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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...
NGO investigation puts European Investment Bank’s due diligence process for large biomass plant loan into question
15th September 2020 - An investigative report [1] published today by the environmental NGOs Biofuelwatch [2] and Salva la Selva [3] raises serious questions about the European Investment Bank’s (EIB) due diligence process related to a €60 million loan for a biomass...
Reports, briefings and presentations
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...
BEIS Biomass Policy Statement – November 2021 – Reference Document
In November 2021 the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) released a biomass policy statement, which laid out how the government views various forms of biomass energy ahead of the biomass strategy being released in 2022. What does the...
Responses
Response to BEIS consultation on the coal phase-out by 2025
Biofuelwatch's response to the consultation titled "Coal Generation in Great Britain : the pathway to a low-carbon future" (which can be found on the Government website here.) We argue that, whilst we welcome a coal phase-out, these proposals contain loopholes to...
Response to BEIS consultation about future Contracts for Difference for “fuelled technologies”
Biofuelwatch response to the call for evidence about future Contracts for Difference for biomass and other 'fuelled technologies'
Objection to environmental permit application for a biomass gasifier in Hull
Biofuelwatch objection to a Bespoke Installation Permit Application for a waste wood gasification plant proposed by Biomass UK No. 1 LLP at the Port of Hull
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
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...
Open Letter to European Parliament Calls for an End to Destructive Biofuels Policies
Almost 200 civil society groups around the world have published an open letter to the European Parliament, ahead of a vote on important reforms to EU biofuels policy. The letter calls on Parliamentarians to take action to restrict Europe's demand for biofuels. Without...