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
On 4 September 2024, the European Commission published the results of its Strategic Dialogue on the Future of Agriculture, an innovative exercise that, in a period of bitter strife, gathered farm lobby groups and NGOs around a...
18/09/2024
Fern commissioned EU bioenergy and forest policy expert Duncan Brack to analyse Drax and Exergi’s proposed methodology, and he identified severe shortcomings. This analysis of Drax and Exergi’s proposal highlights the problems with relying on the very companies that would benefit from the building and operating industrial removals projects to create EU methodologies.
26/03/2024
