In eastern Borneo, an APRIL-linked company is reported to have cut at least 35,000 hectares of rainforest, converting it to acacia and eucalyptus plantations and expanding further. The conversion also...

In OECD countries, nearly 50% of renewable energy is derived from crops and forests. Carbon accounting loopholes and policy incentives continue to drive expansion of the biomass industry. Under the...

Indonesia is accelerating the energy transition to cut carbon emissions, strengthen energy security, and reduce dependence on fossil fuels, aiming to achieve Net Zero Emissions (NZE) by 2060. A key...

Gorontalo Province, located in the Wallacea biodiversity hotspot on the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia, is increasingly becoming a centre of industrial woody biomass production. Driven by domestic energy policies and...

Indonesia is one of the world’s mega biodiversity hotspots, with tropical forests that serve as habitats for thousands of endemic species and as vital ecosystem buffers. In addition to maintaining...

EPN’s Biomass Action Network has sent a letter to the UN outlining the negative impacts of technologies linked to large-scale biomass energy, including: Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS), biomass co-firing,...