klima Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von ROBIN WOOD, Biofuelwatch und NABU 24. Februar 2026 - Der...