Photo by Axe Drax Biofuelwatch, The Axe Drax Group and The Stop Burning Trees Coalition Press Release Climate justice campaigners denounce Drax-sponsored events at Labour Party Conference 27th September 2022 - Climate justice campaigners and Labour Party members...
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Biofuelwatch briefing about proposals to use bioenergy for hydrogen production
Why hydrogen from bioenergy cannot reduce greenhouse gas emissions Deutsche Version Click here to download Executive Summary: Hydrogen is being strongly promoted by governments, especially in Europe and North America, as part of their ‘net zero’ climate strategies....
NEWSLETTER Aug 2022
Welcome to our latest newsletter of 2022, full of updates about campaigns that we – and you – have been supporting, and policy developments. Click below to share this newsletter! Sign up to mailing list Please Object To Drax’s Dangerous Carbon Capture Plans...
Huntly Power Station Conversion Briefing (NSW, Australia)
Converting Huntly Power Plant to Biomass: Impacts on Forests and Climate Click here to download the briefing with references Genesis Energy has started is trialling burning black wood pellets in Huntly Power Station, New Zealand’s largest power plant and the only one...
Open Letter to Dutch House of Representatives
Joint open letter by 31 organisations from the Netherlands and five countries exporting wood pellets burned in Dutch power plants Click here to download the letter with references and list of signatories Klik hier voor de Nederlandse versie van de brief. Open Letter...
Joint Statement against Hamburg Senate proposal to burn wood or fossil gas in the Tiefstack plant
Hamburg needs an exit from coal, fossil gas and wood! Joint statement by 37 German and international organisations against ongoing climate change emissions by Hamburgs heat and power plant Tiefstack Update: In December 2024, Hamburg's Environment Minister and the...
Response to the Scottish Government National Planning Framework 4 Consultation
Biofuelwatch response to the Scottish Government National Planning Framework 4 Consultation (31 March 2022): https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MgSqHtveX8w3kTCFfI74zkH9XSgfW55ASKmaed47k1M/edit
Blackrock: Investing in biomass energy harms forests, climate and communities
New Biofuelwatch briefing about BlackRock's harmful investments in energy from forest and tree plantation wood, coinciding with BlackRock's 2022 AGM. Highlighting their investments in Drax, Graanul Invest's new owners Apollo Global Management, Albioma S.A. and their...
Joint Letter: Keep Bioenergy out of REPower EU
Click here to read the letter with full references and to see the list of signatories. Letter sent to President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, Executive Vice President for the Green Deal Frans Timmermans, and EU Commissioners Janusz...
Environmental and climate justice campaigner hold Day of Action urging Vattenfall to move Beyond Burning
Street protests in Germany, Netherlands and UK accompanied by international social media action, denouncing Vattenfall’s investments in wood bioenergy as well as continued fossil fuel burning 27th April 2022 - Today, ahead of tomorrow’s Vattenfall AGM, banner protests...
Dutch government rules out new subsidies for burning wood for energy
Good news from the Netherlands, where campaign groups have been working hard to stop the burning of wood, much of it imported, in heat and power stations. In February 2021, the Dutch Parliament adopted a temporary stop to rule out new subsidies for biomass heat...
Open Letter to Vattenfall urging them to stop burning carbon including wood
Letter to Ms Anna Borg, Vattenfall CEO, CC to Mr Martijn Hagens (CEO Vattenfall Netherlands), Mr Alexander Van Ofwegen (Director of Heat Vattenfall Netherlands), Ms Tanja Wielgoss (Chairwoman of the Board Vattenfall Wärme Berlin AG), Mr Karl-Petter Thorwaldsson,...
Vattenfall’s Wood Bioenergy Investments and Plans
Joint briefing by Biofuelwatch and the Environmental Paper Network's Forests, Climate and Biomass Working Group Updated April 2024 - Note that since then, Vattenfall has sold its biomass and other heat generation and distribution assets in Berlin to the City, and has...
BECCS Factsheet April 2023
Download our BECCS factsheet with a focus on Drax's proposal to capture CO2 from two of its large biomass units in Yorkshire.
New Report: Biomass Burning Less Important to UK’s Coal Phaseout than Wind and Solar
A new report published today by Biofuelwatch has revealed that bioenergy has played a smaller role in the UK’s coal phase out than solar and wind energy, or reductions in electricity demand. In the ten years between 2011 and 2020 the UK almost entirely phased out the...
Educational resources – biomass
Biomass – sustainable solution or eco-disaster? This session will give a brief introduction to biomass and outline the harmful impacts of large scale biomass production on natural habitats, communities and the climate. The session will include an introduction to...
Campaigners: Drax must cease buying Belarussian wood pellets today and stop their help in funding the war against Ukraine
London, 4th March – While the CEO of Drax says “our thoughts are with the Ukrainian people” [1], his company’s announcement to stop pellet imports from Russia but not from Belarus [2] means that they’re continuing to trade with one of the two countries...
French company’s greenwashing unveiled: converted energy plants depend on imported forest wood, not sugarcane
A joint article by Environmental Paper Network, Biofuelwatch and Dogwood Alliance exposes Albioma's greenwashing of their coal-to-biomass conversions in the French Overseas Territories Martinique, Gudeloupe and Réunion The French energy company Albioma is in the...