Bioenergy Out: Why bioenergy should not be included in the next EU Renewable Energy Directive, Joint briefing by NOAH (Friends of the Earth Denmark), Biofuelwatch, Econexus, Global Forest Coalition, World Rainforest Movement, Rettet den Regenwald e.V./Rainforest...
Biofuels: General Overview
“Jurassic World” and the Dinosaurs at the USDA
"Jurassic World" and the Dinosaurs at the USDA, Rachel Smolker, Truthout
Food not fuel: agrofuels, food prices and hunger
Food not fuel: agrofuels, food prices and hunger, Briefing by Friends of the Earth International
US Corn crisis update: will Environmental Protection Agency suspend ethanol mandate?
The US drought is having serious impacts on the global food supply which will impact the world's poorest. Yet 40% the US' maize crop will be fed to cars, not people, to hit the US' bioethanol target. On Monday, the USA Environmental Protection Agency announced it will...
FAO director general: ‘The US must take biofuel action to prevent a food crisis’
The UN's Food & Agricultural Organisation has called for the US to suspect its biofuels mandatory targets. Writing in the Financial Times yesterday (9th Aug), FAO Director General Jose Graziano da Silva said that the drought currently being suffered in the US,...
Sustainable Energy for All – or Sustained Profits for a Few?
Sustainable Energy for All? - Or Sustained Profits for a Few? Biofuelwatch factsheet about the Sustainable Energy for All (SEFA) Initiative (June 2012) Timed with this year's Rio climate talks, 51 Civil society organisations called on governments to reject the SEFA...
Bio-economy versus Biodiversity
Bio-economy versus Biodiversity, Report by the Global Forest Coalition
Report on side event at UN Intersessional, NY March 2012
UN Intersessional Report: How will the Green Economy affect women? by Keith Brunner
The Flawed Arguments behind Biomass
Response by Robert Palgrave, Biofuelwatch to an article by the Back Biomass Campaign
Biofuelwatch article about biomass, Ecologist
Stop the biomass blackout: Say no to destructive bioenergy policies, Ian Lander, Biofuelwatch
Fuelling the Future: The role of bioenergy and the meaning of “renewable” for Rio+20
Fuelling the Future we Want Biofuelwatch opinion on the role of bioenergy and the meaning of “renewable” in a “Green Economy” - On the Road to Rio+20
$6 billion US corn ethanol subsidies end
The $6 billion Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit subsidy for corn ethanol expired at the end of 2011, but the Renewable Fuel Standard remains and will require 12 billion gallons of corn ethanol in 2012 alone. Click here for more information.
Big Green Lies
Big Green Lies, Biofuelwatch Factsheet on Bioenergy and Agrofuels updated for UNFCCC COP in Durban, November 2011
Bioenergy and waste incineration in the Renewables Obligation and DECC Consultation
Bioenergy and waste incineration in the Renewables Obligation and DECC Consultation Biofuelwatch briefing about UK subsidies for electricity from biofuels, biomass and waste incineration in England and Wales and about proposals contained in a DECC consultation which...
Bionenergy and Waste Incineration in the Renewables Obligation: A Summary of Impacts
Bionenergy and Waste Incineration in the Renewables Obligation: A Summary of Impacts This Biofuelwatch briefing summarises key impacts of subsidies for electricity from bioenergy and waste incineration on climate change, biodiversity, air pollution and public health,...
Presentations from Public Meeting, 4th October, Lumen Centre
Please feel free to download these three presentations which were delivered at Biofuelwatch's Public Meeting on Tuesday 4th October. Presentation 1: 'Introduction to Bioenergy Subsidies', delivered by Rob Palgrave, Biofuelwatch Presentation 2: 'Biofuels in...
Palm oil in the Aguan Valley, Honduras: CDM, biodiesel and murders
In July 2011, the CDM Board approved a palm oil biogas project by Grupo Dinant, a company involved in land conflicts linked to serious human rights abuses, including murders in the Aguan Valley (Bajo Aguan). The decision was made despite representations from many...
Jatropha: Money doesn’t grow on trees (FoE)
Jatropha: Money doesn't grow on trees Friends of the Earth International report