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Don’t Destroy Forests for Firewood!
7 years ago
Don’t increase the rate of logging in Europe by classifying wood as a low-carbon energy source.
Logging could increase throughout the European Union in light of newly released energy plans including a proposal that would reclassify wood as a low-carbon energy source. This is despite warnings from hundreds of experts who say that burning wood fuel would increase atmospheric carbon and could put thousands of species at risk. Demand that European countries protect their remaining forests and seek other sources of energy that are truly sustainable.
This proposal, if approved, would allow countries to claim that they are using renewable energy even as they deliberately cut down vast areas of woodland to burn for fuel. While this may help certain nations appear to meet their international climate commitments, such as the Paris Agreement, in reality the environmental devastation would be catastrophic. Deforestation in and of itself releases huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, due to the fact that trees help to absorb greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
We must oppose this plan and protect healthy forests across Europe. There are ways to generate energy more sustainably without endangering entire ecosystems or contributing further to runaway global warming. Sign this petition to demand that the European Union retract this flawed proposal and seek truly environmentally friendly forms of energy to meet its climate goals.
Sign the petition!
https://forcechange.com/513640/dont.....ewable-energy/
Logging could increase throughout the European Union in light of newly released energy plans including a proposal that would reclassify wood as a low-carbon energy source. This is despite warnings from hundreds of experts who say that burning wood fuel would increase atmospheric carbon and could put thousands of species at risk. Demand that European countries protect their remaining forests and seek other sources of energy that are truly sustainable.
This proposal, if approved, would allow countries to claim that they are using renewable energy even as they deliberately cut down vast areas of woodland to burn for fuel. While this may help certain nations appear to meet their international climate commitments, such as the Paris Agreement, in reality the environmental devastation would be catastrophic. Deforestation in and of itself releases huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, due to the fact that trees help to absorb greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
We must oppose this plan and protect healthy forests across Europe. There are ways to generate energy more sustainably without endangering entire ecosystems or contributing further to runaway global warming. Sign this petition to demand that the European Union retract this flawed proposal and seek truly environmentally friendly forms of energy to meet its climate goals.
Sign the petition!
https://forcechange.com/513640/dont.....ewable-energy/
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