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What is a ‘Trilogue’ and why it can make or break our forests
What is a ‘Trilogue’ and why it can make or break our forests By Kenneth Richter, Bioenergy consultant at BirdLife Europe & Central Asia. We have been keeping you updated with the developments on European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive and the danger dirty bioenergy poses. The negotiations are now slowly moving
European Parliament bioenergy stance strikes a devastating blow for wildlife and climate, threatening to undermine progressive steps elsewhere on clean energy
European Parliament bioenergy stance strikes a devastating blow for wildlife and climate, threatening to undermine progressive steps elsewhere on clean energy By Matt Williams, Policy Officer at RSPB. Thursday, 18 January 2018’s vote by MEPs on the future of renewable energy in Europe was overall a blow to forests, wildlife and the climate as they bowed
Clean energy vote: MEPs sell out climate, nature & people to please intensive farming & forestry lobby
Clean energy vote: MEPs sell out climate, nature & people to please intensive farming & forestry lobby By Alice Collier and Matt Williams, Policy Officers at RSPB. Today’s European Parliament vote, like yesterday’s marine vote, delivers yet another dramatic death blow to our living planet. Razing whole forests to the ground to
Clean Energy Package in the EU Parliament – Wrapping up for Christmas
Clean Energy Package in the EU Parliament – Wrapping up for Christmas By Alice Collier, Policy Officer (Climate Change & Energy) at RSPB. As we all begin winding down for Christmas break, here at BirdLife Europe we have been taking stock of the developing position of the European Parliament on how Europe
Heading for a repeat of past mistakes on biofuels?
Heading for a repeat of past mistakes on biofuels? By Jori Sihvonen, Clean Fuels Officer at Transport & Environment. People who have heard of the renewable energy directive (RED) often associate it with the overall renewables obligation for all sectors – the 20% target until 2020. On Tuesday 28th of
Europe’s climate strategy of burning wood for energy isn’t working
Europe’s climate strategy of burning wood for energy isn’t working By Linde Zuidema, Bioenergy campaigner at FERN. Opposition to the use of forest biomass for energy generation is going mainstream, writes Linde Zuidema, as evidence builds that wood is being burnt in large scale inefficient coal-fired power stations. Every day resistance is growing to the
Project for a large-scale biomass plant in Belgium cancelled
Project for a large-scale biomass plant in Belgium cancelled By Arnaud Collignon, Energy officer at Fédération Inter-Environnement Wallonie. The project, aimed at converting an old Belgian coal power plant into a large-scale biomass power plant, definitely now seems to be a thing of the past. Wallonia, Belgium’s French-speaking region, just decided to
Forests and habitats in exchange for energy?
Forests and habitats in exchange for energy? By Zeynep Karasin, Media relations officer at BirdLife Europe & Central Asia. BirdLife Europe and Central Asia’s statement on the Renewable Energy Directive vote in the European Parliament’s environmental committee on the evening of the 23 October 2017: Today’s vote in the Parliament confirms the
Something Nasty in the Woodshed
Something Nasty in the Woodshed By Phil MacDonald, Head of Comms at Sandbag. With a just a sprinkling of biomass, companies across Europe have been greenwashing their coal burning. By adding sometimes small amounts of biomass to furnaces full of coal, lignite or peat, and harvesting the ‘renewables’ subsidies this earns them,
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