News Headline
500+ experts call on world’s nations to not burn forests to make energy
Source
Mongabay (India)
Publication Date
2021-02-15
More than 500 scientists and economists implored world leaders last week to stop treating as emissions-free the burning of wood from forests to make energy and heat, and to end subsidies now driving the explosive demand for wood pellets. Both actions, they write, are causing escalating deforestation in the Southeast US, Western Canada and Eastern Europe.