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Although progress has been made towards delivering a renewable energy plan that will help meet climate ambitions, much uncertainty remains on details before trilogue negotiations.
22/09/2022
After the Council fails to defend the future of forests, it now falls to the European Parliament and the Commission to reaffirm the rules’ purpose and to restrict loopholes.
13/07/2022
For the first time, a major EU regulatory body has concluded that one of the EU’s most climate-wrecking policies of the last decade - incentivising the burning of forests in the name of renewable energy - has to stop.
20/05/2022
The world’s climate and biodiversity are in a perilous state; there is no time to waste: the EU must ensure the revised Renewable Energy Directive discourages forest destruction.
06/05/2022
A coalition of 25+ NGOs wrote to Germany’s new Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, Robert Habeck to end the EU incentives for woody biomass burning in energy production.
23/12/2021
Public opposition to biomass burning is based on a variety of negative impacts.
09/07/2020
Consideration of bioenergy’s external costs is fundamental for assessing compatibility of state aid.
10/06/2020
Germany has a chance to raise climate ambition and shape three important relationships.
Civil society groups condemn Estonian Government’s support for unsustainable forest management practices and its rejection of the Forestry Development Plan impact assessment.
12/05/2020
On December 11, the European Commission, now headed by former German defence minister Ursula von der Leyen, published its long awaited proposal for a European Green Deal.
It contains two standalone forest initiatives as well as...
11/12/2019