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Press release about international NGO letter to the Dutch parliamentary Biomass Roundtable
International NGOs call for immediate end to biomass subsideis ahead of parliamentary Biomass Roundtable 12th June 2023 - Four international environmental NGOs have today written to Dutch MPs ahead of the parliamentary Roundtable on Biomass on 15th June, calling for...
Vattenfall AGM Press release
VattenFAIL: civil society groups in Sweden, Germany, Netherlands and Brussels call out Vattenfall's investments in wood bioenergy and continued fossil fuels burning 26th April 2022 – Yesterday and today, coinciding with Vattenfall’s AGM, banner protests against the...
Urwälder für Hamburger Wärmeproduktion verfeuern?
“Nachhaltigkeitskodex” der Hamburger Energiewerke taugt nicht zum Schutz von Wäldern und Klima Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von ROBIN WOOD und Biofuelwatch 21.April 2023 - Der von den Hamburger Energiewerken erstellte „Nachhaltigkeitskodex für den Einsatz von Biomasse...
Reports, briefings and presentations
Infopapier: Umrüstung des Kohleheizkraftwerkes Hamburg-Tiefstack auf Holzverbrennung
Gemeinesames Infopapier RObin Wood, NABU, Deutsche Umwelthilfe und Biofuelwatch, Juni 2023 Update: Im Dezember 2024 gaben der Hamburger Umweltsenator und die Hamburger Energiewerke bekannt, dass das Tiefstack Kraftwerk nicht auf Holz umgerüstet wird. Bitte hier...
Kritische Analyse des Nachhaltigkeitskodex für Biomasse in Tiefstack und der Begleitstudie
Biomassekodex für Tiefstack birgt die Gefahr, schwerwiegende schäden für klime und umwelt zu verursachen Update: Im Dezember 2024 gaben der Hamburger Umweltsenator und die Hamburger Energiewerke bekannt, dass das Tiefstack Kraftwerk nicht auf Holz umgerüstet wird....
Who is burning Estonia’s wood for energy?
Briefing paper by Estonian Fund for Nature, analysing the demand for Estonian wood for energy, including for wood pellet exports. Click here to download. Click here to see the original version in Estonian
Responses
Lough Ree Power Station objection, August 2019
Along with Dogwood Alliance and in support of Friends of the Irish Environment, we submitted an objection to the Irish Lough Ree peat-fired power station proposal to extend its operations and convert to biomass in August 2019. Both peat and biomass are destructive,...
Biofuelwatch response to Sustainable Tourism Enquiry (UK)
Response to Environmental Audit Committee’s Enquiry into Sustainable Tourism
Consultation response about carbon capture in UK
Biofuelwatch response to UK government consultation "Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS): business models"
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Open Letter from NGOs in pellet producer countries to Dutch policy makers
Open Letter by 36 environmental organisations in Estonia and the USA to Ddutch policy makers opposing subsidies for biomass co-firing with coal and in dedicated biomass plants
Open Letter to California Governor Newsom about California Tropical Forest Standard and Aviation
Click here to read the letter with full details of all signatories and with references [add-this] We write to express our concern about the dramatic rise in greenhouse gas emissions from the aviation sector and the lack of a transparent and science-based plan for the...
Open Letter to California State Assembly Opposing California Tropical Forest Standard
Click here to read Open Letter to Assembly Members Cristina Garcia and Eduardo Garcia ahead of the June 3rd Tropical Forest Standard Stakeholder Meeting Signed by Amazon Watch Asian Pacific Environmental Network System Change not Climate Change Biofuelwatch California...