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Campaigners call on Government to stop Drax from fuelling environmental injustice, forest destruction and climate breakdown
Campaigners and communities call on Government to stop Drax from fuelling environmental injustice, forest destruction and climate breakdown For immediate release London, 9th October 2019 - A coalition of campaigners have gathered outside the Department for...
Climate campaigners denounce approval of UK’s biggest ever gas power project
London, 4th October 2019 - Today’s decision by the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy [1] to allow Drax Plc’s planning application for the UK’s largest ever gas-fired power capacity will lock the UK into dirty energy production for...
Protests against International Aviation Emissions Strategy – Press Release
Planned protests in Montreal at International Aviation Assembly (24th of September to 4th of October) // New briefing exposes plans for palm oil in the airplane tank & aviation emissions scheme (CORSIA) as set to fail to reduce aviation emissions Montreal/ Vienna,...
Reports, briefings and presentations
Switzerland: Intensive logging and forest degradation in supposedly protected nature sites
Switzerland has ratified the Bern Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats. As a contracting party and to help meet its commitments, it has designated Areas of Special Conservation Interest (ASCIs). Together , those areas form the...
Drax’s Portuguese pellets: What wood is really being used?
In 2020, Drax burned almost 150,000 tonnes of pellets produced in Portugal, making Portugal it’s fourth largest supplier. According to its annual report, 88% of the wood used consisted of “low-grade roundwood” and “thinnings”. The Pinewells pellet mill in Central...
Papua solidarity campaign -Supporting activists as they fight to protect their land and their rights
Biofuelwatch is working with allies around the globe to provide support and solidarity with activists in Papua - and Indonesia at large - as they fight to protect their land and their rights. The island of New Guinea is divided into Papua New Guinea (PNG)...
Responses
Objection to Generation Park Norwich’s application for a biomass power station in Norwich
Biofuelwatch objection to a 49.9 MWe biomass power station proposed in Norwich
Comments for CBD Consultation about Geoengineering
Biofuelwatch comments about biochar and Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage, submitted by Rachel Smolker to the Convention on Biological Diversity's consultation "Update on climate geoengineering in relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity potential...
Submission to UK Environmental Audit Committee about work priorities 2015-20
Biofuelwatch submission to Environmental Audit Committee about key policies needed to adequately protect the environment, promote growth in the low carbon sector and improve wellbeing
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Stop Enabling Land Grabs: Agriculture Doesn’t Need World Bank’s Business Indicators.
Joint Statement: Stop Enabling Land Grabs: Agriculture Doesn’t Need World Bank’s Business Indicators, See here for list of supporting organisations
Joint letter to the Treasury opposing UK Guarantee Scheme’s support of biomass and incineration
On Wednesday 18 December at 2pm Biofuelwatch, Friends of the Earth, UK Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) and Campaign Against Climate Change delivered a joint letter calling on the Treasury to drop biomass electricity and waste incineration projects from their...
Letter to EPA by US environmental and community groups about federal permitting for biomass plants
Letter by US environmental and community groups in 23 US states to the EPA: Federal Permitting of Bioenergy Facilities