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A recent report by Estonia’s Court of Auditors has raised questions about the meteoric growth of Europe’s largest producer of wood pellets, Graanul Invest (GI). Biomass subsidies from the EU and its Member States were thought to...
18/09/2024
On 4 September 2024, the European Commission published the results of its Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture, an innovative exercise that, in a period of bitter strife, gathered farm lobby groups and NGOs around a...
The Netherlands have long been at the forefront of science-informed biomass policy-making, accepting that burning wood for energy production worsens the climate and biodiversity crises. They are now leading in ambitiously...
09/07/2024
The European Environment Agency (EEA) released (March 2024) its yearly overview of renewable energy deployment in the EU for 2022: 23% of the energy consumed in the EU during 2022 came from renewable sources, an increase driven...
07/05/2024
Overlogging and climate change are causing the collapse of European forest carbon sinks, and the EU risks not even meeting weak 2030 Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry (LULUCF) targets. There is therefore huge concern that...
07/02/2024
Electricity produced by burning wood pellets decreased in absolute terms for the first time in 2022, while wind and solar rose.
Driven by EU policy and strong national incentives for both industrial and residential use, the...
24/11/2023
In a trend that will greatly benefit forests if it catches on, the energy company Engie appears to be turning away from burning solid biomass.
12/07/2023
The RED negotiations' outcome underscores how little it matters that Parliament and EU citizens wish to protect forests, if it is more convenient to let the biomass industry burn them.
13/04/2023
As Renewable Energy Directive negotiations enter their final phase, EU decision-makers must prioritise the needs of EU citizens and forests over those of this irresponsible industry.
02/02/2023
The EU’s policy bioenergy policies are being repeated around the world. It is urgent that the EU realises the damage this is causing and disincentivises primary woody biomass in the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive.
18/11/2022
