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Fossil gas is largely supplied to the EU by foreign authoritarian regimes (Norway being an exception), and biomass use at the industrial scale destroys forests and undermines the EU’s land sink. Increasingly, however,...
05/03/2025
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...
Climate scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recognised that if we did not decarbonise fast enough, then more CO2 would need to be removed from the atmosphere than what we currently let ecosystems do....
04/03/2025
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
Securing a just energy transition to reduce the EU’s legacy reliance on wood burning
18/02/2025
Politicians are clutching on to carbon capture technologies as a climate solution – just as evidence mounts of its failures, writes Kerstin Meyer.
05/02/2025
Two decades ago, when the EU started incentivising burning wood as a form of renewable energy and counting CO2 emissions from wood combustion as ‘zero’ in the energy sector, it was possibly unaware that this would considerably...
13/11/2024
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
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
