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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
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...
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...
Responses
Objection to 2nd Hargreaves application in Sheffield
Objection to 2nd Hargreaves/Rocpower application in Ecclesfield, Sheffield
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
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
“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...
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”.