What is bioenergy? A global problem

Bioenergy may sound green, but it often means burning forests for energy. This is neither sustainable nor climate-friendly. Burning wood releases carbon dioxide, just like burning coal, but felling forests to feed the furnaces also means fewer trees to suck carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. At a time when forest protection and restoration should be at the top of every country’s to-do list, bioenergy power plants are opening up all over the world.