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Webinar – The Pulp and Paper Industry and it’s #BigBadBiomass investments in the EU

Author: Biofuelwatch

Date: 2023

Location: Array

Language: English

Type of resource: Video

Topics: Bioeconomy, Climate, Forests and Biodiversity

Webinar, focussing on the EU-s three largest pulp and paper-producing countries: Sweden, Finland and Portugal.

Pulp and paper companies are increasingly investing in biomass plants which burn sometimes very large quantities of wood additional to the energy needs of the pulp mills themselves. Excess electricity is sold to the grid – a lucrative deal due to biomass subsidies and the exemption of biomass energy from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme.

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Organization: Biofuelwatch