McDonald’s has been ordered to stop using single-use cups for customers eating and drinking in its restaurants in the Netherlands. The important question is not why this is happening now, but why it took an enforcement action to make it happen at all. For years, disposable packaging has been presented as a matter of convenience: […]
Read MoreE-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 […]
Read MoreJoin 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 […]
Read MoreAmid 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 […]
Read MoreMore 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 […]
Read MoreOn 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 […]
Read MoreDownload 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, […]
Read MoreOpinion 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 […]
Read More[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, […]
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