- EU biomass rules could 'increase emissions'🔍
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- Making our energy system fit for our climate targets🔍
- Accounting for biomass carbon emissions🔍
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- Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU🔍
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EU biomass rules could 'increase emissions'
EU biomass rules could 'increase emissions', say advisors to ...
The RED thus contained no restrictions on the types of forest biomass that could be burnt for energy and no effective GHG accounting framework ...
EU biomass rules could 'increase emissions', say advisors to ...
The EU's biomass plans could lead to increased greenhouse gas emissions, warns a new report from the same UK government agency which helped the ...
Biomass - Energy - European Commission
Increasing the use of biomass in the EU can help diversify Europe's energy supply, create growth and jobs and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Biomass for ...
EU bioenergy policy: debunking the myths on forest biomass | WWF
The European Commission's own scientists have made clear that even burning 'fine woody debris' (for example small branches) can increase ...
Making our energy system fit for our climate targets
In particular, the scope of application of the sustainability and greenhouse gas emissions savings criteria for solid biomass fuels is extended ...
Japan, EU & UK biomass emissions standards fall short and are full ...
As laid out in its Renewable Energy Directive (RED II), biomass plants must reduce emissions by “at least” 70% at plants starting operation from ...
Accounting for biomass carbon emissions - Chatham House
In order to avoid double-counting emissions from biomass energy within the energy sector (when the biomass is burned) and the land-use sector (when the biomass ...
Fueling a Further Environmental Crisis? A Critical Look into Biomass ...
Fueling a Further Environmental Crisis? A Critical Look into Biomass in EU Law · It should firstly be made clear that · It is therefore quite vital to note that “ ...
ECF biomass carbon impacts |. Matthews et al. |. May 2018 biomass use would assume no net impacts on GHG emissions (neither increases, nor reductions). The ...
EU votes to keep woody biomass as renewable energy, ignores ...
With that continued designation, carbon emissions from biomass go legally uncounted by EU countries at the smokestack — as if they don't exist.
1. Is Biomass Carbon-neutral? - Chatham House
The slower the decay rate the larger will be the net increase in carbon emissions from the use of residues for energy in the short and medium term, as the ...
Greenhouse gas emissions from burning US-sourced woody ...
Many national and intergovernmental policy frameworks, including those of the EU and UK, currently treat biomass energy as zero-carbon at the ...
EU unveils plan to increase renewables share in energy mix to 40 ...
New renewables target should help meet emissions cut goals · Sustainability rules tightened for biomass plants · EU countries to cut energy ...
Biomass for energy in the EU – The support framework - ScienceDirect
The Directive states “those savings should increase to 50% in 2017 for existing plants and 60% in 2018 for new installations. Advanced, second-generation bio- ...
Europe's renewable energy directive poised to harm global forests
Under accounting rules for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), countries that burn biomass can ignore the resulting energy ...
The scientific case against burning forest biomass for energy
As the EU looks to finalise the re-cast Renewable Energy Directive as part of the Fit for 55 package, this briefing examines the science ...
Most Forest Biomass Worse for Climate than Fossil Fuels - WWF-CEE
Forest biomass currently being burnt for energy in the EU not only increases emissions compared to fossil fuels, but will imperil the EU's ...
EU carbon target threatened by biomass 'insanity' - The Guardian
"If you replace a growing forest by energy crops under the current accounting rules of the EU, you may very well increase greenhouse gas ...
EU Biomass Plaintiffs v. European Union - Climate Change Litigation
The plaintiffs allege that RED II will accelerate widespread forest devastation and significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions by not counting CO2 ...
Does wood biomass energy use reduce CO2 emissions in ...
The finding implies that CO2 emissions in EU member countries can be effectively reduced by increasing the amount wood biomass energy ...