Governments should stop wasting billions of euros in subsidising new biomass power plants and the conversion of existing power plants because it is unsustainable, the European Academies Science Advisory Council (EASAC) has said. ‘Burning wood does not produce very much _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/biomass-burning-not-sustainable-subsidies-must-stop-say-european-scientists/

The wood-pellet biomass industry has long maintained that it is only burning wood residues — the bits of trees left over from other uses. Wood that otherwise would have left on the forest floor and decomposed anyway. Environmental campaigners in _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/new-eu-rules-to-allow-burning-of-whole-forests-for-biomass/

Plans to convert Britain’s biggest power station to run on greener fuels were in jeopardy last night after the European Commission ordered an “in-depth investigation” into a possible violation of state aid rules. The giant Drax plant in North Yorkshire, _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/blow-to-drax-biomass-plan-as-europe-launches-state-aid-investigation/

India’s oil demand is projected to rise by 74% by 2040, natural gas demand is expected to more than triple while coal demand is seen rising to 772 million tonnes in 2040 from the current 590. India will overtake the _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/the-new-superpower-india-to-overtake-eu-as-worlds-third-largest-energy-consumer-by-2030/

Europeans are paying €billions for increasing carbon emissions in the atmosphere Sustainability goes to the heart of the European renewable energy debate. The drive to replace coal, one of the world’s biggest sources of carbon emissions, with cleaner sources of _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/how-the-race-for-renewables-is-burning-europes-forests/

Given that Japan’s new prime minister Yoshihide Suga (71) and the rest of Japan’s reigning gerontocracy will probably be dead long before the carbon pledge is due, the whole thing is being taken with a pinch of wasabi. Japan’s new _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/japans-carbon-neutral-pledge-looks-like-a-load-of-hot-air/

Environmental campaign groups denounced the EU Commission’s plan to include carbon sinks in the EU’s climate target, saying this was “an accounting trick” to meet the 2030 goals. The European Commission on Thursday defended its plan to bring carbon removals _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/eu-commission-under-fire-for-including-accounting-tricks-in-2030-climate-goals/

Environmental thinktank Sandbag claims biomass does not allow ‘near-immediate carbon and cost reductions’ Governments should focus policy support on renewable energy sources such as wind and solar rather than on biomass, which delivers questionable carbon savings. That’s the verdict from environmental _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/biomass-delivers-questionable-carbon-savings-says-new-report/

The consequences to people living in European countries will be disastrous after the EU Parliament declared “Climate Emergency” in its session on 28 November 2019, believes Dr. Waheed Uddin, a professor, consultant, former UN expert, author of books on infrastructure, and _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/eu-parliaments-climate-emergency-will-lead-to-disastrous-consequences-former-un-expert/

At a press conference on Wednesday (20th November), the European Parliament was told: ‘there is no climate emergency’. One MEP became emotional and accused the organisers of ‘collective manslaughter’ on future generations. The press conference was hosted by the European _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/european-parliament-told-there-is-no-climate-emergency/

Germany will not meet its carbon emissions targets in 2020 despite spending billions of euros Germany was once heralded as an example of how ingenuity and sheer willpower could force an energy market to reform in the face of climate _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/german-energiewende-flops-despite-spending-billions-of-euros/

Scientists say a new EU policy on biomass is ‘simplistic and misleading’ and will increase CO2 emissions. U.S. forests are being turned into wood pellets to feed demand. The European Union declared this week that it could make deeper greenhouse _…

https://www.netzerowatch.com/burning-wood-as-renewable-energy-threatens-europes-climate-goals/