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BIOFUELS

Biofuelwatch challenges the expansion of crop based and waste based biofuels for road transport and aviation. We highlight their real climate impacts, including indirect land use change, deforestation, land grabbing, and risks to food security and human rights. We call for genuine emissions reductions rather than replacing fossil fuels with other forms of burning.

BECCS AND BIOCHAR

Biofuelwatch opposes climate geoengineering approaches such as BECCS and biochar. These technologies are unproven at scale and depend on vast amounts of biomass, with serious risks to forests, ecosystems and communities. They also risk delaying real climate action by diverting attention from urgent emissions cuts.

#AXEDRAX CAMPAIGN

The Axe Drax campaign challenges large scale tree burning for electricity and the public subsidies that support it. We oppose the expansion of biomass power and plans to combine it with carbon capture. Our work focuses on protecting forests, exposing false climate claims, and ending support for destructive bioenergy.

BIOENERGY IN CALIFORNIA

In California, bioenergy and carbon removal proposals are being promoted as climate solutions. Biofuelwatch tracks these developments and highlights the risks of locking in combustion based infrastructure and expanding biomass demand. We advocate for real climate action based on cutting fossil fuel use, not replacing it with large scale bioenergy.

EUROPE: SUPPORT FOR CAMPAIGNS AGAINST BIG BIOMASS ACROSS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

We support campaigns across Europe opposing large scale biomass and related infrastructure. Our work connects groups across countries and shares evidence on climate impacts, forest loss, biodiversity harm, air pollution and community impacts. We push for policies that prioritise real renewables and reduced energy demand.

BIOMASS BACKGROUND

Biomass Basics explains why burning wood and other biomass is not a climate solution. It covers carbon emissions, forest impacts, air pollution and the problems with sustainability claims. This section provides clear explanations and links to evidence for people new to the issue.

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Biofuels

What the biofuels industry doesn’t want you to know

What the biofuels industry doesn’t want you to know

Jun 3, 2025

What’s really in your ‘sustainable’ biofuels? Click here to download Biofuelwatch's report about the ISCC Biofuels, especially palm oil, have long been associated with deforestation. That’s why Germany set up the ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon...

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BECCS and Biochar

Biochar: A critical perspective

Biochar: A critical perspective

May 16, 2024

New Biofuelwatch briefing, May 2024: What does the science tell us about whether biochar reliably stores carbon and boosts soil fertility? Click here to download the fully referenced briefing Klicken Sie hier, um die deutsche Version zu lesen Introduction: In 2011,...

Lynemouth Power Station: A smaller version of Drax

Lynemouth Power Station: A smaller version of Drax

Jul 21, 2023

Lynemouth Power Station, owned by the Czech energy company EPH, is the second biggest biomass plant in the UK after Drax and one of the biggest in the world. The power station burns up to 1.5 million tonnes of wood every year. The majority of the wood is sourced from...

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#AxeDrax Campaign

#AxeDrax AGM protests

#AxeDrax AGM protests

Apr 25, 2017

On 13th April, Biofuelwatch and our allies from the Coal Action Network, Fuel Poverty Action, London Mining Network as well as Yorkshire and Liverpool campaigners against dirty energy staged three simultaneous protests to coincide with Drax Plc's Annual...

Two #AxeDrax protests in one week

Two #AxeDrax protests in one week

Oct 26, 2016

In collaboration with Coal Action Network and the London Mining Network, Biofuelwatch went to protest against subsidies for Drax's biomass burning at the new department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS). This department was created to take on some of...

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Bioenergy in California

Bioenergy in California

Europe: Support for campaigns against big biomass across European countries

EPH’s biomass business in Europe

Jun 4, 2025

Click here to download the briefing German version of the report Summary The EP holding (EPH) is one of Europe’s largest investors in  climate-damaging energy, primarily in fossil fuels, but also in wood-fired power plants in Germany, the UK, the Czech Republic,...

EPH’s Biomasse Business in Europa

Jun 4, 2025

Bitte hier klicken um den Report herunterzuladen Report auf Englisch Zusammenfassung Die EP-Holding (EPH) ist eine der größten europäischen Investoren in klimaschädliche Energie, vor allem in fossile Brennstoffe, aber auch in Holzkraftwerke in Deutschland,...

Europe: Support for campaigns against big biomass across European countries

Biomass Basics

money into forest biomass (Four)

Learn more about why burning wood and other biomass is not a climate solution. This section provides clear explanations and links to evidence for people new to the issue.

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