Thread: 1. The EU Commission’s draft for the review of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) has been leaked and it completely fails to deal with the key issue it set out to address – the support for forest biomass as renewable energy. Here is why: 2. The proposal will continue to allow the burning of trees for energy to be supported as renewable energy under the RED. And it will continue to count it as zero-emissions in the energy sector. Creating the basis for continued member state subsidies for wood burning.

Just a reminder: The #bioenergy industry is claiming to burn "forestry residues". This is the photographic evidence from across Europe (& US).
Looks like trees to me.
@TimmermansEU needs to end this

(1/7)Today the EU Commission’s JRC published an important study, providing further evidence why burning forest biomass must no longer be supported as RE: It found that 19 out of the 24 current sourcing practices for bioenergy pose a risk to either climate or biodiversity, or both (2/7) Amongst the lose-lose practices is the use of “coarse woody debris”. The only pathways that might be deemed acceptable are scenarios using “fine woody debris” (3,5,7) below a threshold and two involving afforestation on former agricultural land (18,19).