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European Commission risks repeating mistakes with its flawed proposals on bioenergy sustainability

Today Politico has leaked the European Commission’s draft Winter Package on Climate and Energy which is expected to be released on November 30. The draft includes a major overhaul of the EU’s electricity market, and new rules for...

15/11/2016

Blogs

Bioenergy and social injustice in North Carolina

Our Bioenergy campaigner, Linde Zuidema, has been visiting the South-East United States to witness how forests are being destroyed to produce wood pellets for the EU energy market. Here she discovers the impact of the industry on...

15/11/2016

Blogs

Guest blog: Green Invasion

Europe’s once peaceful forests are being invaded - in the name of green energy. To meet European Union policies for reducing greenhouse gas emissions and promoting renewable electricity and heating, governments from France to...

15/11/2016

Press Releases

People across globe tell European Union: New bioenergy policies must protect climate, crops, forests

At a time when EU’s taxpayers are funding bioenergy projects that are worsening global warming and destroying forests, this press release shows how an international day of action on bioenergy galvanised environmentalists and...

20/10/2016

Blogs

Sweden: Saving nature by destroying it?

In Dalarna, Sweden’s reputation for protecting nature and promoting sustainable forestry might appear well justified. 

Unbroken rows of pine forests, glimmering lakes and jutting mountain ranges dominate a landscape in which...

20/10/2016

Reports

A dangerous delusion: Debunking the myths around sustainable forests and the EU’s bioenergy policy

A Dangerous Delusion exposes the myth that problems don’t exist with biomass from Europe’s forests – where the EU sources most of its biomass – because they are managed sustainably. It includes case studies on Sweden, Romania,...

19/10/2016

Briefing Notes

Quemar árboles para generar energía no es solución para el cambio climático

Tanto la biomasa como los combustibles fósiles liberan dióxido de carbono al quemarse, y las temperaturas globales están aumentando debido a ello. Esta nota informativa explica por qué el uso de la madera para producir...

14/10/2016

Reports

A new sustainable bioenergy policy

The European Commission has announced that it will propose a new and improved bioenergy sustainability policy for the use of biomass in heating, electricity and transport as part of its Climate and Energy Package for 2030.

This...

05/09/2016

Reports

A comparison of national sustainability schemes for solid biomass in the EU

There are no harmonised sustainability criteria for bioenergy or the sourcing of biomass across the European Union (EU). EU Member States have therefore largely relied on domestic Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) rules to guide...

26/07/2016

Up In Flames: How biomass burning wrecks Europe’s forests

This new report by Fred Pearce for Fern shows that Europe’s forests are being invaded in the name of green energy. The report focuses on a number of forests in Europe and the US, that are under threat by this push for bioenergy,...

03/06/2016