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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...
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...
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
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
National Policy Statements for Energy Infrastructure
Response to consultation on revised draft National Policy Statements for energy infrastructure, January 2011.
Forth Energy, Dundee
Objection to Forth Energy Biomass Power station in Dundee
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.