The EU’s Emissions Trading System continues to menace forests by promoting wasteful bioenergy
Bioenergy emits as much CO2 as coal and gas, but produces a fraction of the energy. Why isn’t this wasteful fuel being regulated under the ETS?
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The future of forests should unite us
A small conference to discuss how the EU’s forests can be better managed was supported by a diversity of Parliamentary representatives
Demonstrators rally in Tallinn to defend Estonia’s forests
“The forest is meant to be preserved, not exploited.”
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ArticleOld-growth inland rainforest being harvested for wood pellets
ResearchGovernment subsidies for electricity generation and combined heat and power (CHP) from solid biomass
ExplainerExplainer on loss of the forest carbon sink in Finland and Estonia
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Logging for pellets and forest destruction
ResearchAbrupt increase in harvested forest area over Europe after 2015
ArticleRevisiting Wood-Use Conversions and Projections For Bioenergy Projects
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