This one goes out to the European Union:

Wood biomass is NOT “renewable energy,” “green,” or “carbon neutral.”

Stop chopping down American trees and pretending you’re saving the planet.

The EU spends BILLIONS annually to subsidize the burning of wood for energy — a process ultimately dirtier than coal.

Burning wood creates more carbon emissions than coal per unit of energy, thus undercutting the EU’s carbon-reduction targets in actuality, though reducing them on paper.

Burning woody biomass also levels forests that would curb climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide and storing it above and below ground, as long as the trees remain standing. Those standing forests also support significant biodiversity, which clearcut forests and replanted plantation monocultures don’t.

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