Please sign and share this important petition by the Borneo Project in support of indigenous communities who're trying to stop their forest in the Belaga region of Sarawak being destroyed for a giant bamboo project: borneoproject.org/stopthechopb...

“TFFF is the old colonization dressed in green.” They want to convince us that selling the forest is saving it, but what they are doing is handing it over to the control of financial capital.” -Sila Mesquita Apurinã, Rede de Trabalho Amazônico – GTA demandclimatejustice.org/2025/11/06/t... #TFFF

🔴 A Climate Law for Polluters, Confirmed. Europe’s new 2040 #ClimateTarget locks in loopholes, not real climate action. Offsets, carbon removals, and review clauses won’t phase out fossil fuels — they just buy time for polluters. Read our statement 👇 www.realzeroeurope.org/resources/pr...

Related to that @theguardian.com piece is this 2011 #photo essay I @annegjep.bsky.social shot of a #Veracel eucalyptus operation in Bahia, Brazil on the field trip of an international conference on #GMO trees. climate-connections.org/2011/06/30/p... @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social

From today's @theguardian.com An article about the fight in #Brazil to get land back from timber giants and their "green desert" eucalyptus plantations - and the victories people are having! @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social @gmwatch.bsky.social @grain.org @annegjep.bsky.social

Wood-fired power generation is energy inefficient, environmentally unfriendly, & not “zero carbon” in any meaningful sense. “… we can’t have our forests and burn them too.” - Frances J. Seymour

The UK’s biggest carbon emitter & world’s biggest tree burner will be able to continue harming forests, the climate, wildlife & communities, with subsidies paid via our electricity bills. It's bidding to become an AI data centre campus - burning more trees, emitting more carbon, harming more forests

And this published on the day we learn that the government's granted four more years of massive subsidies to Drax, operator the UK's number one CO2 emitting power plant for burning millions of tonnes more imported wood pellets. 😠

www.theguardian.com/business/202... We're really sorry to be blunt, but the gov't is being wilfully stupid. A tree growing is a carbon sink. A tree built into a house is a carbon store. A tree burnt is a #ClimateDisaster. The failure to understand this simple line keeps #Drax's home fires burning.

GOVERNMENT SIGNS UP TO 4 MORE YEARS OF TREE BURNING AT DRAX read more here www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/governm...

👎 Down with the Tropical Forest Forever Facility #TFFF! 🤓"The Global Forest Coalition, which has more than a hundred affiliated groups in 71 countries, fears that governments will not hand over money directly, but will instead give it to government agencies and private companies"

The Trump's regime's bullying tactics to kill off a climate deal for shipping included not just threatening countries with tariffs but threatening individual negotiators, for example that family members would lose visas.

Pls sign and share this important petition by @skyddaskogen.bsky.social and @greenpeace.org calling on Nestlé, Essity and DS Smith to stop buying paper products from SCA and other companies that are destroying Sweden's natural, incl. oldgrowth forests: forestscandal.org

✍ GFC and some of our member groups signed the *Manifesto in defense of territories and food sovereignty against nature markets* Check it out! 🔗 grain.org/e/7322

Pls read the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social article about Drax on their website: www.private-eye.co.uk/in-the-back. New information about some Drax staff having questioned the wood pellet sourcing from British Columbia even before Drax acquired most of the pellet plant capacity there. #AxeDrax

Interesting insights into Drax Group by Old Sparky in Private Eye. Easier to read if you can buy the magazine. According to the article, staff had raised serious concerns re sustainability prior to Drax's acquisition of Pinnacle Pellets' plants in western Canada (We told the shareholders then, btw.)

HAPPENING NOW: Press Conference: "Indigenous Peoples Defend the CBD's de facto 2007 moratoria on genetically engineered trees" organized by Global Justice Ecology Project (SB8J) 🗣️Florina Lopez, Tom Goldtooth, Ninawa Huni Kui, Valentina Figuera Martinez webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1g...

Ten lawsuits filed by former workers at Drax power station, four of them going to trial next year, over wood dust pollution: www.theguardian.com/business/202... #biomass #AxeDrax

Op-ed by our colleague Pax Butchart about how harmful large-scale use of #biofuels in shipping would be to the climate, to rainforests and to indigenous and other forest-dependent communities: www.supplychainbrain.com/articles/427...

Really good to see this research published by @globalactionplan.bsky.social, Ricardo and @hertscc.bsky.social today. Domestic combustion is a major source of fine particle pollution in the UK, and this new research shows we could save the NHS more than £54m a year if unnecessary burning was stopped.

Updated Malaysia's Timber Colony Exposing Malaysia’s Grip Over Papua New Guinea’s Forests bmf.ch/upload/Dokum...

‘The burning of wood and coal in homes contributes to almost 2,500 deaths a year in the UK, analysis has found. Stopping unnecessary burning would save the NHS more than £54m a year.’ @dpcarrington.bsky.social @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Indeed. In addition, high electricity bills have been largely due to the high price of fossil gas: www.carbonbrief.org/factcheck-wh.... And the 'answer' Keir Starmer is reportedly considering is....more fossil gas!

Timber Industry’s New Strategy: Gene-Edited Trees - How to get around #GMO tree opposition and regulations? pretend gene editing isn't GE! globaljusticeecology.org/the-timber-i... @gmofreeusa.bsky.social @gmofreeeurope.bsky.social @infogm.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social

Ahead of World Bank decision on the Tropical Forests Forever Facility (TFFF), the Global Forest Coalition (GFC) is urging governments, Indigenous Peoples, Local Communities, and civil society to reject the proposed forest finance mechanism. www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO25...

Very sad to see that vital public health legislation focussed on harmful emissions from solid fuel, mostly #biomass burning isn't being enforced:

BREAKING: Our latest research shows a 65% increase in complaints in Smoke Control Areas across England since last year. Families across the country are suffering from neighbours’ burning, yet even after thousands of complaints, barely a handful of fines have been issued. #AirPollution #WoodBurning

Dismal. Erosion of nature is dismantling means of survival for all species. The Climate and ecological emergencies are inextricably linked.

Africa is standing up to #BigBadBiomass ✊🌍 On the International Dayof Action on Big Biomass, we say: Cut Subsidies, Not Forests! 🌳 🌲🌴🌱🌿 #IDoA #biomass #Africa @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @handsoffmotherearth.org

$250 billion in subsidies for #BigBadBiomass supports an industry that undermines efforts to reduce emissions, pollutes communities and degrades forests and biodiversity. Read more environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...

Campaigners hold a banner action against a new biomass plant in Stade, Germany today as part of the International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass. Read more: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa... @biofuelwatch.bsky.social @nabu.de @robinwood.bsky.social Cut Subsidies, Not Forests!

Blog article by @ceebankwatch.bsky.social highlights the growing threats and impacts of #BigBadBiomass in West Balkan region. With a link to our map of biomass and pellet plants (also below). www.linkedin.com/posts/cee-ba...

🌍 Today is International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass! Follow us all day for stories, actions, & voices uniting to expose the truth behind this so-called “green” energy. Biomass = no climate benefit, forests clearcut, $250B in subsidies wasted. 🌳 buff.ly/aad9KgI

This International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass, learn more through our community health survey and podcast: www.selc.org/news/pellet-...

Celebrate International Day of Action on Big Biomass with us. Demand accountability from Enviva - the world's largest wood pellet producer - now operating with less oversight, but the same harmful pollution. Sign the petition: buff.ly/IRdA6mf #BigBadBiomass #IDOA

Biomass energy is a false solution! It has no climate benefit and results in forests getting clearcut. And shamefully, it's being promoted by $250 billion spent in government subsidies globally. Learn more👇 @environmentalpaper.bsky.social #BigBadBiomass 🖼️ : Heartwood Visuals https://bit.ly/49acCPd

$250 billion in subsidies for #BigBadBiomass supports an industry that undermines efforts to reduce emissions, pollutes communities and degrades forests and biodiversity. Read more environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...

On International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass a coalition of civil society groups is calling on the governments of Japan and South Korea to stop importing wood pellets sourced from natural forest deforestation. Visit: fwi.or.id Save the forests, save life. environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

Today is the The International Day of Action on Big Biomass: "Cut Subsidies, Not Forests." #BigBadBiomass LEARN MORE and take action via the Biomass Action Network: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa... @biofuelwatch.bsky.social

Today is the International Day of Action on Big Biomass! UK: tell your MP to speak out against funding for Drax’s tree-burning: tinyurl.com/yddsnsx7 And please SIGN the petition against Drax’s tree-powered data centre plans: tinyurl.com/y8b3ah3u #BigBadBiomass #RainforestRescue #ActForRainforest

The aim of the International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass is to amplify the destructive impacts of biomass energy on people and planet, like this article "Burning More Forests Won't Cool the Planet" by BAN Coordinator Peg Putt, featured in Hobart news today. environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

New podcast published by @gfc-forest.bsky.social today exposes the serious impacts of eucalyptus plantations used to make charcoal for steel production and #biochar in Minas Gerais, Brazil: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOil... #BigBadBiomass

#BigBadBiomass - Protest outside the biomass plant in Piesteritz today

📣 Aktionstag gegen das Verbrennen von Holz. Mit @robinwood.bsky.social , Biofuelwatch und Aktiven vor Ort fordern wir in Berlin, Wittenberg, Chemnitz & Stade echte Erneuerbare Energie! Hilfst du uns dabei, Deutschland größtes Holzkraftwerk in Stade zu verhindern? 👉 weact.campact.de/petitions/de...

Wälder nicht verfeuern! 🔥 #BigBadBiomass Heute, am internationalen Aktionstag gegen das Verfeuern von Holz, fordern wir auf dem Berliner Teufelsberg den Stopp aller Kraftwerksprojekte zum Verfeuern von Waldholz und Altholz in #Berlin! 👉 Mehr Infos? www.robinwood.de/pressemittei...

👉 Von den Leipziger Stadtwerken fordern wir, ihre ineffizienten & unwirtschaftlichen Holzkraftwerke in Piesteritz-Wittenberg und Bischofferode endlich stillzulegen statt zu verkaufen & die neu geplanten Fernwärme-Holzkraftwerke in Berlin, Stade und Chemnitz wären ein klimaschädlicher teurer Irrweg.

The UK Government is cutting into environmental policy in every way that it can, especially in its Planning and Infrastructure Bill. Here is an example of why you should act on this: www.wcl.org.uk/environmenta...

It's the International Day of Action on #BigBadBiomass & around the world groups are demanding that governments “Cut Subsidies, Not Forests”! Take part in our Social Media Action & post a picture of yourself to #BigBadBiomass. See our Toolkit here: environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

For the International day of Action on #BigBadBiomass Legacy Forest Defense Coalition in Washington (WLFDC) organized an action to highlight the imminent destruction of forests in the Chehalis River watershed - an area eyed by PNWRE & Drax for wood pellets. environmentalpaper.org/2025/08/idoa...

New report exposes the scale of #biomass subsidies worldwide: #BigBadBiomass Energy = No climate benefit, forests clearcut: shamefully promoted by $250 billion spent in subsidies globally. Read more environmentalpaper.org/2025/10/burn...