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This letter to Commissioner Bulc explains why NGOs are concerned about his statement that “Biofuels are the ‘best choice’ at this point to start to decarbonize the industry”. Relying on large-scale biofuel cultivation leads to...
26/01/2017
In January of this year, the European Commission launched an investigation into whether the UK government’s financial support for Drax to convert part of its coal power plant to operate on biomass breaches the European Union’s...
07/12/2016
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
Ce briefing d’écris comment l'utilisation de bois comme source d’énergie renouvelable peut augmenter les émissions de dioxyde de carbone. Expliquant ainsi le fléau de l'hypothèse selon laquelle toute l'utilisation de la biomasse...
14/10/2016
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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
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
Partir en fumée - Comment la combustion de la biomasse détruit les forêts de l'Europe. Ceci est une traduction d’une partie du rapport écris par Fred Pearce pour Fern, qui révèle comment les forêts à travers l'Europe sont pillées...
03/06/2016
Cette note d’information est la première d’une série sur la bioénergie. Elle démontre la disponibilité limitée de la biomasse forestière et propose une stratégie, à l’échelle européenne, qui permettrait d’utiliser plus...
28/10/2015
This position paper from Fern and 10 other NGOs argues that the EU should limit bioenergy use in achieving the 2030 renewable energy target, and should introduce safeguards to avoid negative impacts on the environment, people and...
28/04/2015
There are currently no sustainability standards for biomass production in Bulgaria at either national or EU level. Meanwhile interest is growing in new biomass plants, boilers, and combined heat and power (CHP) plants. This report...
19/10/2012
