Select Page

Biofuelwatch

Raising awareness of the negative impacts of industrial biofuels and bioenergy

GET INVOLVED
DONATE

Biofuelwatch provides systemic analysis based on secondary and occasionally primary research and undertakes advocacy and campaigning in relation to the climate, environmental, human rights and public health impacts of large-scale industrial bioenergy.

Our work

BIOFUELS

Biofuelwatch challenges the expansion of crop based and waste based biofuels for road transport and aviation. We highlight their real climate impacts, including indirect land use change, deforestation, land grabbing, and risks to food security and human rights. We call for genuine emissions reductions rather than replacing fossil fuels with other forms of burning.

BECCS AND BIOCHAR

Biofuelwatch opposes climate geoengineering approaches such as BECCS and biochar. These technologies are unproven at scale and depend on vast amounts of biomass, with serious risks to forests, ecosystems and communities. They also risk delaying real climate action by diverting attention from urgent emissions cuts.

#AXEDRAX CAMPAIGN

The Axe Drax campaign challenges large scale tree burning for electricity and the public subsidies that support it. We oppose the expansion of biomass power and plans to combine it with carbon capture. Our work focuses on protecting forests, exposing false climate claims, and ending support for destructive bioenergy.

BIOENERGY IN CALIFORNIA

In California, bioenergy and carbon removal proposals are being promoted as climate solutions. Biofuelwatch tracks these developments and highlights the risks of locking in combustion based infrastructure and expanding biomass demand. We advocate for real climate action based on cutting fossil fuel use, not replacing it with large scale bioenergy.

EUROPE: SUPPORT FOR CAMPAIGNS AGAINST BIG BIOMASS ACROSS EUROPEAN COUNTRIES

We support campaigns across Europe opposing large scale biomass and related infrastructure. Our work connects groups across countries and shares evidence on climate impacts, forest loss, biodiversity harm, air pollution and community impacts. We push for policies that prioritise real renewables and reduced energy demand.

BIOMASS BACKGROUND

Biomass Basics explains why burning wood and other biomass is not a climate solution. It covers carbon emissions, forest impacts, air pollution and the problems with sustainability claims. This section provides clear explanations and links to evidence for people new to the issue.
biofuelwatch-favicon

Industrial scale bioenergy is harming communities and ecosystems as well as the climate

Featured

ENI: Greed Over Green

Read More

NESTE’s Biofuels: Don’t Ask Don’t Tell

Read More

Illusory Emissions Reductions from Biofuels Undermine California Progress on Climate

Read More

Latest updates

Objection to Lough Ree power station conversion

Aug 14, 2019

Biofuelwatch, Dogwood Alliance and Friends of the Irish Environment have submitted objections to Ireland's Electricity Supply Board (ESB)'s latest plan to convert another peat power station - Lough Ree, in Lanesborough - to run on biomass instead. FIE cited the...

Burned Screening and Q&A in Amsterdam, 27th July

Jul 17, 2019

Where? NieuwLand, Pieter Nieuwlandstraat 93-95, 1093 XN Amsterdam When? 7pm for a 7.30 pm start [add-this] What? "Burned - Are Trees the New Coal?" is an award-winning documentary that reveals the destruction of southern US forests for biomass energy, much of it...

Biofuelwatch Newsletter July 2019

Jul 8, 2019

Dear Biofuelwatch supporter Welcome to our latest newsletter full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. Important reading for anyone who wants to see meaningful responses to climate change and who is concerned...

GET
INVOLVED