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We can’t burn our way out of the climate crisis – but IEA plan 60% increase in bioenergy to 2050 in new roadmap for 1.5C

by Peg Putt, coordinator of the EPN working group on forests, climate and biomass After years of pressure the International Energy Agency (IEA) has finally released a roadmap modelling how the world can achieve carbon neutrality by 2050 and limit global warming to 1.5ºC. It rightly flags no new investment in fossil fuel supply, but […]

Investors to reconsider financing Dutch RWE’s biomass and coal plants because of climate impacts, say environmental groups

Amsterdam/ Berlin, 15 February 2021 — The environmental and climate NGO, the Environmental Paper Network, [1] and Dutch campaigners have asked international financiers of RWE to reconsider their investment in the energy company’s Dutch coal and biomass-burning power plants, in light of the serious impacts on the climate, people and on forests. The letter was […]

Statement of German NGOs on forest bioenergy

Unlike its European neighbours such as the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark, Germany had so far comparatively low capacities for industrial energy production from forest biomass. Up to now, wood has played a relevant role as an energy supplier mainly for stove firing in private households in Germany. However, because of the coal phase-out […]

Forests under pressure: why bioeconomy threatens our ecosystem

The era of fossil fuels is coming to an end, leaving humanity having to increasingly draw on renewable resources. In a bio-based future, forests are expected to supply a significant share of raw materials despite being already exhausted by global demand for timber, for fuel and for paper. If wood is now, in addition, going to be […]