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Wood pellets made headlines for weeks in Poland this winter. The reason? A combination of a cold winter and excessive government support in past years for households’ purchase of wood pellet stoves and boilers, encouraged by...
04/03/2026
Despite Member States’ slow transposition, the EU is already developing post-2030 rules
In late July 2025, the European Commission opened infringement procedures against all EU Member States except Denmark for their failure to...
28/01/2026
Yesterday, European Environment Commissioner Roswall presented the revised European Bioeconomy Strategy. Martin Pigeon and Sydney Vennin offer their initial impressions:
Business as usual
There are few meaningful changes to...
28/11/2025
Augustyn Mikos, of civil society organisation Pracownia, in Poland, discusses a new Polish decree that significantly reduces financial support to bioenergy
Despite instigating a certain amount of environmental mayhem during its ...
10/07/2025
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
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
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
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
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...
