Burning forests for energy isn’t ‘renewable’ – now the EU must admit it

Increasing volumes of wood pellets and other wood fuels are being imported from outside the EU to satisfy Europe’s growing appetite for burning forests for energy. But burning forest biomass will produce higher emissions than fossil fuels during the coming decisive decades.

Climate activist Greta Thunberg: "Europe’s directly elected representatives now have to choose: they can either save the EU’s “climate targets” with their legislative loopholes or they can begin saving our climate, because right now, that is not what EU targets are working towards."

Next week the future of many of the world’s forests will be decided when members of the European parliament vote on a revised EU renewable energy directive. 

If the parliament fails to change the EU’s discredited and harmful renewables policy, European citizens’ tax money will continue to pay for forests around the globe to literally go up in smoke every day.