WRITTEN Responses from Drax Consultation Team 15/3/2021 Drax has also responded to questions from Biofuelwatch during a consultation in November 2021, in which it admitted a shocking lack of data about its own BECCS proposals. [Comments/explanations in green added by...
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NEW BOOK UNCOVERS CRITICAL CLIMATE CHANGE POLICY FLAWS AHEAD OF EARTH DAY
At a time when governments are rolling out climate change policies around the world, activists and experts from climate and environmental justice groups across North America and globally are explaining why real climate solutions must go beyond the greening of...
Joint Statement on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage by UK NGOs
19 environmental NGOs warn the UK government about the risks associated with Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) Click here for the full version with the list of signatories and references. March 2021 - The undersigned groups oppose using public funds to support industrial...
UK: Joint NGO Statement on BECCS
9 environmental organisations warn the UK government about the risks associated with Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) Read full statement here
NEWSLETTER Feb 2021
Dear Biofuelwatch supporter Welcome to our first newsletter of 2021 full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. Important reading for anyone who wants to see meaningful responses to climate change and who is...
Negative Emissions Technologies: can they deliver?
A negative emission technology (NET) is a technological approach to removing greenhouse gases that have already been emitted into the atmosphere. That differs from “mitigation” which focuses on preventing emissions in the first place. Aside from concerns about how...
Consultation response about carbon capture in UK
Biofuelwatch response to UK government consultation "Carbon capture, usage and storage (CCUS): business models"
Joint Response to UK Decarbonisation Enquiry
Joint response to Treasury Committee Inquiry "Decarbonisation of the UK Economy and Green Finance" by Biofuelwatch, Partnership for Policy Integrity, Dogwood Alliance, Southern Environmental Law Center, Fern, & Natural Resources Defense Council
BECCS: Discourse about unicorns descends into real-world farce
This month’s “breaking news” on BECCS: Small UK startup company to test some unproven new solvent nobody’s published anything about in order to help Drax put fizz into beer The ‘world’s first’ Bio Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) ‘pilot project’ has...
The Big Bad Fix: The Case Against Climate Geoengineering
---> Click here to view the report <--- “The Big Bad Fix – The Case Against Climate Geoengineering,” a report released today by ETC Group, Biofuelwatch and Heinrich Böll Foundation, warns that geoengineering (the large-scale manipulation of the climate) is...
UK Clean Growth Strategy based on dangerous illusions and false solutions – bioenergy
London 12 October 2017 From Biofuelwatch[1] For immediate release. The Government’s Clean Growth Strategy relies on growth of technologies that are not clean and one that is not feasible. The Clean Growth Strategy[2] speaks throughout of ‘sustainable biomass’, ‘clean’...
New summary BECCS report: Last ditch climate option or wishful thinking?
Biofuelwatch, in collaboration with Heinrich Böll Foundation, has re-released a summarised version of "Last-ditch climate option or wishful thinking? Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage". It offers the first critical and in-depth analysis of a technology that...
Biomass Resources
Contents 1.Resources on (wood) biomass for heat and power 2.Scientific studies and reports focussing on (wood) biomass for heat and power 3. Scientific articles and reports on potential impacts of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) 4. NGO...
Biofuewatch briefing about the White Rose “CCS” project
UPDATE: In September 2015, Drax announced that they were pulling out of this project which therefore now seems unlikely to go ahead. The White Rose “CCS” project: Why its "carbon capture" plans are doubtful and why public subsidies should not be spent on Drax’s new...