Sunak bombarded as furious scientists lash out over ‘devastating’ UK energy source

But the group of 600 scientists are concerned that the talks may fall flat unless businesses stop destroying forests for bioenergy. It comes after the industry received a major boost in recent years as the UK scrambles to replace coal, the most polluting fossil fuel.

This also comes after the Climate Change Committee (CCC), which advises the Government on climate, called for bioenergy to have a limited role in Britain. Last year, the energy source accounted for nearly 13 percent of the country’s electricity. 

In the CCC’s report to Parliament in July 2021, it said that Britain needed to deliver a Biomass Strategy that is “aligned to the UK’s path to Net Zero, and which reflects recommendations on governance, monitoring and best-use from the Committee’s 2018 Biomass report and 2020 Land Use report.”

The 2018 report said that while the UK should aim to increase the volume of carbon stored in our forests and land, biomass should still be used but only in the most effective way. It also warned that rules governing the supply of sustainable sources of biomass for energy must be improved.

Prof Antonelli said: “We have to do everything we can to reverse the loss of biodiversity worldwide…The climate and biodiversity crises are strongly intertwined, and we need to find solutions for both of them.”

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Article source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1705079/sunak-bioenergy-biomass-drax-climate-change-biodiversity