Does bioenergy increase CO2 emissions more than burning coal?
The Land & Climate Podcast
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Are You Surprised That Global Buyer Energy Use Is Growing Yet?
The EU has a loophole that allows power plants to ignore completely the CO2 resulting from burning wood. This is a loophole, and it needs to be closed, but so far the EU and the UK have not been willing to do that. And so it appears that emissions of carbon dioxide in the UK have fallen, even though the emissions from burning those pellets have increased above what they were before.
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