Urgent briefing to MPs: Bioliquids and the Draft Renewables Obligation (Amendment) Order 2013 , Sumatra Orangutan Society, ActionAid UK, Friends of the Eearth, Biofuelwatch, ACSEB, NOPE Please note that the ROCs proposals have now been approved hence the briefing...
Report, briefings and presentations
Tree plantations in the South to generate energy in the North
Tree plantations in the South to generate energy in the North: A new threat to communities and forests World Rainforest Movement briefing paper
Timothy Searchinger’s letter to Bernard Bulkin, DECC
Letter by Timothy Searchinger to Bernard Bulkin, Office of Renewable Energy, UK Department for Energy and Climate Change: Re Observations and Information Related to DECC Supplementary Statement of November 22, 2012 Regarding UK Bioenergy Strategy
RES Biomass Power Station proposal for the Port of Liverpool: Local and wider threats
RES Biomass Power Station proposal for Alexandra Dock, Port of Liverpool: Local and wider threats, Biofuelwatch background briefing
Presentations and links from ‘Forests are not Fuel: The Limits of Bioenergy in Climate Mitigation’ event
On 9th October we jointly hosted an event with Friends of the Earth, 'Forests are not Fuel: The Limits of Bioenergy in Climate Mitigation.' You can access links and presentations from our speakers here: (1) Professor Helmut Haberl's presentation dispelling the myth...
BECCS: Climate saviour or dangerous hype?
[add-this] BECCS (Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage): Climate saviour or dangerous hype?, Report by Biofuelwatch UPDATE: Click here for a fully updated report about BECCS, published by Biofuelwatch in December 2015 Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage...
Peak Gen’s links with W4B – background
Thanks to everyone who took part in the alert to Peak Gen, the current owners of W4B Renewable Energy Ltd (W4BRE). At the time we launched the alert, Peak Gen were refusing to discuss their intentions and investments with us or other campaigners. Following the alert...
An Overview of the Development of Genetically Engineered Trees in South America
An Overview of the Development of Genetically Engineered Trees in South America, Briefing by Global Justice Ecology Project and Global Forest Coalition
ACSEB briefing on biofuel electricity
Why DECC should stop ROCs for bioliquid fuels now - Briefing by Action for Sustainable Energy in Bristol (ACSEB)
Food not fuel: agrofuels, food prices and hunger
Food not fuel: agrofuels, food prices and hunger, Briefing by Friends of the Earth International
Update on W4B/Peak Gen
Thanks to everyone who took part in the alert to Peak Gen, the current owners of W4B Renewable Energy Ltd (W4BRE). At the time we launched the alert, Peak Gen were refusing to discuss their intentions and investments with us or other campaigners. Following the alert...
Congressional Briefing on Biomass Incinerators and Human Health
Congressional Briefing on Biomass Incinerators and Human Health Sponsored by Save America's Forests, with presentations by: + Rachel Smolker, Biofuelwatch: Air Pollution and Other Waste Emitted from Biomass Incinerators + William Sammons, M.D. • Biomass Incinerators...
Parliamentary Briefing: Scottish Government proposals will support destructive, low-efficiency big biomass
Scottish Parliamentary Briefing by Friends of the Earth Scotland, Biofuelwatch, No Leith Biomass and Grangemouth Community Council: How Scottish Government proposals will support destructive, low-efficiency, large-scale biomass (updated 29th October 2012)
Biofuelwatch Report – Sustainable Biomass: A Modern Myth
Biofuelwatch has released a new report, 'Sustainable Biomass: A Modern Myth'. It explores the certification companies certifying biomass as sustainable, the UK government's proposed sustainability criteria for biomass, and developer's 'promises' to source...
An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South
An overview of industrial tree plantations in the global South: Conflicts, trends and resistance struggles, EJOLT Report No. 3, authors: Winfridus Overbeek (World Rainforest Movement), Markus Kröger (University of Helsinki) and Julien-François Gerber
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,...
Bio-Economies: The EU’s real ‘green economy’ agenda?
Bio-Economies: The EU's real 'green economy' agenda? Report by Ronnie Hall and Joe Zacune, published by Transnational Institute and World Development Movement