Media coverage on biomass, forests, and climate relevant to the Renewable Energy Directive – For media in languages other than your own, use Chrome browser for translation
EU-wide coverage
- EU countries must stop undermining biomass policy reform (opinion) – EURACTIV, March 28, 2023
- EU weighs up future of wood-burning as renewable energy source – Indian Express, March 26, 2023
- RED: As from the catalog of demands of the forest industry (German op-ed) – Europe.Table, March 14, 2023
- Trees don’t grow overnight (German) – Die Presse, March 7, 2023
- Scientists write to the EU: “No to the use of forest biomass to produce energy: it only releases CO2” (Italian) – Corriere della Sera, March 4, 2023
- Wood burning – a threat to climate targets (German TV) – Tagesschau, March 3, 2023
- How wood robbers are destroying the oldest forests in Europe (German) – Der Spiegel, March 1, 2023
- Investigation reveals flaws in ‘responsible’ timber certification system (French) – Le Monde, March 1, 2023
- “Deforestation Inc”: how wood from deforestation still ends up in commerce (French) – Radio France, March 1, 2023
- Research on the trail of the wood mafia (German) – Suddeutsche Zeitung, March 1, 2023
- Wood burning – a threat to climate targets (German video report) – Tagesschau, March 1, 2023
- How wood robbers are destroying the oldest forests in Europe (German) – Der Spiegel, March 1, 2023
- The global business of the timber mafia (German) – Suddeutsche Zeitung, March 1, 2023
- Environmental movement NOAH: The minister must step into character and stop the Swedish forest mafia (Danish) – Altinget, February 24, 2023
- Explainer: The Controversy over Wood Pellets (podcast) – Free Range, February 23, 2023
- Biomass fight leaves EU renewable energy talks in a deadlock (also in French and German) – EURACTIV, February 16, 2023
- Scientists in row over sustainability credentials of continued biomass use – ENDS Europe, February 16, 2023
- Link to open letter discussed in the article: 550 scientists respond to forest industry letter
- Australia says some biomass can’t count as renewable; Europe debates changes – WFAE, February 13, 2023
- Hunger for Biomass: Consequences in North America (German) – Die Presse, February 12, 2023
- Poland and Sweden, Side by Side Against Forests (Polish) – Rzeczpospolita, February 11, 2023
- Leak: Sweden seeks hard line on biomass in RED talks – ENDS Europe, February 8, 2023
- In Guyana, a derogation from European law threatens the forest (French) – Reporterre, February 7, 2023
- 10 EU countries warn against restricting use of bioenergy – Politico, February 3, 2023
- Heated discussions on support for wood fuel – environmental, industrial and geopolitical interests collide (Latvian) – LSM, February 3, 2023
- Wood as renewable energy? IEA admits it’s problematic (Polish) – Energetyka 24, January 28, 2023
- No, wood burning is not climate friendly (Turkish) – Yesil Gazette, January 28, 2023
- 500+ Scientists: ‘Climate-smart retention forestry is a hoax’ (Swedish) – Dagens Nyheter, January 27, 2023
- Europe turns to firewood in the face of uncertainties over gas, electricity supplies – Channel News Asia, January 27, 2023
- When our forests go up in smoke (video report in French) – CBC/Radio Canada, January 27, 2023
- The EU banned Russian wood pellet imports; South Korea took them all – Mongabay, January 24, 2023
- Exposed: How EU countries use firewood to bloat their renewable energy stats (also available in Slovak, French, and German) – EURACTIV, January 23, 2023
- Should the EU count wood as a renewable fuel? Opinions are divided. – Energy Monitor, January 5, 2023
- How Europe’s clean energy policies harm forests (English audio story on use of wood pellets)- DW, January 4, 2023
- Brussels lets nature suffocate (Dutch) – De Telegraaf, January 3, 2023
- NOAH: Europe’s nature is suffering under the EU’s crisis law for the energy sector (op ed in Danish) – Climate Monitor, December 21, 2021
- Europe’s forests plugging energy shortfalls (audio report) – BBC World Service, December 12, 2022
- As EU finalizes renewable energy plan, forest advocates condemn biomass – Mongabay, December 7, 2022
- Wood-energy sector worried by EU attempt to limit biomass use – EURACTIV, December 6, 2022
- Stop burning trees to make energy, say 650 scientists before Cop15 biodiversity summit – the Guardian, December 5, 2022
- EU’s winter energy crisis intensifies pressure on forests (commentary) – Mongabay, December 1, 2022
- EU climate plan sacrifices carbon storage and biodiversity for bioenergy– Nature, November 28, 2022
- The Fatal Business with Wood Pellets (German audio and text story on forest impacts of wood pellet use) – Deutschlandfunk Kultur, November 22, 2022
- NOAH: EU is burning up the worlds carbon sink (Danish) – Arbejderen, November 18, 2022
- Time to stop counting forest biomass as ‘renewable energy’ – EURACTIV, November 16, 2022
- Biomass can ruin Europe (Hungarian) – 168.hu, November 14, 2022
- Europe is rapidly losing its forest carbon sink (Hungarian) – Greenfo, November 14, 2022
- EU with environmental goals in jeopardy due to burning wood for energy – report (Portuguese) Agroportal, November 8, 2022
- European Union with environmental goals in jeopardy due to burning wood to produce energy – report (Portuguese) – Observador, November 8, 2022
- Europe rapidly losing its forest carbon sink, study shows – EURACTIV, November 7, 2022
- Europeans Are Burning Trees to Keep Warm – Wired, November 7, 2022
- Scientists call for ‘climate smart’ forestry in face of global warming – EURACTIV, October 27, 2022
- Europe’s energy crisis: Wood industry booms before winter of discontent – Euronews, October 14, 2022
- EU official: Further efforts needed to address ‘ecological limits’ of biomass (interview with John Bell, ‘Healthy Planet’ Director at the European Commission’s DG Research & Innovation) – EURACTIV, October 12, 2022
- Why wood from B.C. forests is burning to fuel U.K. energy needs (video) – The Fifth Estate, CBC, October 6, 2022
- Environmental organizations criticize co-firing of wood (German) – Euwid, September 29, 2022
- Renewable Energy Directive, lights and shadows of the new EU provision (Italian) – Economia Circolare, September 20, 222
- EU classification of nuclear and gas as “green”: conservationists want to sue (German) – Watson, September 19, 2022
- Environmentalists are taking action against taxonomy (German) – Tagesschau, September 19, 2022
- The Future of San Francisco’s Fog and More: The Week in Narrated Articles – The New York Times (podcast) – New York Times, September 16, 2022
- Europe’s continued reliance on biomass burning undoes EU climate credentials – Environmental Paper Network, September 15, 2022
- EU continues to deforest and burn trees for “renewable” energy (Dutch) – Mondiaal Nieuws, September 15, 2022
- European Union Signals a Move Away from Wood Energy – New York Times, September 15, 2022
- Burn trees but want to save the forest (German) – Zeit Online, September 14, 2022
- Measures approved by the European Parliament are “little ambitious” (Portuguese) – Noticiasa Ao Minuto, September 14, 2022
- The interpretation of sustainable wood burning intensifies emotions in the EU Parliament (Finnish) – Helsingin Sanomat, September 14, 2022
- Imported deforestation, use of wood: progress in the European Parliament for the future of forests (French) – Le Monde, September 14, 2022
- Christian Democrats in the European Parliament defend the burning of trees (Dutch) – Bnnvara, September 14, 2022
- Hazekamp: “The EU is making a big mistake by choosing to burn forests.” (Dutch) – Brusselse Nieuwe, September 14, 2022
- Focus on energy security and energy prices suppresses climate and biodiversity issues (Dutch, opinion piece) – Bnnvara, September 14, 2022
- EU limits subsidies for burning trees under renewable energy directive – The Guardian, September 14, 2022
- European Parliament backs 45% renewable energy goal for 2030 – EURACTIV, September 14, 2022
- Plate or Pellet? (German) – Taz, September 14, 2022
- EU vote exposes tensions over use of forests for fuel – Financial Times, September 14, 2022
- Environmentalists call for end to subsidies that are destroying protected forests in Europe (Portuguese) – Publico, September 13, 2022
- Eastern European primeval forests are being massively chopped into wood pellets: will Europe continue to pay subsidies for this type of biomass? (Dutch) – VRT, September 13, 2022
- Environmentalists call for end to subsidies that are destroying protected forests (Portuguese) – Cision, September 13, 2022
- A good European Parliament puts the ax in biomass (Dutch) – De Telegraaf, September 13, 2022
- Europe’s forest protection at a turning point (German) – ORF, September 13, 2022
- EU Parliament groups rally behind plans to end biomass subsidies (also in French and German) – EURACTIV, September 13, 2022)
- Cutting down trees is not climate protection (German) – Suddeutsche Zeitung, September 12, 2022
- The EU must stop burning trees for renewable energy (opinion) – Politico, September 9, 2022
- Biodiversity burned: Renewables, Biomass and Biofuels (German) – DNR, September 8, 2022
- Dispute over burning of forest wood (German) Tagesspiegel, September 8, 2022
- Biomass Lobby Makes ‘False’ Claims to Sway EU Law-makers – DeSmog, September 7, 2022
- Burning forests for energy isn’t ‘renewable’ – now the EU must admit it – the Guardian, September 7, 2022
- Europe is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy – New York Times, September 7, 2022
- Burning forests for energy isn’t ‘renewable’ – now the EU must admit it | Greta Thunberg and others | The Guardian (English) – The Guardian, September 5, 2022
- CO2 dispute over wood balance: Does the tree or the whole forest count? (German) Energie Experten, September 2, 2022
- Burn trees but want to save the forest (German) – Zeit Online, September 2022
- Conservationists alarmed by parliamentary compromise over woody biomass – ENDS Europe, September 2022
- Power plants that burn wood: Renewable energy or major polluters? – Christian Science Monitor, June 14, 2022
- Europe Rethinks Its Reliance on Burning Wood for Electricity – New York Times, May 17, 2022
- The EU on the Wrong Track (German) – Spektrum, February 2, 2022
- How marginalized communities in the South are paying the price for ‘green energy’ in Europe (video and written report) – CNN, July 9, 2021
- The EU’s biomass dilemma: can burning trees ever be green? Financial Times, July 1, 2021
- Wood, a not-so-green source of energy (French) – Le Monde, June 4, 2021
Global
- Energy market for wood pellets globally threatens U.S. forests – KTTN News, March 20, 2023
- How Auditing Giant KPMG Became a Global Sustainability Leader While Serving Companies Accused of Forest Destruction – Inside Climate News, March 6, 2023
- Western firms certified as socially responsible trade in Myanmar teak linked to the military regime – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, March 2, 2023
- On the wooden path (German) – Suddeutsche Zeitung, March 2, 2023
- Teak from Myanmar: The timber industry cashed in, the military junta profited (German) – Sueddeutsche Zeitung, March 2, 2023
- Deforestation Inc.: How ‘green’ firms prevent climate action – DW, March 1, 2023
- Forests destroyed with the green certificate: the global eco-label scandal (Italian) – Espresso Repubblica, March 1, 2023
- The Global Business of Wood: How ruthless timber companies get their certificates (German) – Sueddeutsche Zeitung, March 1, 2023
- Loggers with the sustainability seal had more than R$ 100 million in fines from Ibama (Portuguese) – Publica, March 1, 2023
- Environmental auditors approve green labels for products linked to deforestation and authoritarian regimes – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, March 1, 2023
- Frequently asked questions about the Deforestation Inc. investigation – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, March 1, 2023
- DEFORESTATION INC: At least 48 auditing firms certified companies that destroy forests as sustainable (Spanish) – Convoca.pe, March 1, 2023
- How auditing giant KPMG became a global sustainability leader while serving companies accused of forest destruction – International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, March 1, 2023
- Stolen Forest – An Authority That Looks Away (4/4) (German radio broadcast) – NDR, March 2, 2023
- Stolen Forest – Precious Wood (3/4) (German radio broadcast) – NDR, March 2, 2023
- Stolen Forest – Transylvania’s Timber Mafia (2/4) (German radio broadcast) – NDR, March 2, 2023
- Stolen Forest – Project Sylvia (1/4) (German radio broadcast) – NDR, March 1, 2023
Austria
- Deforestation, smuggling, greenwashing: The dirty business with the forest (German) – Profil, March 1, 2023
Belgium
- #Investigation: The electric car at all costs + Pellets: a not-so-perfect fuel (video report in French) – RTBF, February 9, 2023
- #Investigation: pellets, a not-so-perfect fuel (French) -RTBF, January 18, 2023
Bulgaria
- What does deforestation in Bulgaria lead to? (Bulgarian) – DW, September 13, 2022
Canada
- Why wood from B.C. forests is burning to fuel U.K. energy needs (video) – The Fifth Estate, CBC, October 6, 2022
Denmark
- American researcher: “If everyone did like Denmark, we would be screwed” (Danish) – Borsen, March 28, 2023
- Up to 44 percent of the wood that is felled in Denmark cannot be traced (Danish) – Via Ritzau, March 26, 2023
- The government is against a new EU initiative to limit the burning of biomass (Danish) – Information, March 23, 2023
- Biomass can destroy Denmark’s green image (Danish) – Ekstra Bladet, September 12, 2022
- NOAH: Green Power Denmarks myths on biomass (Danish) – Klimamonitor, September 12, 2022
- NOAH: Stop the burning of forests for energy (Danish) – Altinget, September 9, 2022
- NOAH: Denmark should work to stop EU from burning forest biomass for energy (Danish) – Altinget, June 21, 2022
- Denmark’s false climate solution (Danish) – Ekstra Bladet, May 12, 2022
- NOAH: The Danish climate minister should acknowledge that biomass isn’t renewable energy (Danish) Altinget – January 12, 2022
Estonia
- Sikkut: it is not possible to connect all planned offshore wind farms to the Estonian grid (interview, Estonian) – ERR, March 22, 2023
- VIDEO | European Environment Commissioner: stop making pellets from Estonian wood and burning the forest for energy (interview with Lithuanian Environment Commissioner Virginijus Sinkevičius) – Roheportaal, January 21, 2023
Finland
- Saariselkä’s holiday oasis is heated with trees from pristine virgin forests – “There is no other solution” (Finnish) – Helsingin Sanomat, March 10, 2023
- The story of the destroyed forest (Finnish) – Yle, March 6, 2023
- Eye roll trick (Finnish) – Helsingin Sanomat, February 27, 2023
- Finland’s emissions are decreasing even faster than expected – correcting the collapse of carbon sinks, however, requires determined actions (Finnish) – Yle, February 23, 2023
- Finnish version of the famous nature report: Energy tax for burning wood, pictures of farm animals on food packages (Finnish) – Helsingin Sanomat, February 9, 2023
- Luke: EU could fine Finland €7bn bill over carbon sink collapse – Yle, December 21, 2022
- Climate protection cannot be achieved without limiting logging (Finnish) – Helsingin Sanomat, December 20, 2022
- The new information was surprising: Finland is still warming the climate as much as in the 1990s (Finnish) – Helsingin Sanomat, December 16, 2022
- Activists file legal challenge over Finnish climate inaction – RFI, November 28, 2022
- Finland’s shaky pipe dream (German) – Taz, September 26, 2022
France
- France seeks EU okay to fund biomass plants, burn Amazon forest to power Spaceport – Mongabay, February 23, 2023
- The French Amazon is threatened by the development of the biomass industry and fake renewable energies (op ed)- Le Monde, February 7, 2023
- Burning Forests in the name of Climate Change? (video exposé in French with English subtitles) – Partager C’est Sympa, January 30, 2023
Germany
- March 17th Newsreel (German) – Schlaglichter, March 17, 2023
- Forest in the climate crisis: burn instead of protect? (German TV) – Das Erste, March 2, 2023
- This US wood pellet giant is entering the German market (German) – Der Spiegel, March 1, 2023
- Poplars for heating: Vattenfall burns wood and calls this climate-neutral (German) – Berliner Zeitung, February 7, 2023
- Out of the energy crisis with local heating? (German TV piece) – BR24, January 24, 2023
- How far is your district in terms of the energy transition? (German) – RND, January 21, 2023
- Heated forests: Big business with firewood and pellets (German) – BR24, December 2, 2022
- The forest is not a miracle cure (German) – Zeit Online, November 26, 2022
- Controversy over heating with wood: Really climate neutral? (German) – Tagesschau, October 31, 2022
- Heated debate: How useful is heating with wood? (German) – BR24, October 31, 2022
- Leag ramps up lignite blocks and buys wood (German) – KilmaReporter, October 4, 2022
- Boiler heated homeowners (German) – Focus Online, September 4, 2022
- Wood burning protests (German) – Taz, September 2, 2022
- Don’t burn our forests! Spectacular protest at the thermal power station in Hamburg (German) – Nabu, September 2, 2022
- Controversy over biomass as a renewable energy (German) – Tagesspiegel, September 2, 2022
- “Save forests, don’t burn them”: protest action in front of the Hamburg power plant (German) – Mopo, September 2, 2022
- “Pellets are the new toilet paper” (German) – Suddeutsche Zeitung, August 30, 2022
- Environmental organizations are calling for renewable heat for Hamburg’s Tiefstack thermal power station (German) – Solarserver, June 16, 2022
- Hamburg: What people do here in their homes is cozy and deadly – many do not know it (German) – Moin, February 14, 2022
Hungary
- We also burn forests in the name of environmental protection (Hungarian) – Greenfo, March 4, 2023
- How environmentally friendly is biomass really? (Hungarian) – Greendex, March 4, 2023
- We also burn forests in the name of environmental protection (Hungarian) – Szabad Europa, March 3, 2023
- The share of renewables in EU energy consumption has fallen, but the figures are also greatly distorted by the burning of firewood – G7, January 28, 2023
- Hungary manipulates the data of green solutions (Hungarian) – HirKlikk, January 23, 2023
- Hungarian climate targets are unsustainable with increasing logging and we will not comply with EU regulations either (Hungarian) – Masfelfok, November 30, 2022
Italy
- Waste burned with wood, trees cut down to get more incentives, ties with clans: what’s behind the seizure of the biomass plant in Cutro (Crotone) (Italian audio report) – il Fatto Quotidiano , October 5, 2022
- Europe towards the elimination of forest biomass subsidies. But for environmentalists too many exceptions and uncertain times (Italian audio report) – il Fatto Quotidiano , September 20, 2022
Netherlands
- Entire forests are cut down – and yet that wood is called ‘sustainable’ (Dutch) – NRC, March 3, 2023
- The import of teak from Myanmar continues despite European sanctions (Dutch) – NRC, March 1, 2023
- How teak from Myanmar illegally ends up with Dutch superyacht builders (Dutch) – NRC, March 1, 2023
- Judge puts an end to the Sabic biomass plant (Dutch) – Het Financieele Dagblad, February 15, 2023
- Johan Vollenbroek drives huge biomass plant Sabic into the wheels (Dutch) – Bnnvara, February 15, 2023
- Everyone wants to take a hot shower. But do you have to burn trees for that? Nine questions about biomass (Dutch) – de Volkskrant, February 12, 2023
- New report shows Dutch sustainability criteria for biomass unlawful – Energy in Demand, February 11, 2023
- Certify on paper without looking at the forest (Dutch) – Bnnvara, February 8, 2023
- Biomass debate flares up further now that Australia stops “sustainable”logging: “house of cards is starting to collapse” (Dutch) – De Telegraaf, December 29, 2022
- Climate summit 2022 is mopping up CO2 with subsidy tap open (Dutch) – Bnnvara, November 11, 2022
- Protected forests processed as biomass: “Plundering” (Dutch) – De Telegraaf, September 9, 2022
- Fight against biomass to peak (Dutch) – De Telegraaf, September 5, 2022
Poland
- Biomass burning is deadly for forests (Polish) – Rzeczpospolita, March 23, 2023
- There is less and less wood, and Poland burns it in power plants. Both environmentalists and furniture manufacturers are protesting (Polish) – Forbes, March 3, 2023
- Activists say: Poland wastes one billion zlotys a year on pseudo-green biomass energy (Polish) – Rzeczpospolita, February 16, 2022
- Power industry as a competition for the wood industry – Biznes Meble, February 1, 2023
- Trucks with timber cross the gate of the power plant every few minutes. 20 hectares of forest are going up in smoke here every day – Newsweek Poland, January 10, 2023
- Wood as biomass in RES? Recipe for burning forests instead of processing wood (Polish, interview with the president of the Association of Wood-Based Panels Producers in Poland) – Instytut Spraw Obywatelskich, January 3, 2023
- “Forests are not fuel.” Activists protested outside the ministry (Polish) – Interia Zielona, December 16, 2022
- The forest is not fuel. Protest in front of the Ministry of Climate and Environment (Polish) – Wyborcza, December 15, 2022
- Happening under the Ministry of Climate. Activists are demanding changes to the law. “Forests are not fuel” (Polish) – Radio ESKA, December 15, 2022
- The forest is not fuel! There will be a protest in front of the Ministry of Climate and Environment: Climate and forest activists are heading to the Ministry of Climate and Environment to protest against the treatment of forests as fuel in the energy sector. (Polish) – Rzeczpospolita, December 13, 2022
- ‘Green’ bio-power plants are eating up Poland’s natural forest (Polish) – Trouw, October 14, 2022
- Investigation of ecologists: In Poland, whole trees can be burned in power plants. Including from valuable forests (Polish) – Gazeta, September 9, 2022
Portugal
- EU with environmental goals in jeopardy due to burning wood for energy – report (Portuguese) Agroportal, November 8, 2022
- EU with environmental goals in jeopardy due to wood burning (Portuguese) – Mundo Ao Minuto, November 8, 2022
- Environmentalists worried about “complete lack of control” of biomass plants (Portuguese) – Publico, October 21, 2022
- ZERO calls for evaluation of public support for forest biomass plants (Portuguese) – Dnoticias, October 21, 2022
- Associação ZERO calls for evaluation of public support for forest biomass plants (Portuguese) – Noticias do Centro, October 21, 2022
- ZERO calls for evaluation of public support for forest biomass plants (Portuguese) – Greensavers, October 21, 2022
- ZERO calls for evaluation of public support for forest biomass plants (Portuguese) – Observador, October 21, 2022
- ZERO calls for evaluation of public support for forest biomass plants (Portuguese) – Porto Canal, October 21, 2022
- ZERO confirmed that only five biomass plants in Portugal are considered sustainable (Portuguese) – Sin Tra Life, October 21, 2022
- Only five biomass plants in Portugal are considered sustainable (Portuguese) – Agro Portal, October 21, 2022
- ZERO warns of irregularities in biomass plants (Portuguese) – Magazine Imobiliario, October 21, 2022
- ZERO waited two years to get information from ICNF on biomass plants (Portuguese) – Agua&Ambiente, October 21, 2022
- Biomass in Portugal: government must intervene! (Portuguese) – Jornal de Noticias, September 30, 2022
Romania
- “Illegal deforestation will increase” (German) – Tagesschau, March 1, 2023
- How wood robbers are destroying the oldest forests in Europe (German) – Der Spiegel, March 1, 2023
- Research on the trail of the wood mafia (German) – Suddeutsche Zeitung, March 1, 2023
- How old-growth forests from a national park in Romania are turned into pellets that you might use to heat your home (Romanian video story on how a national park was turned into wood pellets; English subtitles) – Declic, January 16, 2023
- Europe is Sacrificing Its Ancient Forests for Energy – New York Times, September 7, 2022
Spain
- Scientists warn that burning biomass from primary forests emits more CO2 than fossil fuels (Spanish) – El Español, March 22, 2023
Sweden
- Environmental organizations saw the reduction obligation: “A false climate solution” (Swedish) – SVT, March 21, 2023
- The government and the forest industry promote unsustainable forestry in the EU (Swedish) – Natursidan, February 10, 2023
- False marketing about sustainable forestry (Swedish) – Svenska Dagbladet, February 8, 2023
- Leak: Sweden tries to control EU negotiations on the forest (Swedish) – Dagens Nyheter, February 7, 2023
- In Sweden, the intensive exploitation of forests called into question (French) – Le Monde, January 3, 2023
- Swedish Government traveled to COP15 and deleted wording that “ecosystems are important” (Swedish) – Dagens Nyheter, December 16, 2022
- Despite Swedish government’s protest – EU law against deforestation voted through (Swedish) – Dagens Nyheter, December 6, 2022
- “One can not compensate for the nature values that have been destroyed” (Swedish Letter) – Dagens Nyheter December 2, 2022
- Swedish company SCA clear cut primary forest (Swedish) – Dagens Nyheter, November 25, 2022
- Sweden threatens European biodiversity (letter) – Science, October 27, 2022
- The scientists’ warning: The forest goes from a carbon sink to a source of emissions (Swedish) – Dagens Nyheter, October 1, 2022
- ‘We borrow our lands from our children’: Sami say they are paying for Sweden going “green” (English) – The Guardian, August 10, 2022
Switzerland
- Eco pellets? A video shows how consumers are deceived (German) – Tages Anzeiger, March 1, 2023
- Labels for “ecological” wood deceive the Swiss consumer (French) – Tribune de Genève, March 1, 2023
- Labels for “ecological” wood deceive the Swiss consumer (French) – 24 Heures, March 1, 2023
United Kingdom
- Drax presents investors with a unique dilemma – Investors’ Chronicle, March 2, 2023
- The true cost of wood-burning stoves (podcast)- The Guardian, February 19, 2023
- Why does Drax the tree destroyer get eco cash? – The Times, February 19, 2023
- Wood burning air pollution in UK has doubled in a decade – The Guardian, February 14, 2023
- “A serious threat”: Calls grow for urgent review of England’s wood-burning stoves – The Guardian, February 2, 2023
- UK’s old trees critical to climate change fight – BBC, December 20, 2022
- The Green Energy Scandal Exposed – BBC Panorama (video documentary) – October 3, 2022
Australia
- Australia rejects forest biomass in first blow to wood pellet industry – Mongabay, December 21, 2022
- Electricity generated by burning native Australian timber no longer classified as renewable energy – the Guardian, December 15, 2022
India
- The case for open, verifiable forest cover data – Indian Express, March 4, 2023
- In chase for growth and carbon targets, questions swirl over forests on paper – Indian Express, March 4, 2023
Worth Noting
- Huge fire at cogeneration plant: Ørsted cancels orders for hundreds of thousands of tons of wood pellets (Danish) – Finans, October 12, 2022