Photo: Manfred Irmer from Pixels. By 2030, 30 percent of the aviation fuel used in Sweden will consist of biofuels. This is proposed by the investigator Maria Wetterstrand appointed by the Swedish Government. The new investigation pays no attention to that biofuels emit carbon dioxide and that increased harvesting threatens biodiversity. By 2021, one percent…
Pressrelease from Biofuelwatch: Paris, 28th February 2019 – An Open Letter by 46 environmental NGOs and networks from 19 countries was delivered to French Environment Minister, François de Rugy today, urging the government to rule out permission to convert Cordemais power station or any other coal plant to biomass and to ensure that France’s four…
The climate is used as a pretext to increase forest harvests. Photo: Pixabay Protect the Forest gives feedback on European Commission’s initiative to step up EU action against deforestation and forest degradation. The NGO calls on the EU to prevent forest companies from logging high conservation value forests and to establish large-scale tree plantations. The growing…
Large clear-cut conducted by Swedish state-owned company Sveaskog. Photo: Björn Mildh The Swedish Parliament has recently voted for a budget which reduces the environmental and climate funds with SEK 2 billion (EUR 200 million). “A disaster which deliberately undermines national and international environmental targets”, states the Swedish environmental NGO Protect the Forest. David van der…
Press release, November 7, 2018 An international coalition of more than 120 organisations from 40 countries today warns that the rapid global growth of the so-called bioeconomy poses a grave risk to the climate, nature, and human rights. In addition to publishing an Open Letter, a petition is being launched today to coincide with the…
