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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...
Illusory Emissions Reductions from Biofuels Undermine California Progress on Climate
California relies on counting uptake of ‘renewable diesel’ as a primary mechanism for achieving greenhouse gas emissions reductions, despite evidence showing that biofuels are anything but ‘carbon neutral’ and can result in even more emissions than fossil fuels. CARB...
No biofuels for shipping – videos
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Burning HVO for electricity and heat in Ireland – climate and environmental impacts
Biofuelwatch briefing about the impacts of irish government support for Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil Click here to download the full report Summary: Despite well-established fraud and sustainability concerns, the Irish government is pushing ahead with supporting HVO...
What the biofuels industry doesn’t want you to know
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...
Whistleblowers reveal profound failure of ISCC to implement biofuel “sustainability standards”
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Shipping industry’s biofuels plan threatens rainforests, communities and climate
Open Letter to the Secretariat of the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) Click here to read the letter in Spanish 17th February, 2025 - The UN’s International Maritime Organization (IMO) will soon finalise its negotiations on key climate laws for international...
A conversion to biofuels cannot be part of a Just Transition for Grangemouth
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A Global Fat Grab: examining the push for aviation biofuels
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Joint report about Power2X bio-methanol proposal in Pärnu, Estonia
Power2X proposes destroying ancient forest for a technology with a long record of failure Click here to download the joint report by Biofuelwatch and Save Estonia's Forests Click here to download the report in Estonian Summary: A Dutch start-up company, Power2X, is...
Le projet E-CHO d’Elyse Energy à Lacq : de l’innovation verte ou un éléphant blanc hors de prix ?
In English Cliquez ici pour télécharger le rapport complet Coupe rase en Pyrénées atlantiques, près de Lacq Introduction Le projet E-CHO est un plan ambitieux impliquant trois projets différents mais interconnectés à Lacq et ses environs, dans le département des...
Elyse Energy’s E-CHO project in Lacq: Green innovation or a costly white elephant?
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,...
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
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...
Renewable Diesel Is Not Renewable
This short op-ed piece was written by Gary Hughes of Biofuelwatch and was published in the Eureka Times-Standard in the heart of the redwood region in Northern California. See: https://www.times-standard.com/2022/12/01/my-word-renewable-diesel-is-not-renewable/# As...
California Governor Doubles Down Supporting High Carbon Liquid Biofuels As Refinery Conversion Governance Concerns Intensify
In late July 2022 the administration of California Governor Gavin Newsom sent a letter to the California Air Resources Board (CARB) that included a list of priorities of what the Governor wants to see elevated in the development of the 2022 Scoping Plan. In California...
Aviation ‘Net Zero’ Bill Advances in California Legislature as Irregular Permitting of SF Bay Area Refinery Conversions to Biofuels Receive Legal Challenges
The California Legislature’s Senate Standing Committee on Environmental Quality has advanced a bill that aggressively promotes the creation of an incentives plan to massively increase the quantities of so-called “Sustainable Aviation Fuel” (SAF) produced and consumed...