Join us at 4pm on Thursday 28th August for a webinar discussing the implications and risks of the drive by government and business to expand the aviation biofuels sector in the UK. We will discuss the ideological and economic drivers of this development, the severe...
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Papua solidarity campaign -Supporting activists as they fight to protect their land and their rights
Biofuelwatch is working with allies around the globe to provide support and solidarity with activists in Papua - and Indonesia at large - as they fight to protect their land and their rights. The island of New Guinea is divided into Papua New Guinea (PNG)...
Report about Germany’s Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation Project in Namibia
German development and climate finance project used to create biomass supply chain for German energy providers Click here to download the report And click here to read an open letter by 40 civil society organisations opposed to this project. An related article on a...
Critique of UNIQUE GmbH’s report “Greenhouse Gas Assessment of Bush Control and Biomass Utilization in Namibia”:
Background: Since 2013, the German government has been financing a development and climate finance project in Namibia called “Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation (BCBU)”. It is managed by the German Development Corporation, GIZ. Since 2019, the project’s focus has...
240 Civil Society Groups Call on Indonesian Government to Investigate Suspicious Death of Indonesian Environmental Human Rights Defender
London, 31st October 2019 - In solidarity with Indonesian colleagues[1], Biofuelwatch has joined civil society groups around the world to call on the Indonesian government to launch a thorough and transparent investigation...
Social Cohesion Trumps Agrofuels in Andhra Pradesh
Report by Deepak Rughani, Biofuelwatch
Profit at any Cost: A battle between big business and sustainable lifestyles – Northern Ghana
Report by Deepak Rughani, Biofuelwatch
Campaigners to hand over more than 10,000 signatures for release of Indonesian palm oil campaigner: EU Renewable Energy Directive implicated in Human Rights Abuse in Sumatra
Joint press release by Biofuelwatch, Down to Earth, Rettet den Regenwald e.V. Watch Indonesia!
British NGOs challenge Indonesian government and industry on palm oil claims
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South-East Asia’s peat fires and global warming
Report by Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch Download
Response of environmentalists to Malaysian and Indonesian Palm Oil PR initiative
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EU Governments Must Protest Against Arrests of Uganda’s Rainforest Activists
Read press release.
Expected CO2 emissions caused by producing South East Asian palm oil for biodiesel
An estimation compared with the avoided diesel emissions - based on the most recent science. Jim Roland Download
South-east Asia’s Peat Fires and Global Warming (update)
Joint Release with Ecological Internet, Watch Indonesia and Save the Rainforest (Germany) for the Nairobi COP12 meeting.
South-east Asia’s Peat Fires and Global Warming
Joint press release by Ecological Internet and Biofuelwatch.