Article 638ZY Burning forests for energy isn't 'renewable' – now the EU must admit it | Greta Thunberg and others

Burning forests for energy isn't 'renewable' – now the EU must admit it | Greta Thunberg and others

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Greta Thunberg and others
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The EU's classification of wood fuels is accelerating the climate crisis. Next week, a key vote can change that

Next week the future of many of the world's forests will be decided when members of the European parliament vote on a revised EU renewable energy directive. If the parliament fails to change the EU's discredited and harmful renewables policy, European citizens' tax money will continue to pay for forests around the globe to literally go up in smoke every day.

Europe's directly elected representatives now have to choose: they can either save the EU's climate targets" with their legislative loopholes or they can begin saving our climate, because right now, that is not what EU targets are working towards.

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