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Climate and Forest Groups warn Drax shareholders against acquisition of Pinnacle Pellets
Climate and Forest Groups warn Drax shareholders against acquisition of Pinnacle Pellets, as a new investigation reveals risk of Pinnacle pellet mills turning some of last remaining primary forests in Canada into wood pellets New maps show critical primary forests and...
New Scottish Climate Change Plan relies on dangerous and unproven “negative emissions technologies”, environmental campaigners warn
Photo: Dogwood Alliance - clear-felled forest in theSouthern USA Edinburgh - 16th December 2020 Environmental campaign organisation Biofuelwatch warns that the Scottish Government’s updated Climate Change Plan for 2018-32, [1] published today, relies heavily on...
International groups warn that new German subsidies for coal-to biomass conversions could cause damage to forests around the world
[Scroll down for the German version of the Press Release] 21st October 2020 - 26 environmental NGOs from the USA and Estonia have sent a letter to membersof the Bundesrat ahead of tomorrow’s debate about a reform to the Renewable Energy Law (EEG) which, the groups...
Reports, briefings and presentations
New Report: Biomass Burning Less Important to UK’s Coal Phaseout than Wind and Solar
A new report published today by Biofuelwatch has revealed that bioenergy has played a smaller role in the UK’s coal phase out than solar and wind energy, or reductions in electricity demand. In the ten years between 2011 and 2020 the UK almost entirely phased out the...
Educational resources – biomass
Biomass – sustainable solution or eco-disaster? This session will give a brief introduction to biomass and outline the harmful impacts of large scale biomass production on natural habitats, communities and the climate. The session will include an introduction to...
French company’s greenwashing unveiled: converted energy plants depend on imported forest wood, not sugarcane
A joint article by Environmental Paper Network, Biofuelwatch and Dogwood Alliance exposes Albioma's greenwashing of their coal-to-biomass conversions in the French Overseas Territories Martinique, Gudeloupe and Réunion The French energy company Albioma is in the...
Responses
Response to Egnedol’s “rebuttal” about our joint briefing
Response by Biofuelwatch and Friends of the Earth Pembrokeshire to Egnedol's comments to the Planning Inspectorate about our joint briefing about the proposed biomass gasifier in Milford Haven Our briefing can be found here. Egnedol's comments on that briefing...
NGO Letter urging the UK’s Treasury to stop future biomass subsidies
Open Letter to the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, calling for and end to new biomass electricity subsidies awards by NRDC, Southern Environmental Law Center, Dogwood Alliance, Partnership for Policy Integrity, Biofuelwatch, and Fern
Objection to Egnedol’s planning application for a gasifier and ancillary activities in Milford Haven
Joint objection to Egnedol's proposal for a waste and biomass gasification plant with ancillary activities including algal farming and advanced biofuel production at Blackbridge, Milford Haven, Biofuelwatch and Pembrokeshire Friends of the Earth
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Declaration: Large-scale bioenergy must be excluded from the renewable energy definition
[Signed by 132 civil society organisations and social networks from 45 different countries] - Click here for a Spanish version of this declaration. We, the signatories of this declaration, are calling on the European Union (EU) to exclude bioenergy from its next...
Declaration for International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures 2015
Plantations are not Forests: Declaration for International Day of Struggle against Tree Monocultures 2015
Asunción Declaration Rejects all Genetically Engineered Trees
Asunción Declaration Rejects all Genetically Engineered Trees "We, agronomists, biologists, geneticists, Indigenous Peoples, foresters, activists, attorneys, community organizers, ecologists and others coming together on 22 November 2014 in Asunción, Paraguay from...