How UNFCCC carbon accounting has created a biomass delusion is contributing to climate change and global inequity

Big biomass burns wood in huge volumes for electricity and industrial heat. Large scale use of forest biomass adversely affects climate, biodiversity, communities, and the transition to low carbon renewables. Burning wood for energy is emissive. In fact burning wood for energy produces at least as much CO2 as burning coal per unit of energy produced, and usually more. Yet many countries treat biomass energy as zero carbon or as carbon neutral and therefore
give it financial and regulatory support as a ‘renewable’ energy.