Grassroots victory over California wood pellet export scheme shows folly of burning biomass to capture carbon Guest article by @vozsilvestre.bsky.social The failure of a proposal to bring the export-oriented wood pellet sector to CA exposes the global unviability of BECCS schemes #geoengineering

🚨 Join the first in our new webinar series! These sessions unpack some of the most common false solutions to the climate crisis, exploring the risks they pose & empowering NGOs and activists to challenge them. 🗓️ Friday, 27 June 2025 🕒 12–14 CEST 👉 Register now: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 1/

As @ClimateHome announces, in 30 minutes, we will issue mass call for reforms to rescue @UNFCCC process: bit.ly/3GbCeiA 🚨 LIVE ⏰ 4:30 PM CEST | 📍 Nairobi Room 4 | 🔴 Livestream: shorturl.at/ohJ0K #TheCOPWeNeed #FixTheUNFCCC

🚨 LIVE from #SB62: 200+ env, youth, women, disability & Indigenous orgs launch bold proposals to reform the UN Climate Talks #TheCOPWeNeed 📅 Mon June 23, 4:30 PM CEST 📍 Nairobi Room 4 🔴 Livestream: shorturl.at/ohJ0K 30 years of talks have failed to deliver #ClimateJustice. Time to #FixTheUNFCCC.

🪼🐳🦀 Read our statement calling for an end to marine geoengineering experiments ENG: bit.ly/4lgKU6v SPA: bit.ly/3HuP7op FR: bit.ly/3HuJCGi #WorldOceansDay #Geoengineering #OceanProtection #ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights #HandsOffMotherEarth @geoengmon.bsky.social @gfc-forest.bsky.social

New podcast about the problems with large-scale wood #biomass energy by Solutions for Our Climate, an NGO campaigning for a transition to genuinely clean renewable energy in Asia: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eIE...

🚨 𝗝𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱: “𝗔𝗥𝗜𝗔'𝘀 '𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗼𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴' 𝗙𝗼𝗹𝗹𝘆” Professors R. Pierrehumbert, M. Hulme, P. Newell & A. Stirling critique the UK Advanced Research and Invention Agency’s unprecedented £60 million solar geoengineering research initiative. A thread on their key concerns 👇

The Great Carbon Capture Scam <Carbon capture has always been a bioenergy and fossil fuel industry scam, designed to distract and delay critical measures to cut emissions by phasing out coal, oil, and gas and other dirty emissions intensive energy sources.>

As the race for biofuels intensifies, we’re sounding the alarm about their environmental impacts. This excellent piece details the dangers of unrestrained biofuel production: news.mongabay.com/2025/05/as-r...

Just amazing: Trump grew angry over a Biden-era program with the word "equity" in its name, so he ended it. But a key part of the program was sending money to red states to expand internet access in rural/MAGA country. Now they might not get it. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/1950...

We were at #Barclays’ AGM today to ask the bank to stop financing all companies expanding oil and gas production, as well as liquefied natural gas #LNG projects AND companies developing them, starting with TotalEnergies’ #PapuaLNG. ⤵️🧵 [1/8]

5 outdoor experiments are amongst the first projects to receive funding under UK research agency ARIA’s highly controversial £56.8 million solar geoengineering program - crossing a major red line by enabling technology development www.ciel.org/news/uk-agen...

Living Carbon wants to create #GMO trees that don't rot to sell as carbon offsets to huge emitters like Microsoft so they can do nothing to ACTUALLY reduce their emissions. What about the impact on soils, fungi, forests? They don't know. We visited them at their facilities on Santana St in Hayward.

Campaigners from Biofuelwatch, Stop Burning Trees, York TUC, Global Justice York, XR York & York FoE protesting against Drax's tree burning, carbon pollution and profiteering on the day of its AGM on Thursday! Take action against Drax's subsidies - contacct your MP! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

Drax are climate criminals!! And they were sent the message loud and clear last week at their AGM as they announced vast profits on the back of environmental, community and animal harm - Drax destroys the planet for profit - take action - contact your MP: actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...?

This is an official plan for ethnic cleansing. If you supported Israel for the past 18 months or so under the assumption that this was about the hostages you were taken for a ride. If you still support Israel's assault on Gaza, you support ethnic cleansing. It's that simple.

MUST READ especially for climate change concerned folks who think they can choose silence on genocide: “War causes extensive, long-lasting environmental damage, affecting landscapes, ecosystems, biodiversity, and vital resources.” 🧪 @iuscientist.bsky.social www.iuscientists.org/militarism-a...

#handsoffmotherearth #sayno2solargeo

Geoengineering is climate denial. Geoengineering is like trying to stop dying of thirst in the desert by applying a new brand of lip balm. Geoengineering is like trying to beat your heroin addiction by pretending fentanayl is methadone. Geoengineering is predatory delay. Don't fall for it. 2/2

🔥 New Update on Biochar 🔥 💸 Lucrative carbon offset sales are driving a boom in biochar production around the world, despite doubts that biochar can remove carbon from the atmosphere long term 🧐 See who’s involved, where, and what you should know: www.geoengineeringmonitor.org/geo-map-bioc...

🌍 Today marks 15 years since the launch of the Hands Off Mother Earth! (HOME) campaign — a powerful, global resistance against geoengineering. 🧵⤵️ #NoGeoengineering #HandsOffMotherEarth @geoengmon.bsky.social @ciel.org @etcgroup.bsky.social @cjaourpower.bsky.social @foeus.bsky.social

MPs question value of billions in subsidies granted to Drax power plant www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Preserving a stable climate demands that we engage in the struggle against authoritarianism. That means we must be in solidarity with our most vulnerable communities —especially migrant and immigrant families. Join Session #1 in our 3 part workshop series on 4/30! RSVP: stmp.link/immigrationj...

From our excellent event in Berkeley on the 25th anniversary of A16 mass mobilization in Washington, DC. GJEP ED Anne Petermann @annegjep.bsky.social speaks to an enthusiastic crowd. Thanks to @vozsilvestre.bsky.social @biofuelwatch.bsky.social and Bay Area Coalition for Headwaters! Photo: Langelle

GJEP's event in Berkeley last night about the Mapuche struggle for land, autonomy and culture was fantastic. As well, Orin's book Portraits of Struggle flew off the table. For those who missed it, here is our Breaking Green podcast on the findings of our Chile delegation @biofuelwatch.bsky.social

“I feel like something is happening generally in America,” she said, in an interview over a video link. “Something bad is happening. I don’t think everybody understands.”

Arbitrarily detained because she didn’t fill out an obscure form required for transporting frog embryos, which she wasn’t aware of. She’s still in prison. #Fascism

This is "a deeply unpopular and politically motivated attack on Planned Parenthood and reproductive freedom that will disproportionately harm families who are already struggling to make ends meet," said one advocate. www.commondreams.org/news/trump-p...

“Biofuels have no place in any policy designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in shipping or in other forms of transport." Press release: www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/imo-shi...

📻 <learn about the concerns arising from the #California pivot to high #deforestation risk liquid #biofuels> lostcoastoutpost.com/2025/mar/22/...

📣 Join GJEP on Wed 4-16-25 in Berkeley! "Indigenous Rights, Climate and Forests in Chile: report back from our human rts delegation last October with @annegjep.bsky.social PLUS West Coast launch for Portraits of Struggle photo book by Orin Langelle. @vozsilvestre.bsky.social @ienearth.bsky.social

Beyond shocking: @unepwcmc.bsky.social holds a "Nature Action Dialogue" with polluters including Drax: www.events-unep-wcmc.org! Drax was found to repeatedly have sourced significant quantities of wood from clearcutting of primary and oldgrowth forests in BC. #AxeDrax

"If the government can do this to universities, we don't live in a free society. Five alarm fire," wrote one professor. www.commondreams.org/news/dept-of...

Trump's aid cuts are bad news for international climate finance. I looked through the available data to work out how bad... Around 8% of the climate finance pledged to developing countries by rich countries last year came from the US. Those funds are now under threat. ➡️ buff.ly/BuxwfSL

the rate of natural sequestration of CO2 from the atmosphere by the terrestrial biosphere is now declining rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Loopholes in EU regulations appear to be driving unsustainable and fraudulent palm oil trade. Get the full story and read EIA’s new briefing 'The Palm Oil Black Box – EU trade loopholes' now at eia-international.org/news/alarmin... #forests #deforestation #palmoil #biofuel #EU

Important new report by Environmental Investigations Agency: eia-international.org/report/the-p... - looks at how lots of palm oil is getting into EU #biofuels under dubious, often false 'wastes and residues' labels. Same is likely to be true for imports to the UK and probably other countries.

Please listen to soundcloud.com/garygrahamhu... where our colleague @vozsilvestre.bsky.social describes the devastating impacts which large-scale #biofuel use in shipping would have. #biofuels

🌍 Who are we? HOME Alliance is a coalition of civil society, Indigenous Peoples, human rights, and climate justice groups. We reject geoengineering as a false climate solution and fight for real climate action.🧵👇 📖 Read our manifesto: handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/ha... #HandsOffMotherEarth

The $300 million lawsuit against #Greenpeace is an attack on us all. We will not stand idly by. We will not be bullied. We will not be divided and we will not be silenced. @biofuelwatch.bsky.social stands with Greenpeace. See open letter to Energy Transfer. www.greenpeace.org/usa/energy-t...

We stand with Greenpeace support the right to protest.

👉 There is mounting evidence that carbon markets do not deliver real emissions reductions and often lead to human rights abuses, land grabs, and violations of the rights of Indigenous Peoples. #HandsOffMotherEarth handsoffmotherearth.org/resources/pr...

📢 On the eve of #IPCC62, 100+ CSOs & #IndiegenousPeoples groups are calling on the @ipcc.bsky.social to center equity in how it approaches modeling and scenarios, prioritizing the #FossilFuelsPhaseOut & end reliance on highly speculative techs: www.realsolutions-not-netzero.org/ipcc-62-call...

#Biofuels are a major threat to #forests, communities & climate. Read the open letter we signed with 67 NGOs where we ask @imohq.bsky.social to NOT allow biofuels to count towards the new global fuel standard 👇Follow the next #IMO summit – London, 17/21 Feb. www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/2025/open-le...

Join us outside DESNZ to say: Ed, it’s time to #DumpDrax! 📅 Bring Valentine’s-themed placards, wear red & pink! Can’t make it to London? Host your own action! 🔗 Action pack: tinyurl.com/dump-drax-toolkit 📍 Register: tinyurl.com/register-dump-drax-demo

Hundreds of enviro + community groups called on Congress to end tax breaks for #CarbonCapture projects. @biofuelwatch.bsky.social joins communities across the United States rising up to oppose the carbon capture industry’s reckless expansion of CCS. See the letter via @foodandwater.bsky.social.

After Drax paid £25m penalty last year for misreporting wood sourcing to Ofgem, "the BBC has discovered a further year of misreporting that has not been looked at by the regulator": www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...