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We work to protect climate, forests, biodiversity and communities from destructive impacts of large-scale bioenergy, Website: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk Email: biofuelwatch[at]gmail[dot]com
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The omnibus reaps yet another victim: forests and their protections against the endless consumption of pulp and paper.

Read more on our full statement: environmentalpaper.org/2025/12/defo...

#EUDR #Books #PulpPaper #Omnibus
December 5, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Drax power station has been granted permission to increase hazardous emission from one of its wood pellet plants in the US, but both at home and abroad people aren’t taking Dirty Drax’s polluting practices lying down
www.catalystmedia.org.uk/environment/...
December 5, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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On 8-9 Dec, the @EU_Commission hosts its Industrial Carbon Management Forum—promoting #CCS & dominated by fossil lobbyists. Despite decades of CCS failures, €billions still flow in, propping up dirty industries. A big win for fossil lobbyists. #ICMForum

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/12/m...
Mapping the money behind carbon capture | Corporate Europe Observatory
New research by Corporate Europe Observatory and Oil Change International shows that Big Polluters have captured €17 billion in public subsidies for failed carbon capture technology – because fossil f...
corporateeurope.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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We join Via Campesina in condemning the arbitrary and violent attacks on their Palestinian member group by Israeli forces viacampesina.org/en/2025/12/a...
ALERT! La Via Campesina strongly condemns attacks against its member organisation in Palestine and denounces the arbitrary arrests
Our member organisation operates in full accordance with international law ; its primary role is to support farmers in Palestine.
viacampesina.org
December 4, 2025 at 6:02 PM
New study on how to reduce the harm to public health done by particulate pollution published in Nature, shows emissions from both traffic and #biomass burning needs to be curbed across Europe (true for UK, too): www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Oxidative potential of atmospheric particles in Europe and exposure scenarios - Nature
Extensive oxidative potential measurements from across Europe analysed with the two most common assays, dithiothreitol and ascorbic acid, using a standardized protocol show the strong influence o...
www.nature.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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☠️ New GMOs: The result of last night comes down to a massive handout of our foodchain to pesticide firms like Bayer and BASF.

This is a vast #deregulation:
🚨scrapping safety standards,
🚨scrapping consumer freedom to choose
🚨creating more dependence for farmers through patents
December 4, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Hugely depressing - Drax burning record amounts of wood, according to www.theguardian.com/business/202... . All because of generous subsidies paid via every UK resident's electricity bills. Massive harm to forests, esp. in southeastern US and western Canada. #BigBadBiomass #AxeDrax
UK using more wood to make electricity than ever, Drax figures show
Giant biomass plant reveals burning of wood pellets made 9% of UK’s electricity in July, its largest ever monthly share
www.theguardian.com
December 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Happening tomorrow: globaljusticeecology.org/the-wild-ame... - Film screening about how American chestnuts can recover without #GETrees. Go to the link to register on Zoom, 7pm Eastern Time, midnight UK time
December 3, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Sign our petition asking EU policy makers to:
1️⃣ Scrap green hydrogen import targets & meet climate goals through rapid phase out of fossil fuels

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December 3, 2025 at 9:05 AM
We join over 100 businesses, investors & civil society voices with one message: implement the EU Deforestation Regulation now: www.clientearth.org/latest/docum... #EUDR No more delays!
December 3, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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In a new piece in @newsweek.com, our colleagues from @dogwoodalliance.org and @nrdc.org imagine forests valued for life, not fuel & where global energy giants can’t turn ecosystems into extraction zones.

Protecting forests means protecting people. 🌍🌱

www.newsweek.com/foreign-ener...
December 2, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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✍🏽 Sign our petition asking EU politicians to:

1️⃣ Scrap green hydrogen import targets & phase out fossil fuels
2️⃣ End public subsidies for green hydrogen import infrastructure
3️⃣ Support countries in the Global South with their own just transitions

www.corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-petit...
Tell the EU: No to Green Hydrogen Imports | Corporate Europe Observatory
corporateeurope.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:55 AM
📣Urgent action: the UK's single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied for government support to power an AI data centre in Yorkshire by burning trees! 🌳🔥😮

🏭 Please call on your MP to say NO to Drax's AI data centre bid: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge... 🔥🌳🔥 #StopBurningTrees #AxeDrax
Urgent action: Please ask your MP to say no to Drax’s AI data centre bid
The UK’s single largest carbon emitter, Drax, has applied with the University of York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority for public support to use its tree burning to power an AI data centre as pa...
actionnetwork.org
November 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
We have also signed this important letter against EU imports of green #hydrogen:
Corporate Europe Observatory was one of more than 130 organisations that signed an open letter today telling the EU to scrap its neocolonial #greenhydrogen import plans.

You can read the full letter here: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/t...
#No2GreenHydrogenImports
November 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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📣 130+ groups tell EU to scrap its #greenhydrogen import plans that prioritise Europe's flawed energy agenda over the rights, needs, and futures of communities in the Global South.

Read more 🧵 1/5 👇

corporateeurope.org/en/2025/11/m...
November 27, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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🤫 Can’t make it tomorrow?

Watch the Global online screening instead on 3 Dec at 19h00: corporateeurope.org/en/gh2-global-premiere
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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🍿Last chance to catch the premiere of CEO’s documentary “The Scramble for Hydrogen in South Africa” featuring the voices and stories of some of the most affected communities in South Africa that are being ignored by EU politicians.

📅 27Nov
📍 Cinema Vendôme, Brussels
👉 corporateeurope.org/en/event/4
November 26, 2025 at 3:37 PM
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SHOCKING 🚨: The UK just had its worst wildfire year on record.

47,000 hectares burned while firefighters were drafted from across the country to supplement under resourced local crews.

A safe future starts with funding the people on the frontline.
November 26, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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More tarmac, more emissions, more destruction 💀

Heathrow 3rd runway is a climate clime, when what we need is to draw #RedLinesForAirports and drastically cut air traffic!

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Heathrow airport’s £33bn third runway plan chosen by government
Scheme includes plan to move the M25 and could mean up to 760 more planes in the skies around London every day
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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A very moving ceremony at the Eemshaven power station, mourning the forests destroyed and wildlife harmed to power RWE's Dutch power stations with wood pellet #biomass #BigBadBiomass
#OperatieStorm in Groningen: een grote rouwceremonie bij energiecentrale RWE. We staan stil bij de natuur die vernietigd is door RWE. Zij verdienen geld met het plunderen van de aarde maar geven ons er vervuilde lucht en de klimaatcrisis voor terug.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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NEW: Protesters gathered outside Holyrood demanding the Scottish Government finally oppose Rosebank.

More than 250 organisations from Amnesty to the Church of Scotland have warned that the project would deepen climate breakdown and benefit corporations, not communities.
November 24, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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🤫 But behind the hype lies an inconvenient truth.

🛑 Large-scale production of green hydrogen requires huge amounts of land, water and renewable energy from production countries, largely in the global south.
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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💣“They say ‘Just Transition, leaves no one behind’. But when you look at the reality, everyone is left behind.” - Zethu Hlatshwayo, South African climate justice activist featured in CEO’s documentary.

Join us for the premiere in Brussels on 27th Nov at 7pm

🎬 Watch our new trailer 👇
November 24, 2025 at 11:16 AM
A very moving ceremony at the Eemshaven power station, mourning the forests destroyed and wildlife harmed to power RWE's Dutch power stations with wood pellet #biomass #BigBadBiomass
#OperatieStorm in Groningen: een grote rouwceremonie bij energiecentrale RWE. We staan stil bij de natuur die vernietigd is door RWE. Zij verdienen geld met het plunderen van de aarde maar geven ons er vervuilde lucht en de klimaatcrisis voor terug.
November 24, 2025 at 9:41 AM