January 17, 2024
This used to be one of the most beautiful places in the world, now it looks like a circle of hell. Tarakan is located on an island three hours by boat from the Malaysian border, facing the estuary of the Sepauk River, an idyllic picture of twisted loops bordered by forests and ponds.In that idyllic […]
Read MoreDecember 22, 2023
On 28 November, Mr. Antônio Sapezeiro, leader of the Quilombola community of Nova Vista in Sapê do Norte, São Mateus, (Espirito Santo, Brazil) was filmed lying, immobilised and defenceless, on the concrete road, surrounded by Suzano security guards and military police officers called by them. This is not uncommon behaviour for Suzano, the biggest pulp […]
Read MoreDecember 19, 2023
The 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 MoreDecember 13, 2023
– 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 MoreDecember 11, 2023
“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 MoreDecember 8, 2023
Photo 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 MoreDecember 7, 2023
During 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 […]
Read MoreDecember 6, 2023
Traditional Portal at Mayawana Persada timber plantation. © LinkAR Borneo In the international media silence, bulldozers are removing one of the last habitats of Orangutan in Borneo, Indonesia. Indigenous people are fighting back. They formed a wide indigenous alliance, the Marwah Red Army, (Pasukan Merah Penjaga Marwah – because of their traditional red clothes) a […]
Read MoreDecember 1, 2023
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] – For immediate release – Contact: Ms Peg Putt +61 418127580, email – peg.putt@gmail.com We need a Global Renewable Energy Target without Big Biomass Energy Expansion Dubai, 1 December 2023. As climate COP28 convenes in Dubai, the Biomass Action Network of EPN* warns that burning forest […]
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