- The three largest political groups in the European Parliament have backed proposals to end subsidies for biomass used in power plants and exclude primary wood burning from the EU’s renewable energy targets.
- A more divisive question for them is to define the types of biomass that can be counted as “renewable” under the EU’s renewable energy directive.
- Because if the definition of sustainable biomass is too broad, “it will lead to taking out more primary biomass from the forest than we think is acceptable”.
EU Parliament groups rally behind plans to end biomass subsidies
