Une caractéristique de la méthodologie de comptabilisation et de déclaration des émissions de carbone adoptée par la CCNUCC et le GIEC conduit à une attribution injuste des sources d’émissions, illustrant ainsi une tendance involontaire, mais préoccupante, de colonialisme climatique. Cela est particulièrement vrai pour la production d’énergie à partir de la biomasse à grande échelle. […]
Read MoreIt’s Time to Go Beyond Burning Forest Biomass for Energy! #BigBadBiomass On 19th October 2023 groups from six continents took a stand against large-scale forest biomass burning to produce energy, a false climate solution. The international day of action took place one month before COP 28 in Dubai, during which the Global Renewable Energy Target […]
Read MoreBiofuelwatch and EPN International present: Webinar on the Pulp and Paper industry and its #BigBadBiomass investments in Europe 19th October, 14:00 – 15:00 CEST (12.00 UTC, 13.00 BST, 15.00 EEST) Pulp and paper companies are increasingly investing in biomass plants which burn sometimes very large quantities of wood additional to the energy needs […]
Read MoreThe Hague/San Francisco, Oct 2, 2023. A coalition of NGOs has launched the Financial Exclusion Tracker: a new website that tracks which companies are being excluded by investors and banks for sustainability reasons. Most excluded corporations are barred due to links to fossil fuels, weapons or tobacco. This public dataset is the first of its […]
Read MoreImage: “No to power stations – Help us to stop contamination in Parral” from the “No a la thermoelectrica Parral” community campaign. Guest Post by Daniel Santander Urrutia, Geophysicist and member of Colectivo Viento Sur, Defensores Medioambiente Parral and EPN’s Biomass Working Group. In 2021, construction of La Gloria biomass incineration power plant began in […]
Read MoreA peculiarity of UNFCCC and IPCC carbon accounting and reporting methodology is leading to unfair attribution of emissions from large-scale bioenergy. What is emerging, is an unintentional but concerning example of climate colonialism. Download the full briefing here. Burning wood for energy produces at least as much CO2 as burning coal per unit of energy produced, […]
Read MoreIn a world leading move, Australia has excluded native forest biomass from eligibility as renewable energy source under the national Renewable Energy Target, and electricity it generates cannot be used to create tradeable Large-scale Generation Certificates. This decision recognises community concern about the impacts on forest biodiversity. Australia has the highest rate of mammal extinctions in […]
Read MoreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 16, 2022 BRUSSELS/SYDNEY – With a world leading move, Australia has excluded native forests from eligibility as a renewable energy source under the national Renewable Energy Target, increasing pressure on Europe to exclude forest biomass from the Renewable Energy Directive. Peg Putt, Coordinator for Forests, Climate and Biomass at the Environmental […]
Read MoreThis week members of EPN’s Biomass Working Group are attending COP27 in Egypt, to alert global leaders to the fact that the proliferation of biomass as a source of energy is having unacceptably high social and environmental costs around the world. In particular, they are shining a spotlight on the impacts of the biomass industry […]
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