Latest News
Citi downgrades Drax on less attractive risk/reward
Myth-busting Drax’s false claims about biomass
Cross party group of UK parliamentarians call on Prime Minister to end biomass subsidies
UK biomass policy statement hints at shift, but isn’t enough
Drax dropped from S&P index of clean energy firms amid biomass doubts
New petition asks the UK public to say NO to burning trees for energy
22 Environmental NGOs tell the UK Government that dirty biomass subsidies threaten climate action
Bill McKibben in The New Yorker: To counter climate change, we need to stop burning things
Europe’s green energy is stripping US communities of green forests
National Geographic: Europe burns a controversial ‘renewable’ energy source: trees from the U.S.
NAACP: Resolution in Opposition to Wood Pellets Manufacturing and Use of Wood-Bioenergy
NPR: Burning wood pellets isn’t the ‘clean energy’ it claims to be, critics say
Intensive logging impacts in Estonian and Latvian forests
CNN: How marginalized communities in the South are paying the price for ‘green energy’ in Europe
Fact Check: What the government isn’t telling you about biomass subsidies
Sky News: How climate-friendly is biomass?
New data reveals that the UK is now the top subsidiser of bioenergy in Europe
“Carbon-neutrality is a fairy tale”: How the race for renewables is burning Europe’s forests
New York Times: There’s a booming business in America’s forests. Some aren’t happy about it.
The ‘green energy’ that might be ruining the planet
Green groups dispute power station claim that biomass is carbon-neutral
Planting trees cannot offset burning wood, warn experts
Biomass Basics: What are the problems with big biomass?
Leading scientists warn wood pellets threat to climate: “No silver pellet”
Press Releases
New report: UK commits to protect forests at COP27, while spending £2 billion a year destroying them
LONDON – 10 November 2022 – Just days after the UK committed to increased forest protections at COP27, a new report reveals that it wasted almost £2 billion on subsidising the logging of forests for bioenergy in 2021.
UK to “burn 15 billion loaves of bread” a year for bioenergy
LONDON – 22 September 2022 – A new report by Cut Carbon Not Forests (CCNF) shows that the UK Government’s plans for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) — on which it is currently consulting — could undermine the country’s food security.
Report: Bioenergy from Estonia may violate UK’s biomass sustainability laws
LONDON, UK – 4 August 2022 – A new analysis published by Cut Carbon Not Forests exposes how the UK’s demand for wood pellets to generate biomass energy is harming Estonia’s forests and ecosystems, including protected nature reserves. The evidence suggests that wood pellets imported into the UK from Estonia to burn at power plants — primarily Drax — are sourced using such harmful practices that they may violate the UK’s legally binding sustainability criteria for biomass subsidies.
Media Alerts
Investigation exposes destruction of US forests to feed UK biomass plants (26 September 2022)
EAC reacts to evidence on negative emissions technologies (29 March 2022)
The future of BECCS is looking uncertain (7 January 2022)
About Us
Cut Carbon Not Forests is a campaign to remove subsidies from companies that burn trees for electricity, co-ordinated by a coalition of UK and US-based NGOs. Join us in asking the Government to redirect biomass subsidies to real clean and renewable energy.
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