17.03.2015 - Europe Carbon Trade Would Gain Extra $1.1 Billion From Biomass
European carbon trading will probably bring in as much as an extra 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) a year to combat climate change if wood-burning power stations are included in the system for limiting greenhouse-gas emissions. The assumption that burning wood doesn’t mean more carbon because greenhouse gases are sucked up by growing trees ignores the effect of changes in land use, emissions from transporting the so-called biomass and unsustainable operations, said a report from the Transport & Environment campaign group, BirdLife Europe and the European Environmental Bureau...............................................Full Article: Source
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