On Monday, March 4, a group of NGOs initiated legal proceedings with the Court of Justice of the European Union seeking to have the forest biomass provisions of the European Renewable Energy Directive (RED II) repealed.
The plaintiffs, from five Member States (Estonia, France, Ireland, Romania, Slovakia) and the United States, claim that the Directive, by encouraging the use of forest biomass as a renewable energy source, will lead to the devastation of forests and increased greenhouse gas...