Biomess101: A project by Partnership for Policy Integrity which exposes the misinformation about wood-based bioenergy and counters it with fact-based information Climate and Forest: A website created by Protect the Forest, Sweden which analyses and rebuts...
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RESOURCES ON (WOOD) BIOMASS FOR HEAT AND POWER
SCIENTIFIC ARTICLES AND REPORTS Climate Change Solutions: Sensible or Misguided?, The School of Public Policy Publications, University of Calgary, September 2019 - It concludes: "We argue that emissions from bioenergy should be treated in the same way as emissions...
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Biofuelwatch provides information and undertakes advocacy and campaigning in relation to the climate, biodiversity, land and human rights and public health impacts of large-scale industrial bioenergy. We are a small team of staff and volunteers based in Europe...
New Biofuelwatch briefing exposes Tuzla power plant’s planned biomass unit as a dead end
A new briefing by Biofuelwatch, launched today, has revealed that the planned use of biomass energy crops in a new unit at the Tuzla coal power plant in Bosnia and Herzegovina is an unfeasible and environmentally risky endeavour. 21st December 2023 - The briefing is...
Short-rotation coppicing: No credible option for fuelling new biomass plants in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Click here to download the briefing Summary: Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) is proposing to at least partly convert two coal plant units in Bosnia and Herzegovina to biomass. The company has stated that it would rely largely on Short-Rotation Coppicing (SRC), namely...
Plantažni zasadi kratke ophodnje: nema isplative opcije za razvoj novih postrojenja na plantažnu biomasu u Bosni i Hercegovini
Kliknite ovdje za preuzimanje Sažetak: Elektroprivreda BiH (EPBiH) predlaže da se dvije elektrane na ugalj u Bosni i Hercegovini u jednom dijelu konvertuju u postrojenja na biomasu. EPBIH je navela da će se u velikoj mjeri oslanjati na zasade iz plantaža kratke...
NEWSLETTER DEC 2023
Welcome to our final newsletter of 2023 full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. Click here to sign up to our mailing list 1. Reflection on the year 2. MP Pledge 3. Fundraising appeal 4....
Court Orders, Refinery Fires and Deforestation Drivers: California Push for Liquid Biofuels Ignores Red Flag Warnings
Despite a series of dramatic red flag warnings about public safety and climate impacts, compounded by errors in governance, California authorities continue to push hard for completing the conversion of refineries in the San Francisco Bay Area to operate as the largest...
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NEWSLETTER NOV 2023
Welcome to our latest newsletter full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. 1.Global weekend of action against fossil fuels 2.International Day of action against Big Biomass 3. Take action with your...
International Day of Action Against Big Biomass 2023
We were delighted to take part in the International Day of Action Against Big Biomass on the 19th October. We were part of a network of over 200 NGOs globally taking action to highlight the negative environmental and social impacts of large scale biomass energy. ...
2022 – 2023 Annual Report
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Internationaler Aktionstag gegen Holzverbrennung in Kraftwerken
Protestaktionen gegen das Verbrennen von Holz in Kraftwerken in sechs Städten in Deutschland Pressemitteilung Weltweit protestieren heute Umwelt- und Klimaschutzgruppen dagegen, dass riesige Mengen Holz in (Heiz-)Kraftwerken verbrannt werden, darunter auch in sechs...
The Opinion Piece that California Media Will Not Publish: Moving Beyond High Carbon Bioenergy
The short text below was submitted as a commentary op/ed style piece to both CalMatters and the Sacramento Bee, two of the foremost media outlets covering political and environmental issues in the California state capitol, and across the state. Both platforms declined...
Webinar: The pulp and paper industry and its #BigBadBiomass investments in the EU
Join us on the International Day of Action Against Big Biomass to look at a major player in the EU's biomass energy sector: the pulp and paper industry Hour-long-webinar, focussing on the EU-s three largest pulp and paper-producing countries: Sweden, Finland and...
Deutschland muss die Verbrennung von Waldholz endlich eindämmen!
RED III: Deutschland muss die Verbrennung von Waldholz endlich eindämmen Offener Brief der Umweltverbände an Robert Habeck zur EU-Erneuerbare-Energien-Richtlinie Berlin/Straßburg, 14.9.2023: Anlässlich der finalen Abstimmung über die Novelle der...
Deutschland muss die Verbrennung von Waldholz endlich eindämmen!
Abstimmung über die Novelle der EU-Erneuerbare-Energien-Richtlinie (RED III) / Offener Brief der Umweltverbände an Robert Habeck zur EU-Erneuerbare-Energien-Richtlinie 14. September 2023 Anlässlich der finalen Abstimmung über die Novelle der...
Offener Brief: Deutschland muss die Verbrennung von Waldholz endlich eindämmen
Offener Brief and Bundesminister für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Robert Habeck, 14.9.2023 Unterzeichnet von NABU, Deutsche Umwelthilfe, ROBIN WOOD, Biofuelwatch, WWF Deutschland