Linde Zuidema

The EU’s pledged billions for a ‘Green Coronavirus Recovery’. But it is in danger of repeating past mistakes

As we chart the recovery from COVID-19, governments around the world face a grave choice: continue along the path of planetary collapse, or embrace a sustainable future. 

The European Commission, for one, has said that it...

24/11/2020

Politics trumps science as EU lays out its renewable energy future

The EU’s new bioenergy policy is driven by vested interests not evidence, writes Linde Zuidema.

“I want the European Union to become the world number one in renewables,” Jean-Claude Juncker declared in January 2014.

This grand...

21/06/2018

Bioenergy and social injustice in North Carolina

Our Bioenergy campaigner, Linde Zuidema, has been visiting the South-East United States to witness how forests are being destroyed to produce wood pellets for the EU energy market. Here she discovers the impact of the industry on...

15/11/2016

European Commission risks repeating mistakes with its flawed proposals on bioenergy sustainability

Today Politico has leaked the European Commission’s draft Winter Package on Climate and Energy which is expected to be released on November 30. The draft includes a major overhaul of the EU’s electricity market, and new rules for...

15/11/2016

PHOTO BLOG: A story of southern destruction

Seeing is believing, and witnessing first-hand the devastating effect that the European Union’s renewable energy policy is having on the forests and wetlands of the Southeast United States, offers overwhelming evidence of the...

15/11/2016

EU must come to its senses on biomass policies

Policy-makers must take heed of mounting opposition to the European Union’s disastrous use of wood to generate bioenergy.

Today scientists, NGOs and industry figures gather with EU policy makers for a conference discussing the...

16/05/2016

The most crucial challenges facing Europe’s forests

This short briefing outlines BirdLife, European Environmental Bureau and FERN recommendations for the Parliament’s own initiative report on the EU Forest Strategy.

28/11/2014