Canadian citizen joins suit against Korean government alleging irreparable harm to forests and climate from use of British Columbia wood pellets
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Paying people to burn wood for energy and simply counting the emissions as zero, as the EU now does, is hollowing out forests and actually increasing GHG emissions. Stopping this practice is essential climate mitigation – which is what we desperately need.
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Mobilizing comments to the EU on the 2030 Climate Target Initiative
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Finance standards reject EU’s biomass “sustainability criteria” as not protecting forests and the climate
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We have a few ideas.
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Join us to see the film that’s got everyone talking about the biomass and wood pellet industries, and hear about the lawsuit filed against the European Union for treating burning trees as “zero-emissions.”
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Combustion physics lend support to a minor rebellion against lawmakers who legislated biomass as “carbon neutral”
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Why are pro-climate action legislators still advocating burning trees for energy?
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The groups urge residents to turn out to rescheduled June 5th hearing on regulatory rollback of MA biomass rules
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MFA’s letter claims wood is “the peoples’ fuel,” but doctors and scientists seem to agree it’s best if those people don’t include children.
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