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The global energy transition is seen as an important response to the growing security challenge of climate change. Going low-carbon will alter the way we produce, what we trade, and with whom we exchange goods and services. It will also impact the security landscape: the pathways toward carbon neutrality will unleash political tensions between those with more and those with less ambition and lead to heated debate around how to get to the final destination. As the EU positions itself as a global climate leader through its European Green Deal, it needs to prepare for new types of external policy challenges and must retool its approach to climate security to meet those challenges. This will involve not just the mainstreaming of climate security into standard instruments of EU foreign policy but also questioning how the EU’s determination to be a global decarbonization leader will impact ecological security more broadly.
Bioenergy Europe welcomes report on sustainability of woody biomass for energy bioenergy-news.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from bioenergy-news.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Monday, 25 January 2021 Bioenergy Europe welcomes the report by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission on the use of woody biomass for energy production in the EU. With the sustainability of biomass firmly at the center of media attention, the report calls for an honest and explicit discussion to “de-toxify the debate surrounding the sustainability of wood-based bioenergy.” The bioenergy industry reiterates its commitment to contribute towards this debate in a constructive manner, putting its data and know-how at the service of decision-makers and scientific community.
The study underlines that a swift and robust implementation of REDII sustainability criteria will effectively minimize negative impacts associated with the use of woody biomass for energy. For the implementation to be optimal, forest legislation and guidelines must be fit-for-purpose, properly enforced and monitored.