Für eine zukunftsfähige und langfristig bezahlbare Wärmeversorgung in Stade – Wärmeplanung ohne Altholzkraftwerk beschliessen! Offener Brief von NABU, ROBIN WOOD und Biofuelwatch Bitte hier klicken um den Brief zu lesen
Declarations and statements – biomass
Open Letter: Say no to the UK government funding Drax to power data centres
Open Letter to uk government signed by 63 civil society organisations in the UK and in countries exporting pellets to Drax Click here to download the letter with the list of signatories and the logos 15th July 2025 Dear Secretary of State Peter Kyle, Dear Minister...
Joint complaint to Dutch Emissions Agency about RWE’s wood pellet sourcing
To: Dutch Emissions Authority (Nederlandse Emissieautoriteit – NEa) Re: Enforcement request - Evidence that RWE’s wood pellet imports from Malaysia may not be compliant with SDE++ sustainability criteria From: Biofuelwatch and Comité Schone Lucht Date: 26 June 2025...
EU-RED III: Nationale Umsetzung von EU-Recht zur Holzbiomasse – Fristablauf!
Offener Brief an die Bundesregierung von NABU, ROBIN WOOD und Biofuelwatch Bitte hier klicken, um den Brief zu lesen
Offener Brief an den Stadtrat von Cuxhaven
Offener Brief von BUND Cuxhaven, Fridays for Future Cuxhaven, Parents for Future Cuxhaven, Biofuelwatch und ROBIN WOOD Bitte hier klicken, um die Pdf mit den Logos der unterzeichnenden Organisationen herunterzuladen. Cuxhaven, 12. März 2025 Sehr geehrte...
Joint Statement by 185 civil society groups against large pellet plant proposal in California
Joint Statement opposing the Draft Environmental Impact Assessment submitted by Golden State Natural Resources 20.1.2025 The undersigned 185 organizations, collectively representing hundreds of thousands of members in California, across the United States, and around...
Open Letter by civil society organisations in pellet-exporting countries to Secretary of State Ed Miliband
Click here to read the annotated letter with the list of signatories 26th August 2024 Dear Secretary of State, We are writing to congratulate you on your appointment as Secretary of State for Energy Security. We welcome your commitments to tackle the climate crisis,...
Open Letter by Environmental and Climate Organisations regarding KfW finance for wood biomass energy in Serbia
Click here to read the letter with the list of 41 signatory organisations 29th July 2024 Dear Mr Giegold, We are writing to you, as the Chair of the Board of Directors of KfW, on behalf of environmental organisations in the Western Balkan region, in Germany and across...
Open Letter to Vattenfall, 2024
Joint open letter to Ms Anna Borg, Vattenfall CEO by Fridays for Future Sweden, Skydda Skogen (Sweden), ROBIN WOOD (Germany), Comité Schone Lucht (Netherlands) and Biofuelwatch CC to Mr Martijn Hagens (CEO Vattenfall Netherlands), Mr Alexander Van Ofwegen (Head of...
Joint Letter to Dutch MPs ahead of Biomass Roundtable
Joint Letter by BiofuelwAtch, Dogwood Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council and Save Estonia's Forests, 12th June 2023 Click here for a fully referenced version Click here to read the letter in Dutch Dear Sir/Madam, We are writing you on behalf of Biofuelwatch,...
Open Letter to Vattenfall
Vatenfall must stop destroying forests and worsening climate chaos Vattenfall is today preventing young climate activists from attending their annual general meeting. In Vattenfall’s Notice to attend, it says: "The Annual General Meeting is open to the general...
Open Letter to Governor Cooper: Stop the expansion of the wood pellet industry
Biofuelwatch and 71 other environmental and climate justice organisations based in the UK have written an open letter to Governor Cooper to ask him to stop the expansion of the wood pellet industry in North Carolina. Enviva is applying to expand production at...
Open Letter to Dutch House of Representatives
Joint open letter by 31 organisations from the Netherlands and five countries exporting wood pellets burned in Dutch power plants Click here to download the letter with references and list of signatories Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van de brief. Open Letter...
Open brief aan Tweede Kamercommissie voor Economische Zaken en Klimaat
Gezamenlijke open brief van 31 milieu- en bosbeschermingsorganisaties uit Nederland en uit vijf landen waar vandaan houtpellets naar de Nederlandse elektriciteitscentrales worden geëxporteerd Klik hier om de brief met referenties en lijst van ondertekenaars te...
Joint Letter: Keep Bioenergy out of REPower EU
Click here to read the letter with full references and to see the list of signatories. Letter sent to President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Executive Vice President for the Green Deal Frans Timmermans, and EU Commissioners Janusz...
Open Letter to Vattenfall urging them to stop burning carbon including wood
Letter to Ms Anna Borg, Vattenfall CEO, CC to Mr Martijn Hagens (CEO Vattenfall Netherlands), Mr Alexander Van Ofwegen (Director of Heat Vattenfall Netherlands), Ms Tanja Wielgoss (Chairwoman of the Board Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG), Mr Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson,...
Open Letter opposing the Energy Charter Treaty and the proposed inclusion of biomass energy in it
Energy Charter Treaty: Including bioenergy within its remit would make this harmful treaty even worse The Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) allows investors in the energy sector based in one member state to sue the government of another current or former member over almost...
Open Letter: STOP the Pego power station coal-to-biomass conversion!
TrustEnergy, the main shareholder of Pego power station in Portugal and a joint venture between ENGIE and Marubeni, has announced its intention to convert the power station’s coal burning unit (due to close in November 2021) to burning wood pellets. Burning such...