No smoke without fire: How the Danish energy transition harms the forests of Estonia and Latvia

Author: y Tobias Jespersen and Viesturs Kerus

Date: 2025

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Language: English

Type of resource: Report

Topics: Forests and Biodiversity, Sustainable energy

According to the Danish Energy Agency, the share of renewable energy use in Denmark has been growing rapidly over the last decades. But much of this so-called renewable energy does not come from wind and solar farms but from ancient technology; burning wood. Denmark, through direct and indirect subsidies, switched from burning fossil fuels to burning woody biomass and hence Denmark has turned into a large importer of woody biomass from other countries and in particular from Estonia and Latvia.