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Preserving nature and avoiding the worst impacts of climate change will require an extraordinary commitment to protect and restore natural forests.
Yet, EU leaders are undermining our shared efforts to fight for our forests and the planet. How? EU policy is increasing forest logging and associated greenhouse gas emissions by misleadingly promoting the burning of forest wood as “zero carbon” renewable energy.
Logging and burning forests is bad for the climate, bad for human health and bad for the plants and animals that call forests home. Yet every year, the EU becomes more dependent on burning wood to meet renewable energy targets and consumers are forced to hand over billions in subsidies annually to this false climate solution.
EU consumers and taxpayers are paying for this damage to forests, climate and air quality through renewable energy subsidies that are supposed to support “clean and green” energy. In 2017 alone, citizens in 15 EU Member States paid out over €6.5 billion in subsidies to burning wood for energy, and the total EU-wide figure is much higher.
Our forests provide us with fresh air and clean water and they help regulate rainfall cycles. They store carbon, buffer communities from the dangerous impacts of climate change, and are sanctuaries for an incalculable number of plant and animal species. Plundering them for fuel is a false solution that puts all these shared values in danger.
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Special thanks: Tegan Hansen, Michelle Connely, James Steidl, Xavier Turpain, John MacDougall
