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Press Release – Say no to Drax powered data centres
Press Release - Say no to Drax powerered data centres
Neues Factsheet Biomasse-Business: Wie das Unternehmen EPH Wäldern und Klima schadet
Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von Biofuelwatch, ROBIN WOOD und NABU Berlin, 4.6.2025 – Der tschechische Energiekonzern EPH und seine deutschen Tochterunternehmen LEAG und MIBRAG setzen vermehrt auf Holzbiomasse. Dies führt zu enormen Schäden für Wälder, Artenvielfalt...
Neue EU-Regeln zur Holzenergie: Frist zur Umsetzung in nationales Recht verstreicht
Umweltorganisationen fordern neue Bundesminister*innen mit offenem Brief zum schnellen Handeln auf Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung von NABU, ROBIN WOOD und Biofuelwatch, 21.5.2025 Heute läuft die Frist zur Umsetzung der novellierten EU-Richtlinie für Erneuerbare Energie...
Reports, briefings and presentations
What the biofuels industry doesn’t want you to know
What’s really in your ‘sustainable’ biofuels? Click here to download Biofuelwatch's report about the ISCC Biofuels, especially palm oil, have long been associated with deforestation. That’s why Germany set up the ISCC (International Sustainability and Carbon...
Whistleblowers reveal profound failure of ISCC to implement biofuel “sustainability standards”
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Biofuelwatch Briefing on the Contract for Different Statutory Instrument
Biofuelwatch Briefing on the Contract for Different Statutory Instrument
Responses
Response to European Commission consultation on LULUCF Regulation
Response to European Commission consultation about EU rules on LULUCF - evaluation Preventing the worst impacts of the climate crisis requires rapid phasing out CO2 emissions as well as strengthening the ability of natural ecosystems to sequester and store carbon. We...
Joint response to UK government consultation about ‘Transitional Subsidies’ for Drax and Lynemouth Power stations
Joint Response by Biofuelwatch and Stop Burning Trees to DESNZ consultation about Transitional Subsidies for large-scale biomass electricity plants (i.e. Drax and Lynemouth Power Stations)
Biofuelwatch’s objections to Drax’s BECCS application
Drax has applied for development consent for its BECCS project, a nationally significant infrastructure project. Biofuelwatch has objected via the examination process on a number of grounds. Our submissions to the planning inspectorate, along with those of many others...
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Offener Brief: Deutschland muss die Verbrennung von Waldholz endlich eindämmen
Offener Brief and Bundesminister für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz Robert Habeck, 14.9.2023 Unterzeichnet von NABU, Deutsche Umwelthilfe, ROBIN WOOD, Biofuelwatch, WWF Deutschland
Joint Letter to Dutch MPs ahead of Biomass Roundtable
Joint Letter by BiofuelwAtch, Dogwood Alliance, Natural Resources Defense Council and Save Estonia's Forests, 12th June 2023 Click here for a fully referenced version Click here to read the letter in Dutch Dear Sir/Madam, We are writing you on behalf of Biofuelwatch,...
Open Letter to Vattenfall
Vatenfall must stop destroying forests and worsening climate chaos Vattenfall is today preventing young climate activists from attending their annual general meeting. In Vattenfall’s Notice to attend, it says: "The Annual General Meeting is open to the general...