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Coal phase-out must mean urgent closure of all coal power stations, including Drax, campaigners say
Press release by Biofuelwatch, Coal Action Network and Partnership for Policy Integrity, 18 November 2015 For immediate release COAL PHASE-OUT MUST MEAN URGENT CLOSURE OF ALL COAL POWER STATIONS, INCLUDING DRAX, CAMPAIGNERS SAY No mention of biomass electricity in...
Campaigners welcome Drax’s decision to pull out of destructive energy project
Campaigners welcome Drax's decision to pull out of destructive energy project: Biofuelwatch Media Advisory, 25th September 2015 Environmental campaigners welcome today’s news that Drax Plc has withdrawn from the proposed White Rose Project. The power station would...
International coalition of green groups speaks out against renewable energy subsidies being spent on biofuels and burning wood
Press release: Tuesday 8th September, 2015 International coalition of green groups speaks out against renewable energy subsidies being spent on biofuels and burning wood, warning of their disastrous impacts on biodiversity, communities and climate Briefing published...
Reports, briefings and presentations
Beware False Promises: Algal Oils and Other Products of Synthetic Biology Aren’t About to Save the Orangutan…. But Carry Serious New Risks.
Joint briefing by Biofuelwatch and Friends of the Earth United States: Beware False Promises: Algal Oils and Other Products of Synthetic Biology Aren’t About to Save the Orangutan.... But Carry Serious New Risks [add-this] “Algal oil” and “oily yeast” have been...
Response to Consultation on draft Convention on Biological Diversity reports on synthetic biology
Biofuelwatch response to the Consultation on the “Updated report and synthesis of views in response to paragraph 7(b) of decision XII/24” and the “Report of the meeting of the Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Synthetic Biology”
Briefings about the UK’s biomass greenhouse gas and sustainability standards
Biofuelwatch has published a policy analysis briefing about the UK's biomass sustainability greenhouse gas and sustainability standards, introduced 1st December 2015. Together with the Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI), we have also produced a briefing for MPs...
Responses
Response to Consent Application by Forth Energy for biomass burning power station in Leith
Objection to Forth Energy's biomass application in Leith
Electricity Market Reform
DECC Consultation on Electricity Market Reform, 23rd February 2011
Open letter – CDM and human rights abuses in Honduras
Open Letter against CDM palm oil biogas projects linked to human rights abuses in Honduras, Feb 2011
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Declaration of Nyeleni
Declaration signed by over 500 representatives of 80 countries in support of the right to food sovereignty. It includes a statement against “the ‘Green Deserts’ of industrial bio-fuel monocultures and other plantations”.
“Full tanks at the cost of empty stomachs”
Declaration on the Lula-Bush biofuels agreement, signed by Comissio Pastoral da Terra (CPT), Grito dos Excluidos, Movimento Sem Terra (MST), Servico Pastoral dos Migrantes (SPM), Rede Social de Justica e Direitos Humanos, Via Campesina.
Open Letter: “We Call On the EU to Abandon Targets For Biofuel Use in Europe”
A letter from 250 organisations and key individuals to the EU Council. Now closed for signatures. Available in the following languages: English, Deutsch, Italiano, Espanol, Portugues. Read the Signatories.