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Warning issued to investors: Forest biomass is risky business
Briefing by environmental groups highlights serious financial, legal and reputational risks 2nd May 2019 - The Environmental Paper Network [1], Global Forest Coalition [2] and Biofuelwatch [3] have today issued a briefing to investors [4] that highlights the...
Protesters denounce Drax’s ‘major contribution to UK climate change emissions’ outside company AGM
Two solidarity protests held outside Drax Power Station in York and in Sheffield London, 17th April – Climate justice campaigners held a colourful and musical protest outside Drax Plc’s Annual General Meeting in London earlier today, denouncing the company’s power...
Press release: 96,000 call on Secretary of State to refuse permission for largest-ever UK gas power station
London, 4th April 2019 - A petition of over 96,000 signatures [1] was handed to the Office of Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), Greg Clark this morning, accompanied by an Open Letter [2] signed by 92 organisations – and by a...
Reports, briefings and presentations
Biofuelwatch and Global Forest Coalition briefing about biomass sustainability standards
[add-this] Please click here to read full report Can sustainability and greenhouse gas standards protect the climate, forests and communities from the harmful impacts of wood-based bioenergy? Logging site from which Enviva pellet mill was supplied, North Carolina,...
What have we learned about biochar since 2011?
In 2011 Biofuelwatch published Biochar: A Critical Review of Science and Policy. In that report we highlighted the uncertainties about biochar including the large land area that would be required to supply biomass for a global scale impact, the contradictory results...
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...
Responses
Submission of information on Synthetic Biology to the Convention on Biological Diversity
Submission of information on Synthetic Biology to the Convention on Biological Diversity, prepared on behalf of Biofuelwatch by Rachel Smolker
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
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Open Letter to the UN and its Institutions Related to Forest Issues
OPEN LETTER TO THE UN AND ITS INSTITUTIONS AND INITIATIVES RELATED TO FOREST ISSUES(FAO, CBD, UNFCCC, UNCCD AND UNFF) 21 March – the first ´International Day of Forests´ An appeal to urgently halt forest destruction, addressing the underlying causes
Statement and Declaration by Affected Community Members from Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum Concessions
Liberia: Statement and Declaration by Affected Community Members from Sime Darby and Golden Veroleum Concessions
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