The meetings of the Subsidiary Bodies to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) that took place in May in Nairobi ended in disarray, as Parties ended up in polarized discussions
about financial resources and other means of implementation for the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) that was adopted in December 2022. As a
result, no agreement was reached on many issues.
Today the European Parliament voted on the final deal of the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR), which was stripped of its most meaningful provisions to tackle the growing amount of paper packaging waste. The paper packaging industry lobbied ruthlessly and managed to eliminate the ban on throw-away paper packaging, including grouped packaging (such as […]
Read MoreDestruction calls into question “zero-deforestation” commitment of the world’s largest viscose producer Jakarta, March 18, 2024 – Today, a coalition of leading environmental organizations have released the report Deforestation Anonymous that sheds light on the alarming resurgence of deforestation in Indonesia, driven by PT Mayawana Persada in Indonesian Borneo. The evidence presented in the report […]
Read MoreThe final EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation was agreed in trilogue despite being stripped of its most pressing provisions. (March 5 2024, Brussels) – Yesterday the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the European Union released the final text of the long-awaited compromise on the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation. Negotiations between the European […]
Read MoreThe EU environment ministers agreed on a general approach for the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation today. In the context of both record levels of packaging waste and unprecedented lobbying from the single use packaging industry, Member States resisted the most aggressive attempts to water down or delete provisions aiming to prevent waste and kick-start […]
Read More– FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Big biomass appears in an invisibility cloak in the COP28 decision COP28 decision text heightens concern over big biomass energy expansion, its high carbon emissions and community impacts. 13 December, 2023 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – Concerns about the dramatic escalation of big biomass energy have […]
Read More“The huge expansion in so-called ‘modern’ biomass, doubling the current levels by 2030 and trebling them by 2050, is dangerous and unacceptable. It would exacerbate the climate crisis whilst also harming communities and biodiversity, and we already have numerous examples of its adverse impacts.” “Planning to ally energy production from biomass burning with carbon […]
Read MorePhoto credits: Tom Brennan – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – At COP28 civil society calls for exclusion of big biomass from global renewable energy target Large-scale biomass energy undermines international climate ambition at the United Nations summit 8 December, 2023 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – As COP28 enters its second week, civil society organizations […]
Read MoreDuring the press conference we will outline why Big Biomass should not be considered acceptable renewable energy, or be included in Global RE Targets. Come find out more about why biomass is carbon-emitting, drives deforestation and forest degradation, entrenches coal use when co-fired as a form of “abatement”, and is injurious to health and […]
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