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Lost in the Woods: Mendocino Redwood Company Quietly Abandons Investment Plans for Biomass to Hydrogen Project.
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NESTE’s Biofuels: Don’t Ask Don’t Tell
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Peer Briefing for SAF Bill Third Reading: Opening the doors to fraud
We are deeply concerned by the government's ongoing support for aviation biofuels, often erroneously known as 'sustainable aviation fuel'. The SAF Bill is now progressing through the Lords, and we want to make it clear to them that this technology is not a climate...
BECCS and Biochar
Public Accounts Committee Inquiry into Carbon Capture, Usage and Storage – Biofuelwatch submission
Biofuelwatch's submission to the Public Accounts Committee's inquiry into carbon capture usage and storage - November 2024. Public Accounts Committee Inquiry into Carbon Capture Usage and Storage - Biofuelwatch submission
Rapport sur le projet de biochar proposé par MIRAIA à Garlin
Le biochar constitue une nouvelle menace pour les forêts françaises In English Cliquez ici pour télécharger le rapport complet un forêt près de Sauveterre-de-de-Béarn (photo: Forêts Vivantes Pyrénées) Résumé La start-up MIRAIA souhaite construire six ou sept usines de...
Biochar poses new threats to forests in France
MIRAIA's Garlin biochar project - joint report by Biofuelwatch and Forêts Vivantes Pyrénées Click here to download the report En français A wood near Sauveterre-de-Béarn (photo: Forêts Vivantes Pyrénées) Executive Summary The start-up company MIRAIA wants to...
#AxeDrax Campaign
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...
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
Bioenergy in California
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...
Rebranding of California carbon market as ‘cap-and-invest’ is a cynical ploy
Leave the market economists to fight among themselves over the right price of carbon — let them relive their Groundhog Day if they wish. The world is moving on and we need to have the audacity to think differently and conceive of alternative futures. --Kevin Anderson...
Fierce Campaign Stops California Wood Pellet Export Scheme
Plug pulled on timber sector proposal to site and construct the largest industrial forest product facilities built in California in decades to manufacture wood pellets for export to foreign markets. Community opposition and international reprobation likely chills...
Europe: Support for campaigns against big biomass across European countries
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...
Berlin, runter vom Holzweg!
Berlin rechnet sich Holzverbrennung schön und liefert fadenscheinige Begründung im Genehmigungsverfahren zum Holzheizkraftwerk Reuter West Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von ROBIN WOOD, NABU und Biofuelwatch, 5.2.2026 Erhebliche ökologische, klimapolitische und...
Report about the Green Gold Label biomass certification scheme
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Biomass Basics
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.