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Biomass (solid)
Drax’s greenwashing and lobbying efforts in the UK
Summary: Drax uses advertising, lobbying meetings, donations, educational resources, academic research and sponsorship of events to gain public and political support for its tree burning and to present the company as benevolent and part of the climate solution when...
Axe Drax report 2025
Axe Drax: For Forests, Communities and the Climate, May 2025 Drax 2025 report update
Sustainable Biomass Program: Certifying the Unsustainable
Joint report by Solutions for Our Climate, Global Environmental Forum, Mighty Earth, Biofuelwatch, and Biomass Action Network of the Environmental Paper Network Click here to download the report Executive Summary Faced with pressure to meet climate commitments and...
Biofuels (liquid)
No biofuels for shipping – videos
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Burning HVO for electricity and heat in Ireland – climate and environmental impacts
Biofuelwatch briefing about the impacts of irish government support for Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil Click here to download the full report Summary: Despite well-established fraud and sustainability concerns, the Irish government is pushing ahead with supporting HVO...
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...
Industrial tree plantations, incl. GE trees and short-rotation coppicing
GE Trees: Presentation to the National Academy of Sciences
Forests in Crisis - but Biotechnology is not the Solution On 27th March 2018, members of Biofuelwatch and Global Justice Ecology presented evidence to the National Academies of Sciences via a webinar about the impacts and dangers of genetically engineered...
Biofuelwatch report from Stop GE delegation to Chile
Last month, Biofuelwatch joined a delegation in Chile coordinated by the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered (GE) Trees to investigate the impacts of industrial tree plantations and share information about the threats posed by GE trees. Given growing...
On International Day for Forests, FAO celebrates cutting them down for energy
La versión en Español de esta página web estará disponible próximamente en www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2017/fao-día-Internacional-bosques 21st March has been declared International Day for Forests by the UN. Shockingly, the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation...
Regional
Critique of UNIQUE GmbH’s report “Greenhouse Gas Assessment of Bush Control and Biomass Utilization in Namibia”:
Background: Since 2013, the German government has been financing a development and climate finance project in Namibia called “Bush Control and Biomass Utilisation (BCBU)”. It is managed by the German Development Corporation, GIZ. Since 2019, the project’s focus has...
240 Civil Society Groups Call on Indonesian Government to Investigate Suspicious Death of Indonesian Environmental Human Rights Defender
London, 31st October 2019 - In solidarity with Indonesian colleagues[1], Biofuelwatch has joined civil society groups around the world to call on the Indonesian government to launch a thorough and transparent investigation...
Social Cohesion Trumps Agrofuels in Andhra Pradesh
Report by Deepak Rughani, Biofuelwatch
Biochar
What have we learned about biochar since 2011?
In 2011 Biofuelwatch published Biochar: A Critical Review of Science and Policy. In that report we highlighted the uncertainties about biochar including the large land area that would be required to supply biomass for a global scale impact, the contradictory results...
Comments for CBD Consultation about Geoengineering
Biofuelwatch comments about biochar and Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage, submitted by Rachel Smolker to the Convention on Biological Diversity's consultation "Update on climate geoengineering in relation to the Convention on Biological Diversity potential...
Biochar’s Unproven Claims – Factsheet
Biochar's Unproven Claims A 3-page factsheet summing up the main findings of the 2011 Biofuelwatch report "Biochar: A Critical Report of Science and Policy" as well as recent scientific and policy developments, substantially updated 1st July 2013
Air Pollution from Bioenergy
Power Plant Emissions During Startup and Shutdown
Biofuelwatch briefing summarising the evidence about increased power plant emissions during startup and shutdown periods
Burning Wood in Power Stations – Public Health Impacts
Burning Wood in Power Stations: Public Health Impacts , Biofuelwatch briefing
Trees, Trash, and Toxics: How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal
Trees, Trash, and Toxics: How Biomass Energy Has Become the New Coal, by Mary S. Booth, Partnership for Policy Integrity
Carbon trading in agriculture, soils and forests
Carbon trading in forests, soils, farmlands and grasslands
Guide for journalists to proposals on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry and carbon trading for COP 16 Report by Global Forest Coalition, Biofuelwatch, Econexus Guide for journalists to proposals on Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry and carbon trading for COP...
Carbon Market Dreams – Briefing for Cancun Climate Negotiations
Report by Econexus and Biofuelwatch.
Briefing on LULUCF (Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry)
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Synthetic biology
No Place for Gene Drives in Conservation
A Call For Conservation with Conscience: No Place For Gene Drives in Conservation. A letter initiated by the Civil Society Working Group on Gene Drives, signed by scientists and civil society organisations
Mascoma: The biggest mis-spending of public funds for cellulosic biofuels ever?
Biofuelwatch investigation into Mascoma Corporation, who took at least $100 million and possibly over $155 million in public subsidies, mostly for building commercial cellulosic ethanol refineries which they never started to build. [add-this] Executive Summary: This...
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...