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Climate victory for students as university drops Drax. Who’s next?
23rd June 2020 - Student climate campaigners from the University of Sheffield have enjoyed a huge victory as the university has decided to stop using dirty electricity supplied by Drax Group,[1] which generates electricity mostly by burning biomass from trees. The...
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...
Reports, briefings and presentations
The Big Con: how big polluters are advancing a “net zero” climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny
We a pleased to be among contributors to a new report lead by Corporate Accountability, Global Forest Coalition and Friends of the Earth International called "The Big Con: How Big Polluters are advancing a "net zero" climate agenda to delay, deceive, and deny". The...
Briefing about EnBW’s plans to replace coal with wood pellets in their Rostock and Altbach-Deizisau coal plants
EnBW’s plans to replace coal with wood pellets in their Rostock and Altbach-Deizisau coal plants: Impacts on forests and climate Update: EnBW has since abandoned plans to convert coal plants to biomass. Neu: EnBW hat seitdem Pläne, Kohlekraftwerke auf Holz umzurüsten...
UNSUSTAINABLE AND INEFFECTIVE: WHY EU FOREST BIOMASS STANDARDS WON’T STOP DESTRUCTION
Biofuelwatch is proud to be a co-author of this new report: "Unsustainable and Ineffective: Why EU Forest Biomass Standards Won't Stop Destruction" . The publication reveals that the European Union (EU) Renewable Energy Directive (RED) sustainability criteria fails to...
Responses
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”
Response to 5th Carbon Budget Call for Evidence (UK)
Joint submission with PfPI to UK Environmental Audit Committee Consultation about Green Investment Bank
Written evidence submitted by Biofuelwatch and the Partnership for Policy Integrity (US) to the Environmental Audit Committee inquiry on the Future of the Green Investment Bank
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
‘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...
21 September 2014: 10th Anniversary of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations
21 September 2014: 10th Anniversary of the International Day of Struggle against Monoculture Tree Plantations: Dismantle the power of transnational plantation corporations! There is no “smart monoculture”: Support the People’s Climate March! Declaration by Campaign to...
Social Movements representing more than 200 million people around the world denounce corporate take-over of Ban Ki-Moon Climate Summit
Social Movements representing more than 200 million people around the world denounce corporate take-over of Ban Ki-Moon Climate Summit [September 19 – 23, New York] When we, as human beings, get a fever, we immediately get worried and take action. After all, we know...