Future on Fire: How the EU Burns Trees in the Name of Renewable Energy
Author: Luke Chamberlain, Céline Grommerch, Mary S. Booth
Date: 2022
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Language: English
Type of resource: Report
Topics: Climate, Policy
This report demonstrates that many wood-burning power plants and wood pellet manufacturing plants in the EU appear to be using trees logged directly from forests, despite claims to use sawdust and other mill waste for fuel and feedstock. European Commission scientists have warned that burning trees for energy undermines both the EU’s climate and nature restoration goals.
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