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Press release: Campaigners warn consultation loophole could lead to more subsidies for forest destruction
London, 29th May 2020 - Today, hundreds of environmental campaigners are calling on the UK Government to take urgent climate action by ensuring that future renewable subsidies are not used to fund burning trees in UK power stations. Over 800 individuals [1] as well as...
Biomass report by Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency slammed as a “greenwash” by international environment campaigners
Amsterdam, 8th May, 2020 - Today’s publication of a long-awaited biomass report by the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency has been greeted with alarm by international environmental organizations [1] who denounce it for failing for biomass subsidies in the...
Press release: Mass online “Love Trees Axe Drax” protest on Earth Day denounces Drax Plc
Climate campaigners join in Earth Day digital action to denounce the world’s biggest wood burner, Drax Power Station 22nd April 2020 - As Drax Plc holds its Annual General Meeting on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, nature and climate campaigners from across the UK...
Reports, briefings and presentations
Big Biomass in Portugal
Report by ZERO - Associação Sistema Terrestre Sustentável and Biofuelwatch Click here to download. Conclusion: Although in theory Portugal’s biomass power and pellet sectors only use residues and industrial waste, in reality what we are seeing is the unsustainable...
The Multiple Failures of Black Pellet Technologies
A recent history of of false promises, company bankruptcies and mothballed plants Biofuelwatch investigation into attempts fo produce black pellets (thorugh torrefaction, steam explosion, or hydrothermal carbonisation) on a commercial scale, 27th September 2021 - ...
Pläne zur Umrüstung von Kohlekraftwerke auf Holz in Deutschland: Auswirkungen auf Wald und Klima
Von Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch, August 2021 Klicken Sie hier, um das vollständige Briefing herunterzuladen Petition gegen das Verbrennen von Holz aus Bäumen und Büschen in Großkraftwerken in Deutschland Zusammenfassung: Im Rahmen des – viel zu langsamen-...
Responses
Objection to SiBOR’s planning application for a waste wood gasifier in Andover
Biofuelwatch objection to SiBOR's proposal for a 10 MWe waste wood gasification plant at Walworth Business Park, Andover
Submission to European Commission consultation about a post-2020 bioenergy policy
Biofuelwatch response to European Commission consultation "A sustainable bioenergy policy for the period after 2020"
Response to Consultation on draft Convention on Biological Diversity reports on synthetic biology
Biofuelwatch response to the Consultation on the “Updated report and synthesis of views in response to paragraph 7(b) of decision XII/24” and the “Report of the meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology”
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Papua-Wide meeting calls for 10 year Moratorium on Plantation and Forestry Industries
Papua-Wide meeting calls for 10 year Moratorium on Plantation and Forestry Industries, See here for the list of organisations which signed the declaration
Open Letter to European Commission opposing biodiversity offsets
Open Letter to the European Commission signed by over 600 organisations and over 10,000 individuals opposing biodiversity offsetting
‘Climate Smart Agriculture’? We say no
Serious concerns have been raised by over 100 civil-society organisations about the so-called "Global Alliance for Climate- Smart Agriculture" launched at the UN's Climate Summit. Signatories to an open letter rejected the Alliance as a "deceptive and deeply...