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Historic vote on no longer burning trees for energy needs to be defended

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

Keeping bioenergy out of REPower EU

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 Wojciechowski, Kadri Simson, Stella Kyriakides and Virginijus...

16/05/2022

News, Forest Watch

European biomass industry confirms it is burning large amounts of “low-quality stemwood” (tree trunks)

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

Briefing Notes

Six problems with BECCS

The ongoing Fit For 55 discussions aim to increase Europe’s ambition in the fight against climate change, including the role of land in contributing to these efforts. As part of a larger debate on the role of negative emissions to...

11/03/2022

Forest Watch

Is the EU poised to improve public financing of forest management?

If MEPs and Member States can withstand the bioenergy lobby’s onslaught, the Fit for 55 climate package could finally bring meaningful changes to the EU’s forest policies. 

02/02/2022

News, NGO Statements

NGOs send an Open Letter to German Minister Habeck: "We must end EU incentives for woody biomass in energy production"

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

Forest Watch

Biomass: new, troubling data on use and subsidies in the EU

Biomass remains a false solution to an increasingly pressing climate and biodiversity crisis.

09/11/2021

News, NGO Statements

NGOs: "To protect nature and the climate, we must reform how bioenergy is treated in the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive"

This position paper, signed by 32 NGOs from across Europe, outlines how the EU can create a bioenergy policy that civil society and citizens can support.

05/11/2021

Briefing Notes

What does ‘Fit for 55’ mean for forests?

Why the European Commission's 2030 climate and energy proposal is unfit for forests.

27/07/2021

Press Releases

Forests sacrificed for EU climate policy

Today, the European Commission released its revised 2030 climate and energy package. Despite overwhelming scientific evidence that burning forest biomass accelerates climate change and destroys biodiversity, the Commission ignored...

14/07/2021