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Press release: Open Letter Calls on Ireland to Reject West Offaly Power Station extension and biomass conversion
Groups Demand Ireland Protect Forests & Our Climate Open Letter Calls on Ireland to Reject West Offaly Power Station extension and biomass conversion - for immediate release – 31st January 2019 - An Open Letter signed by 33 environmental NGOs objecting to biomass...
Finland’s Neste set to drive aviation palm oil deforestation, new report shows
9th January 2019 - A report published by the environmental NGO Biofuelwatch [1] reveals that the Finnish biofuel and oil company Neste, which expects to become the world’s biggest producer of aviation biofuels in 2019 [2], relies heavily on palm oil, a leading cause...
Drax takeover of ScottishPower’s hydro and gas power assets is bad news for the climate, campaigners warn
Biofuelwatch warns that Drax’s acquisition of hydro assets could spell the end for ambitious Scottish scheme to expand Cruachan pumped storage plant, vital for running the grid on low-carbon renewable energy 21st December 2018 - With Drax shareholders set to approve...
Reports, briefings and presentations
COP25 Is Perpetuating a Culture of Impunity for Human Rights Violations
Monoculture Tree Plantations, Bioenergy and Pollution Trading in Chile: United Nations COP25 Perpetuates Impunity By Gary Graham Hughes, California Policy Monitor, Biofuelwatch [add-this] The austral spring of 2019 will mark a historical watershed in the history of...
Biofuelwatch report about climate finance for biomass cookstoves
Improved biomass cookstoves: should they receive climate finance? Report by Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch that contributes to Global Forest Coalition research into German climate finance. Summary: Clean and efficient biomass cookstoves have been attracting...
240 Civil Society Groups Call on Indonesian Government to Investigate Suspicious Death of Indonesian Environmental Human Rights Defender
London, 31st October 2019 - In solidarity with Indonesian colleagues[1], Biofuelwatch has joined civil society groups around the world to call on the Indonesian government to launch a thorough and transparent investigation...
Responses
Response to Defra’s Review of Local Air Quality Management Consultation on regulatory and guidance changes
Biofuelwatch response to Defra's consultation Review of Local Air Quality Management Consultation on regulatory and guidance changes, published December 2014
Further representation about REACT’s application for a biomass gasifier in Plymouth
Further representation about REACT's application for a biomass gasifier in Plymouth
Avonmouth biomass gasifier application: Joint Letter to Councillors
Joint letter to Councillors regarding Nexterra/Balfour Beatty planning application for an 11 MW biomass gasifier in Avonmouth, by Avon Coalition Against Big Biofuels, Avonmouth Dust Forum and Biofuelwatch
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
International organisations condemn repression and criminalisation of peasant organisations of the Bajo Aguan, Honduras
International organisations condemn repression and criminalisation of peasant organisations of the Bajo Aguan, Honduras
Land grabbing by pension funds and other financial institutions must be stopped
Land grabbing by pension funds and other financial institutions must be stopped - Civil society statement on the finance of land grabs
Indigenous Terra Livre Declaration at Rio+20
Indigenous Terra Livre Declaration at Rio+20: Final Declaration of Freen Land Camp IX - Living Well/Healthy Full Life