En français Click here for full briefing in English Clearfelling near Lacq, in the Pyrenees, Photo: ouche pas à ma forêt: pour le climat Introduction The E-CHO project is an ambitious proposal involving three different but interconnected projects in and around Lacq,...
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Video expose of Portuguese pellet supplier of Drax
video investigation by Biofuelwatch and Portuguese NGO Zero shows impacts of drax's pellet supplier pinewells on pine forests, including on natura 2000 site A new video investigation by Biofuelwatch and the Portuguese NGO ZERO reveals that the Pinewells pellet...
Pläne zur Ausweitung der Holzverbrennung für die Berliner Fernwärme
Gemeinsames Informationspapier, veröffentlicht von NABU, Deutsche Umwelthilfe, ROBIN WOOD, Biofuelwatch, Greenpeace Berlin, BUND Landesverband Berlin, PowerShift und Bürgerbegehren Klimaschutz Aktualisierte Version, Januar 2025 Zusammenfassung: Der Großteil des...
Logging what’s left: How Drax’s pellet mills are sourcing logs from British Columbia’s rarest Old Growth forests
Joint investigation into wood sourcing for Drax pellet mills in British Columbia by Conservation North, Bulkley Valley Stewardship Coalition and Biofuelwatch Drax Group Plc is a UK-based company that operates the world’s biggest biomass power station, and is also the...
FLYING ON GARBAGE? FULCRUM BIOENERGY’S TRASH TALK
Update: In May 2024, Fulcrum closed down its plant in Reno, Nevada, and laid off most employees. For Then, in September 2024, they filed for bankruptcy. more information, click here to read article in The Chemical Engineer. Fulcrum-briefing-Feb-2024-1Download
LETTERS AND RESOLUTIONS
Letter by 200 scientists to US Congress opposing a proposal to promote logging and wood consumption, especially for biomass industry as a “natural climate change solution”, May 2020 Five Reasons the Earth’s Climate Depends on Forests, Statement by 40 Scientists, May...
NGO FACT SHEETS AND REPORTS
The Burning Question: Should the UK end tax breaks on burning wood for power?, Ember, June 2020 Climate finance for bioenergy and tree plantations is fueling conflicts with communities in Brazil, Federica Giunta and Oliver Munnion, FASE (Federação de Órgãos para...
INFORMATIVE WEBSITES ABOUT WOOD-BASED BIOENERGY
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...
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...
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...
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...
Press release about international NGO letter to the Dutch parliamentary Biomass Roundtable
International NGOs call for immediate end to biomass subsideis ahead of parliamentary Biomass Roundtable 12th June 2023 - Four international environmental NGOs have today written to Dutch MPs ahead of the parliamentary Roundtable on Biomass on 15th June, calling for...
Vattenfall AGM Press release
VattenFAIL: civil society groups in Sweden, Germany, Netherlands and Brussels call out Vattenfall's investments in wood bioenergy and continued fossil fuels burning 26th April 2022 – Yesterday and today, coinciding with Vattenfall’s AGM, banner protests against the...
Urwälder für Hamburger Wärmeproduktion verfeuern?
“Nachhaltigkeitskodex” der Hamburger Energiewerke taugt nicht zum Schutz von Wäldern und Klima Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von ROBIN WOOD und Biofuelwatch 21.April 2023 - Der von den Hamburger Energiewerken erstellte „Nachhaltigkeitskodex für den Einsatz von Biomasse...
Umweltorganisationen entsetzt über LEAGs Holzpellet-Strategie
Holzenergie ist nicht zukunftsfähig, sondern zerstört Wälder und Klima 23. März 2023 Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von ROBIN WOOD, NABU und Biofuelwatch 23. März 2023 - Auf heutige Medienberichte, dass das Lausitzer Energieunternehmen LEAG den Pellethersteller Wismar...
Umweltverbände fordern Stopp der Pläne zur Holzverbrennung im Kraftwerk Tiefstack
Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung: Hamburger Kraftwerk Tiefstack: Pläne zur klimaschädlichen Holzverbrennung stoppen!// Umweltorganisationen fordern ein Ende des Greenwashings und volle Transparenz zu den Plänen / CO2-freie Alternativen müssen offen diskutiert werden...
Sustainable Biomass Program: Certifying paperwork without looking at the forest
Joint report by Biofuelwatch, Comite Schone Lucht, Dogwood Alliance, and Estonian Fund for Nature en Leefmilieu Click here to download the full report (updated May 2023) Click here to download the report in Dutch (updated May 2023) Executive Summary Dutch pellet...