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Put a forest in your tank: Why e-fuels aren’t necessarily a climate solution

E-fuels are being promoted as a climate solution for aviation, shipping, and road transport. There are a variety of e-fuels, but beware! Some of them use woody biomass in their production and are another manifestation of the failed industrial biomass energy model – dressed up as innovation. A new brief from BAN exposes the flaws […]

Protect Forests: NGOs Demand UNFAO Action on Over-Extraction on International Day of Forests

Join Our Call: UNFAO stop promoting wood extraction at scale on International Day of Forests March 21st is the UN’s annual International Day of Forests. NGOs and civil society groups are asking why the expansion of wood extraction at scale is being promoted in its official messaging? The International Day of Forests is organised by […]

Under Fire: Defending Ancestral Territory Amid Violence and Agribusiness Expansion

Amid escalating land conflicts in southern Bahia, the Pataxó indigenous people are raising urgent alarm over what they describe as intensifying violence, criminalization, and corporate-driven pressures threatening their ancestral territories and fundamental rights. On February 24, 2026, the Council of Pataxó Chiefs from the Barra Velha and Comexatibá territories in Bahia, Brazil, issued a […]

From Argentina to Chile: Southern Forests in Flames

More than 50,000 people have been evacuated in Chile’s Ñuble and Biobío regions, where wildfires have destroyed at least 250 homes and claimed a minimum of 18 lives. Authorities warn that the death toll is likely to rise as fires continue to spread. This disaster is neither sudden nor unexpected. Just two years ago, in […]

The EU Bioeconomy Strategy – growth at the expense of the biosphere

On Thursday, 27 November 2025, the European Commission published the EU Strategic Framework for a Competitive and Sustainable EU Bioeconomy. As its name suggests, this strategy aimed to combine the objectives of increasing competitiveness of the European Union’s economy with the sustainable use of natural resources. So much for theory. In practice, the EU’s new […]

Biomass Action Network Fears COP compromise: The Transition away from Fossil Fuels must be to Clean Energy Sources which Keep Forests Standing

Download press release here BELÉM, BRAZIL – [20th November 2025] – Red flags are flying for forests as negotiations head into the final days at COP 30, with latest texts revealing unacceptable weakening of earlier versions, apparently in the interests of securing a cover decision no matter the cost to the biosphere and climate, […]

Biomass and The Investment Trap

Opinion piece by Davi Martins who is on the ground at COP30 with BAN’s Biomass Taskforce I hear voices coming through the thin corridor walls. Lingering in the dense atmosphere that has set inside the Blue Zone lies a never ending, unforgiving whisper. You might not notice immediately, but it’s there and it will defy […]

Decarbonisation or dispossession? The extent of industrial-scale biomass energy in Latin America and its impacts on the region

[Português abaixo] We are pleased to share a new briefing from the Biomass Action Network’s Latin America Working Group, created in collaboration with the Global Forest Coalition, that exposes the devastating impacts of industrial-scale biomass energy in Latin America. While governments and corporations promote biomass as “green” energy, this expansion is driving deforestation, water scarcity, […]

Despite its name, the “Amazon COP” is failing to protect forests from the threat posed by large-scale bioenergy.

Taking place at the gateway to the Brazilian Amazon, The UNFCCC COP 30 in Belém has been heavily sold as the “Amazon” and “Forests” COP by the Brazilian government. What could be a unique opportunity to protect a tropical forest that is drastically reaching its tipping point, has instead seen the exact opposite in the […]