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UK Clean Growth Strategy based on dangerous illusions and false solutions – bioenergy
London 12 October 2017 From Biofuelwatch[1] For immediate release. The Government’s Clean Growth Strategy relies on growth of technologies that are not clean and one that is not feasible. The Clean Growth Strategy[2] speaks throughout of ‘sustainable biomass’, ‘clean’...
Almost 100 Organisations Worldwide Condemn UN Aviation Agency’s Biofuel Plans
Almost 100 Organisations Worldwide Condemn UN Aviation Agency’s Biofuel Plans London, Embargoed for 10th October, 00:01 AM BST (midnight from Monday to Tuesday) An in-depth report released by Biofuelwatch last week [4] shows that feedstocks (raw materials used to...
Forests not Fuel! Bioenergy conference greeted by forest and climate protesters
PRESS RELEASE 4th October 2017Protesters have gathered outside an international bioenergy conference at the Sheraton Hotel to object to forest destruction in the USA for wood to burn in UK power stations. The protesters are targeting Enviva, the world’s largest wood...
Reports, briefings and presentations
UK Coal Phaseout to be introduced with dangerous loopholes and delays
Biofuelwatch briefing about the UK Government's coal phaseout decision announced in January 2018. "The Government announced in 2015 that it seeks to end coal burning for electricity within a decade, albeit only if “ a shift to new gas can be achieved within these...
The Big Bad Fix: The Case Against Climate Geoengineering
---> Click here to view the report <--- “The Big Bad Fix – The Case Against Climate Geoengineering,” a report released today by ETC Group, Biofuelwatch and Heinrich Böll Foundation, warns that geoengineering (the large-scale manipulation of the climate) is...
The Big Bad Fix: The Case Against Climate Geoengineering
Joint report by Heinrich Böll Foundation, ETC Group and Biofuelwatch, 6th December 2017 Click here to download: https://www.boell.de/en/2017/12/01/big-bad-fix-case-against-geoengineering The “Big Bad Fix” provides policy makers, journalists, NGO...
Responses
Joint response to the draft High Level Panel of Experts on Biofuels and Food Security report
Response by Biofuelwatch, EcoNexus and Global Forest Coalition to the Draft O report by the High Level Panel of Experts on Biofuels and Food Security Click here to see the draft report and here to see the list of all responses.
Letter to Adur Councillors
Leaflet with letter to Adur Councillors opposing Edgeley Green Power's application for a 32 MW biofuel power station in Shoreham-on-Sea
Objection to application for a biomass gasifier by Energy Park Sutton Bridge Ltd
Biofuelwatch objection to Energy Park Sutton Bridge's planning application for a 48MW biomass gasification plant
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Palm Oil Plantations Will Never Be Sustainable
Open Letter.
Abandon False Solutions. Abandon Biofuels.
Press Statement by Peasant Movement of the Philippines, National Federation of Peasant Women in the Philippines, People's Action on Climate Change.
Malaysian Indigenous Peoples want moratorium on plantations, other extractive projects
Declaration by Malaysian Indigenous Peoples Organisations Coalition.