Europe burns a controversial 'renewable' energy source

As world leaders pledge more action on climate change, one so-called solution—burning trees for electricity—could undermine progress.

Scientific evidence shows that burning wood pellets is a major source of carbon at the smokestack. The European Union also likely continued its ...

A controversial European Union policy called the Renewable Energy Directive drove this transition by counting biomass — organic material ...

There is a lie at the heart of Europe's climate policy – the fallacy that burning trees for energy is good for the climate. The EU is the ...

A big part of the problem is the Renewable Energy Directive (RED)—a piece of European legislation that classifies some wood products as a ...

By 2014, biomass accounted for 40 percent of the EU's renewable energy, by far the largest source. By 2020, it's projected to make up 60 ...

They are the problem (oil too, just not listed because this is for electricity). Solar PV is the first low-carbon source at 48 gCO2-eq/kWh ...

The biomass rush began in the late 2000s, when the European Parliament passed what became known as the Renewable Energy Directive, a legal ...

Many European nations have relied on biomass as a “renewable energy” source. At best, that terminology is a stretch.

In its Renewable Energy Directive (RED), the EU classified biomass as a renewable energy source — on par with wind and solar power. As a result, ...

Not a lot of people are aware of this, but a) over half of what counts as renewable energy in the European Union is bioenergy, i.e., wood ...

A controversial European Union policy called the Renewable Energy Directive drove this transition by counting biomass — organic material ...

A company that has received billions of pounds in green energy subsidies from UK taxpayers is cutting down environmentally-important forests.

At present, 60% of the EU's renewable energy mix comes from burning wood pellets, up from 40% in 2014. The EU is the world's largest wood pellet ...

The EU's classification of wood fuels is accelerating the climate crisis. Next week, a key vote can change that, says Greta Thunberg and ...

Aided by government subsidies, the switch from coal to wood took place when biomass was cheaper than other renewable sources of energy, but the ...

“Once we phase out coal, incineration becomes the most polluting source of energy,” says ZWE's Janek Vähk. “Each ton of incinerated waste raises ...

Greenhouse gas effects of burning wood · Consequences for forests · Why the RED sustainability criteria are insufficient · Alternative low carbon ...

Biomass burning emits more than 350 million tonnes of CO2 per year in the EU. Bioenergy emits more carbon pollution than fossil fuels per unit ...

Europe burns a controversial 'renewable' energy source: trees from the U.S. @TimmermansEU https://t.co/3VBPAKmP8l.