Country: United Kingdom
Whitehead CDR Review: Missed Opportunities and Bad Science, But Notably Critical of Drax
The Whitehead report on CDR is bad news for Drax, recommending the UK not import wood pellets for so-called greenhouse gas "removals." But the report gives a bad steer by failing to recognise that burning trees was never going to pull CO2 from the atmosphere in the first place.
Europe
United Kingdom
Challenging Drax’s Greenwashing, UK
Drax makes profoundly misleading claims about forest and climate benefits of burning trees for energy. We are challenging Drax’s greenwashing under the OECD guidelines for responsible business conduct.View Case
United Kingdom
Biomass Strategy Challenge, UK
The Lifescape Project took the UK government to court over ‘irrational’ plans to spend billions on new technology that relies on logging and burning trees for energy, then storing the carbon pollution belowground. The case alleges the government is fundamentally misrepresenting the capabilities and dangers of the technology, known as biomass energy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS).View Case