The Climate Impact
The Carbon Costs of Global Wood Harvests
What the IPCC Really Says on Forest Biomass & Climate Change
What Does the Glasgow Declaration Mean for Biomass?
500+ Scientists Tell EU to End Tree Burning for Energy
Serious Mismatches Continue Between Science and Policy in Forest Bioenergy
European Academies Science Advisory Council: Climate Impact of Woody Biomass
The Risks of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)
Burning Bread: How bioenergy with carbon capture (BECCS) would undermine UK food security
Response to Supplemental Evidence Submitted by Drax to Environmental Audit Committee
A Statement by Scientists and Economists on BECCS from Forest Biomass
CCNF Response to BEIS Call for Evidence on Greenhouse Gas Removals
Net Zero and Beyond: What Role for Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage?
Comments on BECCS Submitted to the UK Parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee
The Threat to Wildlife
Scientists Letter on the Impacts of Biomass on Biodiversity, January 2023
The Impacts of UK Biomass Imports on Our Planet’s Birdlife
UK Biomass Imports Threaten Global Biodiversity
Global Markets for Biomass Energy Are Devastating U.S. Forests
Burning Trees for Power: The Truth about Woody Biomass, Energy & Wildlife
Intensive Logging Impacts in Estonian and Latvian Forests
Canada’s Growing Wood Pellet Export Industry Threatens Forests, Wildlife and our Climate
Announcing the World’s 36th Biodiversity Hotspot: The North American Coastal Plain
Threat Map of Southeast U.S. Wood Pellet Plants Exporting to Europe
Fern Fact Sheet: How Bioenergy Harms Biodiversity
Wood Pellet Industry Harms Birds of Conservation Concern in the U.S. Southeast
Satellite Images Show Link Between Wood Pellet Demand and Increased Hardwood Forest Harvesting
Biomass Sourcing in Estonia May Violate UK Sustainability Standards for Biomass
The Threat to Vulnerable Communities
Europe’s Green Energy Is Stripping US Communities of Green Forests
NAACP: Resolution in Opposition to Wood Pellets Manufacturing and Use of Wood-Bioenergy
ABC News: Impoverished Communities Pay for Worsening Impacts of Climate Change, Experts Say
How Marginalized Communities in the South Are Paying the Price for ‘Green Energy’ in Europe
Wood Pellet Plants Harming Eastern NC Communities, Sickening Residents, Critics Say
Europe’s Wood Pellet Market Is Worsening Environmental Racism in the American South
PM2.5 Polluters Disproportionately and Systemically Affect People of Color in the United States
The Cost of Subsidies
Bioenergy Is Putting Britain’s Energy Security at Risk
Drax Received More Than £800m in Biomass Subsidies Last Year—With No Obvious Climate Benefit
Burnout 2020: The UK Is Now the Top Subsidiser of Bioenergy in Europe
The Burning Question: Should the UK End Tax Breaks on Burning Wood for Power?
About Us
Cut Carbon Not Forests is a campaign to remove subsidies from companies that burn trees for electricity, co-ordinated by a coalition of UK and US-based NGOs. Join us in asking the Government to redirect biomass subsidies to real clean and renewable energy.
To contact the CCNF coalition: CCNF@cutcarbonnotforests.org
For media inquiries please contact: CCNF@finnpartners.com
