The Dark Side of the Bioeconomy: Climate Catastrophe, Forest Destruction, and Human Rights Abuses Over 115 Organisations from 40 countries hold day of action to reject the “BioFuture Platform” … [Read more...]
SIGN ON – Ditch Plans to Build UK’s Biggest Gas Plant
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 … [Read more...]
#BigbadBioenergy: October 18 is the International Day of Action on Bioenergy
18th October is an International Day of Action against Bioenergy, called by the Dogwood Alliance, Markets for Change, Global Forest Coalition, Biofuelwatch and other allies around the … [Read more...]
Stop GE Trees Delegation Investigate Expansion of Wood-Derived Bioenergy in Chile
Last month, Biofuelwatch joined a delegation in Chile coordinated by the Campaign to STOP Genetically Engineered (GE) Trees to investigate the impacts of industrial tree plantations and share … [Read more...]
Renewable Energy Directive Useless if Large-Scale Bioenergy is Included
Via BiofuelWatch: The revised Renewable Energy Directive presented by the European Commission today [1] will cause added harm to forests and people, environmental justice campaigners [2] … [Read more...]
Report warns of science-fiction solution being promoted at Paris Climate Conference
The following release and report from Biofuelwatch shows that relying on Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) as a quick-fix climate solution "is nothing more than smoke and mirrors.” The … [Read more...]
