Playing with Fire: Europe's bioenergy future

Europe is increasingly relying on bioenergy to meet its renewable energy targets - with negative consequences for air quality, forests in Europe and abroad, Europe's wood industry and the climate.

French subtitles are available for this film.

This film was made with support from the EU and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The contents of the film are the sole responsibility of Fern and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the funders.

[playerformerlyknownasmousecop]

It's a shame that this video only has 3400 views. Thank you so much for spreading this information.

[leovanlierop]

At 7:26, in the end the result is more co2 emissions, that's exactly not the reason why we are stimulating renewable energy!

[richardszekeres]

We need to stop the renewable vs fossil fuel discussion.
It should be low carbon vs high carbon discussion.
The solution is wind, solar, hydro, geothermal and nuclear.
We need much more nuclear instead of biomass, biofuel and biogas.

[bencrawshaw]

If more people owned an arga and log fires etc this would be more efficient because there wouldn't be such a need to generate electricity aswell. Storing logs and coal for use in the extreme conditions is far more efficient.

[bencrawshaw]

Just another reason to get out of the EU.

[bencrawshaw]

We would be better off going back to coal for our heat and electrical generation. First work out how much coal we have left and work out how much co2 would be released from burning it. Then work out how many trees we would have to plant to offset emissions in a given time frame. Simple .