More than 70 civil society organisations wrote to the European Commission on Friday 9 April to express their dismay at the criteria for forestry and bioenergy in the draft delegated act on EU taxonomy that was recently leaked to the press.
According to these organisations, the leaked text(see EUROPE B12684A3) would allow almost all current forestry to be defined as “green” and the burning of forest biomass for energy purposes to be defined as sustainable.
In particular, they criticise...