On Monday 28 May, the environmental NGO WWF warned of the risk that the new EU rules on biomass, set out in the draft revised directive on renewable energies currently under interinstitutional negotiation, could increase greenhouse gas emissions.
According to a report by the research agency for the United Kingdom’s forestry commission, the proposed EU renewable energy 2.0 directive contains hardly any of the biomass sustainability criteria that are needed to reduce emissions. This means...