Totally nuts!-----EU shamed as forests destroyed to make green energy: 'From burning one climate to another' | Science | News | Express.co.uk

EU shamed as forests destroyed to make green energy: 'From burning one climate to another' | Science | News | Express.co.uk

• THE EU has been shamed by campaigners, who claim the bloc is "sacrificing forests" after it published proposals that would allow trees to continue to be burned for fuel.

"It came after the European Commission unveiled its forest strategy, which includes a goal to plant three billion trees across the bloc by 2030. 

...According to reports, around 20 percent of the energy the EU counts and subsidises as “renewable” comes from logging and burning forest wood.

...Lina Burnelius, project leader at Protect the Forest Sweden, said the commission had failed to address one of the key drivers of forest degradation – counting forest biomass as renewable energy...Read all.