Biomass Energy, Forests and Climate Library

What Economics Does – or Doesn’t – Tell Us About the Climate Consequences of Using Wood,

Report summarising scientific arguments why wood bioenergy is not carbon neutral

Burning forests: the wood pellet industry’s framing of sustainability and its shadow places

Woody biomass energy has exponentially grown in the last decade as a renewable energy alternative to fossil fuels. The growing trend of burning trees amid global climate crisis suggests that the wood pellet industry has been grossly successful in positioning itself as a sustainability leader. What communicative frames and strategies has the industry harnessed to communicate sustainability? What do the frames and strategies leave out? To explore those questions, this paper examines the woody biomass industry’s construction of sustainability by focusing on the case of the world’s largest wood pellet company, Enviva.

Tree canopy extent and height change in Europe, 2001–2021, quantified using Landsat data archive

The global demand for timber has increased since 2000 and it is expected to grow considerably in the next decades (FAO, 2022), in particular, driven by energy production (O’Brien and Bringezu, 2018). We suggest that European forests may experience an increase in the annual tree canopy removal area in the future caused by a concurrent increase in timber harvesting and natural disturbances

The Na’onal Strategic Project (PSN) of Food and Energy Development in Merauke Regency, South Papua Province: Viola’ng Human Rights and Worsening Environmental Crisis

The hijackers of energy transition

Research by Trend Asia found that the establishment of energy plantations as a source of wood pellets for biomass co-firing in coal-fired power plants will lead to extensive deforestation. Biomass co-firing, promoted as a 'new' energy source, is still dominated by traditional players in the wood, palm oil, and coal industries—companies already notorious for their deforestation practices, such as APP Group, KORINDO GROUP, Barito Pacific (PT Barito Pacific Tbk) , Wilmar International, PT Jhonlin Group, and Sampoerna Kayoe.

The Rise and Fall of a Green-Energy Superstar

Enviva cashed in on a boom in wood pellets, then a disastrous trade led to bankruptcy; questions about environmental claims

Land Use in NDCs A Guide to High Ambition

Biochar Webinar

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Accompanies this presentation: https://environmentalpaper.org/biomass-library/biochar-the-quick-and-dirty-way-to-get-cdr-carbon-offsets-while-wasting-wood-and-other-biomass/

Biochar: The quick and dirty way to get CDR carbon offsets while wasting wood and other biomass