Over 120 Groups From Around the World Declare Large Scale Forest Biomass Energy a Dangerous ‘Delusion’ (24 October 2018) - A loud chorus of civil society organisations representing hundreds of thousands of people around the world has come together to release a new...
Climate change is bringing drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty to hundreds of millions of people, and air pollution in the UK is causing tens of thousands of premature deaths each year. Our government should be reducing energy demand and shifting to clean...
Industrialization of Bioeconomy Poses Risks to Climate, Environment and People Civil society groups reject the impact of an exponential growth of the Bioeconomy In recent years, governments have given support to substitute fossil fuels with biomass for energy, in the...
Women Face Abuse, Poverty Due To Oil Palm Industry Declaration: No to abuse against women in industrial oil palm plantations “Yesterday is gone, live today wisely and since tomorrow cannot be assured, the struggle starts now…” Hajaratu Abdulahi from Nigeria We...
Claims of Successful Genetically Engineered Tree Sterility Overblown FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 08/08/2018 Claims of Successful Genetically Engineered Tree Sterility Overblown Long-term risks and threats of GE trees remain unanswered Joint Statement from: Global Justice...
Documents released to Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO) by the Dutch Ministry of Health reveal an industry-aligned collaboration between biotech corporations, researchers and regulators, that seeks to weaken UN biosafety discussions on risk assessment of GMOs and new...
The Energy Charter Treaty and the Power of Corporations to Halt the Energy Transition Nina Holland, steering committee member with the Campaign to STOP GE Trees, is a researcher and campaigners for Corporate Europe Observatory. Published by Corporate Europe...
Renewable Energy Subsidy Rule Changes Rule Out Inefficient Biomass Combined Heat and Power Projects Biofuelwatch is part of the Campaign to Stop GE Trees Planning Committee New rule changes, published yesterday, to conditions for Contracts for Difference for...
Drax’s biomass carbon capture announcement exposes fallacy of supposed climate fix, campaigners say The environmental campaign group Biofuelwatch [1] slams Drax Power Station’s announcement of a pilot carbon capture project at one of its biomass units in Yorkshire [2]...
Half of Wood Pellet Plants in U.S. Violate Pollution Limits or Fail to Install Required Emissions Control Equipment Washington, D.C. – A booming new industry that cuts down forests in the Southern United States to generate electricity in Europe, under the false...