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Drax ‘burns its way through COP’ – campaigners demonstrate at forest greenwashing event
Glasgow 10th November 2021 - Climate justice campaigners have been taking part in demonstrations at COP26 in Glasgow today outside a World Bioenergy Association event featuring Drax, [1] and other bioenergy industry executives, to call for an end to Drax Power...
Press release: Keep bioenergy out of the Energy Charter Treaty, say 58 groups
Keep bioenergy out of the Energy Charter Treaty, say 58 groups Including bioenergy within the Energy Charter Treaty would make this harmful treaty even worse - Embargoed for 11 am CEST, 6th July 2021 - Brussels/Amsterdam/London - 6 July, 2021 - 58 civil society...
Drax Plc’s carbon capture claims not based on any real-world evidence, company reveals to campaigners
Drax’s carbon capture announcements claims appear motivated by quest for new multi-billion pound subsidies, environmental campaigners warn For immediate release London, 14th June 2021 - The environmental campaign group Biofuelwatch is today publishing...
Reports, briefings and presentations
BECCS Factsheet April 2023
Download our BECCS factsheet with a focus on Drax's proposal to capture CO2 from two of its large biomass units in Yorkshire.
Case study on the Omega Green Biofuel refinery in Paraguay
Producing fuel for otherpeople’s planes Case study by HEÑÓI (Centro de Estudios y promoción de la Democracia, los Derechos Humanos y la Sostenibilidad Socioambiental), Paraguay, published by HEÑÓI, Stay Groounded, , Biofuelwatch and Global Forest Coalition, March 2022...
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...
Responses
Objection to permit application for a waste wood power plant in Tansterne
Biofuelwatch submission to the Environment Agency regarding GB Bio Ltd's permit application for the Tansterne Biomass Plant, which would burn waste wood
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
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Civil Society Denounces World Bank’s Scheme to Hijack Farmers’ Rights to Seeds
Civil Society Declaration denouncing the World Bank's Enabling the Business of Agriculture (EBA) programme, which attacks farmers' rights to seeds and food sovereignty as well as the environment
Our land is worth more than carbon
See here for a list of signatories The Paris Agreement required the 196 Parties to the UN Climate Convention to limit temperature increases to 2° or 1.5°C below preindustrial levels. While COP21 benefitted from a high degree of mobilization linked to the adoption of...
No Place for Gene Drives in Conservation
A Call For Conservation with Conscience: No Place For Gene Drives in Conservation. A letter initiated by the Civil Society Working Group on Gene Drives, signed by scientists and civil society organisations