FOR RELEASE: Thursday 24 October CBD COP16 this week can eliminate harmful biomass energy subsidies Subsidies for large-scale centralised energy generation from forest biomass must be phased out urgently starting next year as nations agreed in Target 18 (see below) of the 2022 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), according to the Biomass Action Network at CBD […]
Read MoreThis new briefing from the Biomass Action Network (BAN) draws attention to the unacceptable acceleration of burning wood together with coal as a so-called form of abatement of fossil fuel emissions. The majority of this wood comes directly from forests. As Parties from the UNFCCC wrap up in Bonn this week and formulate their Nationally […]
Read MoreIn a world leading move, Australia has excluded native forest biomass from eligibility as renewable energy source under the national Renewable Energy Target, and electricity it generates cannot be used to create tradeable Large-scale Generation Certificates. This decision recognises community concern about the impacts on forest biodiversity. Australia has the highest rate of mammal extinctions in […]
Read MoreBlog post by Peg Putt, Co-coordinator of the Forests, Climate and Biomass Energy Working Group Beyond Burning, the video from Stand.earth and Emma Thompson, is timely in calling out forest biomass burning as a false solution to climate change. A clamour of false solutions pushed by vested interests followed the Climate COP 26, held in […]
Read MoreIn a rare feel good moment in Glasgow, world leaders stepped into the spotlight at the climate negotiations to sign their declaration on ending deforestation and land degradation. Here at least, against the background of a Climate Code Red and disappointment that even this had not hastened the incremental pace of change nor secured commitment […]
Read MoreThe community victory in 2011 which halted Gunns Ltd’s devastating pulp mill from being built in the state of Tasmania, Australia has some years later produced a stunning climate result, which was revealed in the recently released Greenhouse Gas Inventories of Australia’s States and Territories. In some rare good news for the climate, Tasmania’s planet […]
Read More“We, the undersigned organisations believe that we must move beyond burning forest biomass to effectively address climate change. We call on governments, financiers, companies and civil society to avoid expansion of the forest biomass based energy industry and move away from its use. Subsidies for forest biomass energy must be eliminated. Protecting and restoring the […]
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