Amanda Tas – Page 6 – Protect the forrest

Oakland Institute: Sweden Displaces Ugandan Farmers for Carbon Trading

Aug 30, 2019Amanda TasForest News, Press Releases

Green Resources’ pine plantation in Kachung. Photo: Kristen Lyons/The Oakland Institute. A new briefing paper by The Oakland Institute brings forward evidence that the Norwegian forestry and carbon credit company, Green Resources, evicted villagers around their tree plantation in Kachung, Uganda. The Swedish Energy Agency purchases carbon credits from Green Resources. The establishment of the large-scaleplantation on land previously used by…

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Member States need to increase transparency about bioenergy in climate plans

Jun 18, 2019Amanda TasPress Releases

Brussels, 18 June 2019 The European Commission has called for Member States to be more transparent about bioenergy use in their final National Energy and Climate Plans (NECPs). This underlines their current alarming lack of openness on the issue. In the EU’s press conference today, Commissioner Cañete emphasised the gap in collective progress towards achieving…

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Old-Growth Forests Threatened by the Swedish State

Apr 24, 2019Amanda TasPress Releases

Photos from three de-registered woodland key habitats at Gällsjöberget and Högvedsberget in Sweden. Many red-listed species have been found in these valuable forests. Photos: Elin Götmark and Helena Björnström. Sweden’s last remaining unprotected old-growth forests are under immediate pressure due to the government’s poor management of the state-owned forests. A new report shows that the state-owned…

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Sign petition: Stop wrecking our climate – ditch plans to build the UK’s biggest gas plant

Apr 2, 2019Amanda TasForest News

Drax is the UK’s single largest emitter of carbon dioxide. Its power station causes serious harm to the climate and the environment by burning more coal than any other UK plant and more wood than any other plant in the world. Much of the wood comes from the clearcutting of carbon rich forests in the…

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Lawsuit against EU: Remove forest biomass from the Renewable Energy Directive

Mar 8, 2019Amanda TasPress Releases

Press release from FERN, March 4, 2019: In a landmark lawsuit to be filed today against the European Union, plaintiffs from five European Member States, including Romania, Ireland, Slovakia, France and Estonia are charging that the EU’s 2018 Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) will devastate forests and increase greenhouse gas emissions by promoting burning forest…

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