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A civil society statement on EU bioenergy policy
Eighty-two civil society organisations and networks from Europe and beyond have launched 'Beyond Bioenergy', a statement calling the EU to stop rewarding burning trees and crops in...
05/03/2025
A study comparing the use of wood for insultation and fuel
Wood is precious, beautiful, and has multiple uses, but not all are equally beneficial, and there is only a limited amount available.
Despite forests being under...
25/02/2025
EU flagship BECCS project will burn forests and public capital but won’t help the climate
As part of its climate action, the EU is preparing to scale up carbon dioxide removal technologies, to reduce carbon dioxide levels in the...
12/11/2024
How sustainable is the wood burned in EU power plants, which EU taxpayers are paying billions of euros for every year?
The report Mass Imbalance reveals that the EU does not really know, because it cannot know.
The reason? Its...
25/09/2024
Fern commissioned EU bioenergy and forest policy expert Duncan Brack to analyse Drax and Exergi’s proposed methodology, and he identified severe shortcomings. This analysis of Drax and Exergi’s proposal highlights the problems with relying on the very companies that would benefit from the building and operating industrial removals projects to create EU methodologies.
26/03/2024
The European wood pellets market has been the world's largest for more than 15 years, driven by EU renewable energy policies authorising EU Member States to subsidise energy companies burning wood and the purchase of wood pellets...
27/11/2023
New Fern/ClientEarth briefing: A guide on how to transpose the EU’s revised Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) to better protect forests, the climate, public health and other wood-using industries
09/11/2023
The potential of forests to supply the European bioeconomy
26/10/2023
How will people and forests survive the energy crisis?
16/11/2022
Will the EU biomass loophole give a lifeline to energy giant EPH’s coal power plants?
08/09/2022
