Will bioenergy with carbon capture (BECCS) work?
Ember’s Phil Macdonald explains his report on BECCS at Drax. Will a future BECCS plant be eye-wateringly expensive and actually make our climate worse?
Mike Norton on “transformative change” and science policy
Edward Robinson speaks to Prof Michael Norton, outgoing director of the environment programme at the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC). Mike speaks about the need to understand what ‘transformative change’ actually is, the gap between science and policy urgency on environmental boundaries and on the flawed concept of GDP.
Greenpeace’s Doug Parr on climate change policy
Alasdair MacEwen speaks to Doug Parr, Chief Scientist and Head of Policy at Greenpeace UK about how climate policy has changed and what might happen after the pandemic.
Food and the struggle for Africa’s sovereignty
Jihen Chandoul argues that post-independence clarity on the link between food self-sufficiency and sovereignty offers lessons for today.
UK: Joint NGO Statement on BECCS
19 environmental NGOs warn the UK government about the risks associated with Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS)
Peat bogs: restoring them could slow climate change – and revive a forgotten world
Professor Ian Rotherham (of Sheffield Hallam University) explains why restoring peat bogs is so important for combating climate change via carbon recovery.
EU renewable energy policy subsidizes surge in logging of Estonia’s protected areas
The survival of Europe’s most valuable – and threatened – wildlife and habitats depends on Natura 2000. By Siim Kuresoo of the Estonian Fund for Nature (ELF).
The EU should support efforts in Denmark and the Netherlands to stop wood-burning
Annika Lund Gade, of Green Transition Denmark, and Peter de Jong, of Natuur & Milieu.
Should the UK end tax breaks on burning wood for power?
Phil MacDonald, of the clean energy think tank Ember, argues that it’s time to end the nearly £1 billion per year subsidy to wood burning in the UK.
Infographic – burning wood for energy
Burning wood for heat and power doesn’t make environmental or economic sense. This infographic shows why.
