November 17, 2024
New Report Exposes Massive Expansion and Serious Detrimental Impacts of Global Biomass Industry Misleadingly Defined as “Renewable” Download the Threat Map 2 page explanatory graphic A new report “Burning up the Biosphere: A Global Threat Map of Biomass Energy Development” released by the Biomass Action Network of EPN International reveals that, according to the IEA’s […]
Read MoreNovember 15, 2024
To see how a global climate summit is going, it is not necessary to take note of the number of polluting companies showing up there, but this may help. All kinds of companies travelled to Baku, one of the largest global oil hubs. They register for meetings and panels, present their beautiful glossy image, and […]
Read MoreNovember 7, 2024
FOR RELEASE: Thursday 7 November Biomass Action Network calls for Real Solutions COP in Baku Countries must find real solutions for climate action and climate finance and reject false solutions such as industrial bioenergy, says the Biomass Action Network (BAN) as the 29th Conference of the Parties to the UN Climate Convention is set to […]
Read MoreNovember 2, 2024
In 2024 our planet has endured epic flooding in southern Poland, the southeastern US, and southeastern Spain, in addition to wildfires in Portugal and California. EPN-North America is headquartered in Western North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene recently left a devastating mark in the region. Our EPN-North America staff witnessed both heartbreaking losses and the resilience […]
Read MoreOctober 24, 2024
FOR RELEASE: Thursday 24 October CBD COP16 this week can eliminate harmful biomass energy subsidies Subsidies for large-scale centralised energy generation from forest biomass must be phased out urgently starting next year as nations agreed in Target 18 (see below) of the 2022 Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF), according to the Biomass Action Network at CBD […]
Read MoreOctober 21, 2024
Written by Simone Lovera, Biomass Action Network Now that it is Action Time for biodiversity policy makers, who are coming together for the first time since the adoption of the historic Global Biodiversity Framework in 2022 at the 16th Conference of the Parties of the Biodiversity Convention, the big question on the table is: “Do […]
Read MoreOctober 21, 2024
As the Biodiversity COP in Cali gets underway today, members of the Biomass Action Network’s Latin-America Working Group have an important message to send policy makers. As organized peoples and communities of Latin America and the Caribbean, our Abya Yala, we declare: The biomass industry is another threat to our lives! We do not want […]
Read MoreOctober 21, 2024
Open Letter to the Global Timber Industry In Support of the International Day of Action on Big Biomass October 21 From the Biomass Action Network’s Africa Working Group — Dear Members of the Timber Industry, On behalf of the Biomass Action Network’s Africa Working Group, we write to you on this International Day of Action on […]
Read MoreOctober 20, 2024
NGOs around the world are participating in a global wave of action against large-scale biomass energy, to tell world leaders at COP16 that Bioenergy Destroys Biodiversity. On the 21st of October 2024 environmental and civil society groups from around the world will take a stand against large-scale forest biomass burning to produce energy. The international […]
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