Biomass Energy, Forests and Climate Library

Das Schwinden der Wälder

Robin Wood jubelte, als im Koalitionsvertrag der Ampelregierung 2022 bekanntgegeben wurde, dass das
Bundeswaldgesetz von 1975 endlich novelliert werden soll! Doch heute ist klar: Wird die Novelle so umgesetzt
wie sie jetzt formuliert ist, wird das Gesetz kaum dazu beitragen, die dramatischen Lage des Waldes zu verbessern.

Bankrolling ecosystem destruction – The EU must stop the cash flow to businesses destroying nature

In this report, a coalition of NGOs shows that 135 key actors in ecosystem risk sectors have received more than one-fifth of their total global credit since the 2015 Paris Agreement, and just under one-tenth of their current global investment, from EU-based financial institutions.

The report lays out the importance of EU regulation of the financial sector to align finance with the global 1.5°C and biodiversity targets, including ending any new provision of financial services to groups that contribute to nature destruction.

Investing in Europe’s prosperity – A vision for financing the transition to sustainability 2024–2030

The transition to sustainability will enable social, economic and financial prosperity and stability in the European Union (EU). The EU’s climate targets set out in the European Green Deal demonstrate its commitment to achieving a fair and prosperous future for all citizens. Achieving those goals requires mobilising significant private finance towards the sustainability objectives. Public finance also needs to work harder and smarter to shift the system and bring in more private finance. Policy choices will have to be made against a backdrop of challenging geopolitical, economic and social dynamics.

Climate impacts in northern forests

AirClim’s Northern Forests and Climate Change project aims to increase the visibility of Northern forests in the international climate debate. Their report Climate impacts in northern forests takes a look at the important role the boreal and temperate forests that stretch across the north of Asia, North America and Europe play in our climate system and for climate mitigation.

National Energy and Climate Plans and Carbon Sink Analysis for EU Member States

A new report by PFPI assesses how well the EU Member States have met reporting requirements on bioenergy and the land sink in their National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs), and includes the latest data on biomass use, the forest and land carbon sink, and modeling projections. The report found that most Member States have failed to provide basic information in their draft NECPs on bioenergy and its impact on the forest and land carbon sink, earning them failing grades.

Cofiring is not abatement: Explaining the “abatement” issue

This new briefing draws attention to the unacceptable acceleration of burning wood together with coal as a so-called form of abatement of fossil fuel emissions. The majority of this wood comes directly from forests. Parties from the UNFCCC must not include this controversial new interpretation of ‘abatement’ in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC 3.0), countries plans that state how each country commits to decrease their emissions.

The viability of co-firing biomass waste to mitigate coal plant emissions in Indonesia

Article looks at how much deforestation would likely result from different levels of co-firing wood with coal.

How ‘green’ electricity from wood harms the planet – and people

Many nations have embraced burning wood pellets to produce electricity — under the assumption that it is carbon neutral. But research shows this approach can boost greenhouse-gas emissions and threaten the health of local communities.

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