Global Impacts - No Leith Biomass Plant
No to Leith Biomass Plant
What can I do? Click the blue button to sign the 2012 Petition, to persuade MSPs to oppose subsidising big biomass in Scotand
The Global Impacts of Using Wood & Plants for Fuel
The rush to meet the global demand for biomass and biofuels leads to deforestation, illegal logging, flooding risks and large-scale monoculture plantations at high cost to biodiversity, fresh water, people, soil and climate. Increasingly, there is evidence of land-grabbing, eviction of indigenous peoples, human rights abuses.
Forests, Biodiversity and Indigenous People: Deforestation (Friends of the Earth Scotland)
Industrial Bioenergy: more Plantations and Industrial Logging to Fuel Power Stations? (Biofuelwatch)
Biofuels for Europe Driving Land Grabbing in Africa (30/08/10)
Africa: the scale and impact of landgrabbing for agrofuels (FoE publication)
West Papua: a Deforestation Case Study (FoEScotland)
Stop the Destruction of Forests and Lands for Wood-based Bio-Energy
Biofuels: a Disaster in the Making (Global Forest Coalition)
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