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The article explains the importance of increasing the amount of deadwood, including logging residues left in forests and highlights how their increased removal for biomass energy contributes to forest degradation.
North Carolina has 19 million acres of forest, which store nearly 1.3 trillion tons of carbon. While this sounds impressive, logging destroys forest carbon in North Carolina each year. Logging is third in the state’s carbon emissions, behind electricity and transportation. Logging degrades our carbon stores, forest quality, and resilience to future natural disasters. Yet, the true costs of logging hide in forest “net growth” – that a forest is growing more than it’s cut. Dogwood Alliance have put together a two-part report which explores these issues in more depth (Part 1: Forest Carbon Accounting; Part 2: Climate Impacts and Smart Solutions) This is Part 2 of the report.
A set of 3 images highlighting the cost to forests of burning pellets made from trees.
Research paper that considers whether current State aid rules for solid biomass are still fit for purpose, which reveals an important discrepancy between the specific way in which biomass support is treated by the current rules and the rationale and objectives of the current State aid regime for renewable energy.
A scientific and legal analysis of why “sustainability” protections in the EU’s recast Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) provide cover for continued logging, GHG emissions, and forest damage from biomass harvesting.
Review of evidence on the impact of demand for bioenergy on forests, concluding that the available evidence doesn’t support assumptions that bioenergy demand will improve forest management and encourage new planting and that oolicymakers should not assume that forest bioenergy will significantly mitigate climate change.
Europe-wide analysis of (1) the cost of energy (LCOE); (2) network costs; (3) external costs of energy; (4) energy taxes; (5) energy subsidies; and, (6) energy investments, concluding that biomass energy and fossil fuels have the highest energy costs.
A film exploring the negative impacts of biomass energy generation in Portugal.
An analysis of the possible impacts of burning Namibian bushwood in Hamburg, highlighting that it would involve increases in greenhouse gas emissions. Full report in German.
An analysis of the possible impacts of burning Namibian bushwood in Hamburg, highlighting that it would involve increases in greenhouse gas emissions.
Literature review of the impacts of burning woody biomass in Germany, which concludes that it is damaging to the climate.
Investigation into an EIB loan to a biomass plant in Galicia that highlights due diligence failures, resulting in the financing of a biomass plant that is below minimum efficiency standards and is environmentally damaging.
Briefing about the definitions and impacts of forestry and wood-industry residues, showing that the definitions are dangerously broad and hence that limiting subsidies to burning wood from 'residues', let alone so-called ‘low-value’ wood, cannot protect climate, forests, and biodiversity.
Briefing for UK parliamentarians on why biomass should not be treated as a renewable energy source
Biomass is jeopardizing Korea’s renewable energy sector and negating global efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The rapid growth of biomass energy in Korea has shown a threatening trajectory, yet the root causes of this predicament remains unattended. This report aims to enhance the understanding of biomass power policy, and to analyze major socioeconomic, political and environmental drivers of problems associated with biomass power in South Korea. In this report, Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC) has included key policy recommendations to address the problems associated with biomass.
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