Posts tagged "biomass"
“EU policies are boosting renewable energy sources and supporting biomass as a substitute of fossil fuel. While the move towards a decarbonised economy is laudable, an unintended side effect is that it’s becoming more profitable to sell wood for energy than for construction or furniture making. Many questions remained unanswered: How will subsidies for biomass affect the market for wood, and ultimately the environment? What effect will this have on the European wood industry, jobs and government revenues?”
