EU carbon target threatened by biomass 'insanity'
Source: The Guardian
EU carbon target threatened by biomass 'insanity'
Renewable energy targets are driving tree-cutting for biomass
energy – and may cause Europe to miss its 2020 carbon target
Arthur Neslen for EurActiv, part of the Guardian Environment Network
guardian.co.uk, Monday 2 April 2012 13.43 BST
The EU's emissions reduction target for 2020 could be facing an unlikely but grave obstacle, according to a growing number of scientists, EU officials and NGOs: the contribution of biomass to the EU's renewable energy objectives for 2020.
On 29 March, a call was launched at the European Parliament for Brussels to reconsider its carbon accounting rules for biomass emissions, and EurActiv has learned that the issue is provoking widespread alarm in policy-making circles.
"We're paying people to cut their forests down in the name of reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and yet we are actually increasing them. No-one is apparently bothering to do any analysis about this," one Brussels insider told EurActiv.
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