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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...
The Nightmare Before Christmas – Future GE Chestnuts: Ho Ho NO!
The nightmare before Christmas: Future GE Chestnuts: Ho Ho NO!, Press release by Global Justice Ecology Project, Indigenous Environment Network and Biofuelwatch, Stop GE Trees Coalition New York (15 December 2015)– In the midst of the holiday season, while thoughts...
Report warns of science-fiction solution being promoted at Paris Climate Conference
Report warns of science-fiction solution being promoted at Paris Climate Conference Paris, 1st December 2015 - The first in-depth and critical analysis of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) [1], a so-called “negative emissions” technology favoured by...
Reports, briefings and presentations
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...
Video: #AxeDrax: North Carolina farmers speak out about the destruction of their forests
Video with interviews with farmers from North Carolina speaking about the destruction of forests in their region to make pellets which are burned by Drax
Solazyme/Terra Via: Synthetic Biology Company Claimed to be Capable of Replacing Palm Oil Struggles to Stay Afloat
Solazyme/Terra Via: Synthetic Biology Company Claimed to be Capable of Replacing Palm Oil Struggles to Stay Afloat [Update: In March 2016,Solazyme announced that they are changing their name to TerraVia] A Biofuelwatch investigation of a Californian company which has...
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
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
“In defence of food sovereignty and biodiversity”
Declaration of the First Patagonian Conference on Biofuels, Argentina, signed by Coalition of Popular Assemblies of the provinces of Chubut, Rio Negro and Neuquen, Patagonia, Public Workers Union (ATE), Argentine Central Workers Association (CTA), Provincial Teachers...
Official Declaration of Chake Ñuhá on the Agro-fuels and Environmental Services Traps
Declaration, Paraguay, signed by ALTER VIDA, ASAGRAPA, BASE IS, CCDA, CEIDRA, CMB, CNOCIP, CONAMURI, Federacion de Pueblos Guaranies, GRR (Arg), IDECO, Iniciativa Paraguaya de Integracion de los Pueblos, MAP, MCNOC, ONAC, SEPA, SERPAJ, PY, SOBREVIVENCIA/Friends of the...