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RWE: Fossile Brennstoffe, Klimakolonialismus und Menschenrechtsverletzungen
Gemeinsame Pressemitteilung vom Dachverband Kritische Aktionäre, Urgewald, European Centre for Constitutional and Human rights und Biofuelwatch Ein internationales Bündnis von Nichtregierungsorganisationen fordert die RWE AG auf ihrer Hauptversammlung am Mittwoch...
ONG mundiales piden a la Organización Marítima Internacional que rechace los biocombustibles y se comprometa al uso de energías verdaderamente limpias
LONDRES / UTRECHT, 31 de marzo de 2025 – Antes de la última ronda de negociaciones de la Organización Marítima Internacional (OMI) (31 de marzo – 1 de abril ISWG-GHG-19, 7 – 11 de abril MEPC83) sobre medidas para lograr emisiones “netas cero” de gases de efecto...
Global NGOs Call on International Maritime Org to Reject Biofuels and Commit to Truly Clean Energy
LONDON / UTRECHT, 31 March 2025 – As the International Maritime Organization (IMO) prepares to finalize negotiations (31 March – 1 April ISWG-GHG-19, 7 – 11 April MEPC83) on key measures for achieving net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in international shipping,...
Reports, briefings and presentations
Beating Europe’s forests to a pulp
The scale of biomass-burning at the EU's pulp and paper mills - Joint Report by Biofuelwatch and Environmental Paper Network Click here to download the report as a pdf Summary This investigation aims to quantify the scale of primary woody biomass burning for energy...
What’s wrong with the newly announced subsidies for burning wood for electricity?’ MP Briefing – March 2025
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Real links between wildfires and biomass energy in Portugal
Report by Acrescimo, IRIS, Quercus and BiofUelwatch Click here to download the report Introduction The Pilling on the Pressure report, published at the beginning of 2023, together with Biofuelwatch, revealed a worrying trend (see graph on page 7): according to the...
Responses
Call for evidence – Keeping the power on: our future energy technology mix. Biofuelwatch’s response.
Keeping the power on: our future energy technology mix. Biofuelwatch evidence to the DESNZ Select Committee. Click here to download our response Biofuelwatch's response to the Department for Energy and Net Zero Select Committee's call for evidence Keeping the power...
Response to European Commission consultation on Industrial Carbon Management Strategy
https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/13848-Industrial-carbon-management-carbon-capture-utilisation-and-storage-deployment/F3434930_en
Gezamenlijke brief aan Nederlandse Kamerleden voorafgaand aan Rondetafel Biomassa
Gezamenlijke brief dd 12 juni 2023 Klik hier om een volledige versie van de brief (met referenties) te lezen. Klik hier om de brief in het Engels te lezen. Geachte Kamerlid, Biofuelwatch, NRDC, Dogwood Alliance en Save Estonia’s Forests benaderen u vooruitlopend op de...
Declarations, joint statements and open letters
Civil society statement denouncing Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil
Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil: 19 years is enough Click here to read the statement with hyperlinks and the list of signatories This year's general assembly of the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO), which begins on 1 December 2022 in Malaysia, marks the...
Real Zero Europe Statement
To avoid the worst effects of climate chaos, we must radically transform systems and achieve Real Zero Click here to download the joint statement with the list of signatories in English, Spanish, French, German or Italian To avoid the worst effects of climate chaos,...
Open Letter to Governor Cooper: Stop the expansion of the wood pellet industry
Biofuelwatch and 71 other environmental and climate justice organisations based in the UK have written an open letter to Governor Cooper to ask him to stop the expansion of the wood pellet industry in North Carolina. Enviva is applying to expand production at...