Biomass Energy, Forests and Climate Library

Niemand houdt zich aan de wet

Meer dan de helft van Bosnië en Herzegovina bestaat uit bos. Met de stijgende houtprijzen neemt ook de boskap toe, geholpen door corruptie en ontbrekende wetgeving. Tegelijkertijd groeit het verzet onder boeren, ambtenaren, activisten en wetenschappers. “Samen staan we sterk!"

Valuing the functionality of tropical ecosystems beyond carbon

Land-based carbon sequestration projects, such as tree planting, are a prominent strategy to offset carbon emissions. However, we risk reducing natural ecosystems to one metric – carbon. Emphasis on restoring ecosystems to balance ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation, and carbon sequestration is a more appropriate strategy to protect their functioning.

The Hot Button Report

Canopy’s Hot Button Report is  the primary fibre sourcing analysis tool for the fashion sector that focuses on forests. The Hot Button identifies risk of MMCF producers sourcing from high-carbon forests and leadership in Next Gen production — and points to other important data needed for informed purchasing, including ZDHC’s work on chemical processing.    

European Climate Risk Assessment report – UNEDITED

The unedited version of the European Climate Risk Assessment by the EU Joint Research Centre

Writing about energy: A companion for journalists and readers

Every day, we hear and read about the energy transition. Unfortunately, we’re stuck with problematic terms. What is really meant by ‘green’ or ‘sustainable’ energy? Also, misleading arguments are used in the debate on climate policy, and certain biases show up in news articles.

That’s why Rauli Partanen, RePlanet’s Energy Analyst and award-winning author, has written a handbook to make sense of energy. Writing about energy: A companion for journalists and readers helps both aspiring and veteran journalists to avoid common mistakes, and write with more clarity on energy and climate. It also helps policymakers, climate activists and anyone else read about these topics with a better understanding of context and scale.

Information note Removal activities under the Article 6.4 mechanism

One to rule them all? Assessing the performance of Forest Europe’s biodiversity indicators against multitaxonomic data

Most broad-scale forest biodiversity indicators are based on data from national forest inventories and are used to assess the state of biodiversity through several regional initiatives and reporting. Although valuable, these indicators are essentially indirect and evaluate habitat quantity and quality rather than biodiversity per se. Besides, most of these indicators are applicable at regional or national scales, while their use at a more local level is difficult. Therefore, their link to biodiversity may be weak, which decreases their usefulness for decision-making.

This research shows that, while some indicators perform relatively well across groups (e.g. deadwood volume), no single indicator represented all biodiversity at once, and that a combination of several indicators performed better.

Apel o odejście od inwestowania w projekty zwiększające zapotrzebowanie

Spalanie biomasy drzewnej wpływa negatywnie na klimat, środowisko i zdrowie publiczne. Dopłaty udzielane
spółkom energetycznym prowadzą do niesprawiedliwych zaburzeń na rynku drewna ze szkodą dla polskiego przemysłu drzewnego.

Briefing about planned investments in big bioenergy facilities in Poland. (in Polish)

Policy consistency for climate – The EU case

While the EU has made progress in recent years on cutting emissions, the accelerating climate emergency requires
much more rapid action in all sectors, and for all EU policies to be pulling in the same direction.

Based on the outputs of a series of stakeholder workshops, organised with the support of Transport & Environment and E3G and drawing on analysis by the Ecologic Institute, WWF identified which EU policies are doing the most damage to the EU’s climate goals. Bioenergy policies are identified as the worst offender.