{"id":88896,"date":"2021-06-01T07:35:12","date_gmt":"2021-06-01T05:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bio-based.eu\/?p=88896"},"modified":"2021-06-16T02:15:37","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T00:15:37","slug":"no-land-left-new-birdlife-report-hits-back-at-international-energy-agency-proposal-to-dedicate-more-of-worlds-cropland-to-bioenergy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/no-land-left-new-birdlife-report-hits-back-at-international-energy-agency-proposal-to-dedicate-more-of-worlds-cropland-to-bioenergy\/","title":{"rendered":"No land left \u2013 New BirdLife report hits back at International Energy Agency proposal to dedicate more of worlds cropland to bioenergy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A\u00a0new report<\/a>\u00a0by Birdlife Europe investigates the competing pressures on land\u00a0in light of\u00a0the climate and biodiversity\u00a0crises, and\u00a0presents crystal clear findings. Governments and industry must stop burning trees\u00a0and crops\u00a0for bioenergy, and instead urgently set aside land for nature. Bioenergy is a false climate solution that adds emissions to the atmosphere and wipes out wildlife habitats.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018Burn or Restore<\/a>\u2019 comes out one day before the International Energy Agency\u2019s (IEA) report \u201cNet Zero in 2050: A roadmap for the global energy sector<\/a>\u201d, which proposes to convert\u00a0more\u00a0of the world\u2019s cropland to bioenergy.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0BirdLife\u00a0report showcases how current land use is already unsustainable and why it is urgent to set aside land for nature now. We cannot afford to encourage false climate solutions and use up more land for producing biomass that ends being burned for energy. Not only is there no \u201cspare\u201d land available, but bioenergy adds emissions to the atmosphere, fuelling the climate crisis and wipes out wildlife habitats, accelerating the biodiversity crisis.<\/p>\n

The debate on how much land is \u201cavailable\u201d is often flawed as it is based on the question of what land assets can be sacrificed. More and more of the world\u2019s habitable land is taken up by agriculture, to feed a growing population.\u00a0The vast majority of\u00a0this land is in turn used to feed livestock. In recent times, renewable energy incentives have added new pressures on land,\u00a0in particular through\u00a0the large scale growing of bioenergy feedstocks.<\/p>\n

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Kenneth Richter, Bioenergy Consultant,\u00a0BirdLife\u00a0Europe:<\/h3>\n

\u201cThe IEAs proposal to convert\u00a0more\u00a0of the worlds\u2019 cropland to bioenergy is not just\u00a0insanity, but\u00a0will\u00a0actually put\u00a0people’s lives at risk \u2013 either through starvation\u00a0and land conflict\u00a0or through\u00a0ecological\u00a0degradation, if not both. At the same time, it would accelerate the climate crisis. The science is clear, we must be working towards reducing CO2<\/sub>, and\u00a0in this day and age, you would hope that\u00a0everybody knows that the best way of doing that is\u00a0to protect forests and other natural habitats \u2013 not burn them\u00a0for energy.<\/p>\n

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The\u00a0BirdLife\u00a0report \u2018Burn or Restore: Meeting competing demands for land in the best way for nature, the climate, and human needs\u201d<\/a> is\u00a0available\u00a0here<\/p>\n

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About BirdLife Europe<\/h3>\n

BirdLife Europe and Central Asia\u00a0is a partnership of 45\u00a0national conservation\u00a0organisations\u00a0and a leader in bird conservation. Our unique local to global approach enables us to deliver high impact and\u00a0long-term\u00a0conservation for the benefit of nature and people.\u00a0BirdLife\u00a0Europe and Central Asia is one of the six regional secretariats that compose\u00a0BirdLife\u00a0International. Based in Brussels, it supports the European and Central Asian Partnership and is present in 44\u00a0countries including all EU Member States. With more than 4100 staff in Europe, two million members and tens of thousands of skilled volunteers,\u00a0BirdLife\u00a0Europe\u00a0and Central Asia, together with its national partners, owns or manages more than 6000 nature sites\u00a0totalling\u00a0320,000 hectares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A\u00a0new report\u00a0by Birdlife Europe investigates the competing pressures on land\u00a0in light of\u00a0the climate and biodiversity\u00a0crises, and\u00a0presents crystal clear findings. Governments and industry must stop burning trees\u00a0and crops\u00a0for bioenergy, and instead urgently set aside land for nature. Bioenergy is a false climate solution that adds emissions to the atmosphere and wipes out wildlife habitats. \u2018Burn or […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[5838,5842,6406,18529],"supplier":[12791,967],"class_list":["post-88896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based","tag-bioeconomy","tag-biomass","tag-environment","tag-landuse","supplier-birdlife-europe-and-central-asia","supplier-international-energy-agency-iea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88896"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=88896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}