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Civil society groups call on UN Agency to withdraw misleading report about second generation biofuel market
For Immediate Release: April 6th, 2016 Contact: Almuth Ernsting, Biofuelwatch Co-Director, +44 131 6232 600, biofuelwatch@ymail.com Civil society groups call on UN Agency to withdraw misleading report about second generation biofuel market Edinburgh, Scotland –Today...
Biofuelwatch releases critical report on Biomass Power Station Gasification Proposal in Milford Haven
Biofuelwatch press release for immediate use: 17 February 2016 Biofuelwatch releases critical report on Biomass Power Station Gasification Proposal in Milford Haven An environmental campaigning organisation has today published a report [1] on a biomass gasification...
Destructive biofuels and wood-based biomass out of next Renewable Energy Directive say 120 organisations to EU renewables consultation
Campaigners say: False solutions to climate change do not cut emissions but damage land and livelihoods in other countries 10th February 2016 - 120 civil society organisations and networks from across the globe have published a declaration today, calling for bioenergy...
Reports, briefings and presentations
Mascoma: The biggest mis-spending of public funds for cellulosic biofuels ever?
Biofuelwatch investigation into Mascoma Corporation, who took at least $100 million and possibly over $155 million in public subsidies, mostly for building commercial cellulosic ethanol refineries which they never started to build. [add-this] Executive Summary: This...
New summary BECCS report: Last ditch climate option or wishful thinking?
Biofuelwatch, in collaboration with Heinrich Böll Foundation, has re-released a summarised version of "Last-ditch climate option or wishful thinking? Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage". It offers the first critical and in-depth analysis of a technology that...
Open Letter to UNCTAD: Withdraw misleading advanced biofuels report
Today Biofuelwatch and six other groups (Center for Biological Diversity, ETC Group, Friends of the Earth U.S., Global Justice Ecology Project, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy and International Center for Technology Assessment) have called on the UN...
Responses
Biofuelwatch response to “Consultations on changes to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation to transpose the Renewable Energy Directive and changes to the Fuel Quality Directive
Biofuelwatch response to "Consultations on changes to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation to transpose the Renewable Energy Directive and changes to the Fuel Quality Directive
US Dept of Agriculture – technical guidelines on GHG emissions & carbon sequestration in agriculture and forestry
Biofuelwatch comments to US Department of Agriculture on “Development of Technical Guidelines and Scientific Methods for Quantifying GHG Emissions and Carbon Sequestration for Agricultural and Forestry Activities” April 2011
Objection to 2nd Hargreaves application in Sheffield
Objection to 2nd Hargreaves/Rocpower application in Ecclesfield, Sheffield
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Response by five African NGOs to UK biofuel targets
Response to UK biofuel consultation, by Africa Biodiversity Network, Kenya; Melca Mahiber, Ethiopia; Envirocare, Tanzania; Climate and Development Initiatives, Uganda; Nature Tropicale, Benin.
Open Letter against GM trees for biofuels
Open Letter signed by 55 organisations from North to South.
Call for an immediate moratorium on EU incentives for agrofuels, EU imports of agrofuels and EU agroenergy monocultures
Call for an immediate moratorium on EU incentives for agrofuels, EU imports of agrofuels and EU agroenergy monocultures