Bio-energy events
In May and June 2010, GFC organized a European tour on the impact of wood-based bioenergy on forests, forest dependant people and the climate.
Dates EU tour
- 28 May, seminar on bioenergy in London, UK
- 3 June, seminar on bioenergy in the European Parliament in Brussels, Belgium
Presentations
Developments of wood-based bionenergy in the Netherlands and EU
Deepak Rughani, Biofuelwatch, UK
Impacts of large scale plantations in Brazil
Camila Morena, Friends of the Earth Brazil
GE Trees and woodbased bioenergy
Anne Petermann, Global Justice Ecology Project, US
Free Trade and Climate Change
Mary Lou Malig, Focus on the Global South, Philippines
Impact of bio-energy production on Indigenous Peoples and alternative approaches for climate change mitigation
Estebancio Castro Diaz, International Alliance of Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of Tropical Forests, Panama
Resources
Briefings
Industrial Bio-energy: more plantations and industrial logging to fuel power stations? Biofuelwatch
Biomass, Mary S. Booth, Massachusetts Environmental Energy Alliance
Reports
The real cost of agrofuels: impacts on food, forests, people and the climate
The Biomass Dilemma, Dr Ivan Gyulai, CEEweb
Agrofuels Crops, Transnational Institute
Papers
Impacts of genetically engineered trees
GE Trees, Cellulosic Biofuels and Destruction of Forest Biological Diversity
Ecological and Social Impacts of Fast Growing Timber Plantations and Genetically Engineered Trees
Maps
UK biomass power stations 30 MW and above
Articles
Trees: Out of the forest and into the oven, IPS
Britain cuts down forests to keep 'green' power stations burning, Times Online
Destroying with one hand, taking with the other: Biomass, REDD and forests, Chris Lang
A modern death of the forests, Focus (English translation)
Who says it's green to burn woodchips?, The Independent
