Tag: reports

Bio­mass ener­gy is not sus­tain­able at an indus­tri­al scale, accord­ing to a new report by Bio­fu­el­watch, an inter­na­tion­al orga­ni­za­tion based in the US and Unit­ed King­dom (UK). Sus­tain­able Bio­mass: A Mod­ern Myth sounds the warn­ing bell on trends that would make the UK the world’s largest con­sumer of bio­mass elec­tric­i­ty, along with the inevitable impacts on the cli­mate,…

A new report by Spain-based Car­bon Trade Watch cri­tiques plans by the Unit­ed King­dom gov­ern­ment and Euro­pean Union Emis­sions Trad­ing Sys­tem (EU ETS) to ramp up indus­tri­al-scale bio­mass ener­gy pro­duc­tion under the guise of “car­bon neu­tral­i­ty,” despite its mas­sive green­house gas emis­sions and threats to pub­lic health and glob­al bio­di­ver­si­ty. An esti­mat­ed 80 to 300 mil­lion tons of wood…