Forests and Climate Change

Increasingly around the world pulp and paper mills are installing over-sized, dedicated biomass boilers alongside more traditional cogeneration units to take advantage of strong support and incentives for producing electricity…

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The concepts of “Net Gain” and “No Net Loss” have become popular in biodiversity conservation circles and are embraced in the first draft of a new global biodiversity framework released…

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The Pego power station in Portugal represents a high risk for investors and financiers, according to a “Dodgy Deal” briefing published today by five environmental groups (1), who urged funders to…

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Forestry and land-use are a hot topic in the current climate debate, and play an important role in German climate finance. This article, originally published on germanclimatefinance.de, looks at tree…

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Today is International Civil Aviation Day and we’re launching a second case study on the false solutions that the International Civil Aviation Authority (ICAO) is basing its climate strategy on.…

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Please join us in taking action to prevent the FSC from changing its rules on research into genetically-modified trees. We are supporting GJEP’s efforts to encourage public consultation responses (full…

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As the global climate negotiations convene for the 26th time, this time in Glasgow, Scotland, we are reminded once more of the extent to which climate change is the largest,…

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PRESS RELEASE: for immediate use Nature-based Solutions to Climate Change Harmful for Women, New Report Finds 2 November, 2021 — Nature-based Solutions to climate change like forest carbon offsets cause…

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The Biomass Working Group’s Africa sub-group has commemorated International Day Against Big Biomass by releasing the following statement to allies and the media. For a full list of events taking…

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This case study, produced by Colectivo VientoSur, the Global Forest Coalition and the Environmental Paper Network, assesses the impacts of the Valdivia biomass power plant in the Los Rios region…

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