Forest Risk Commodity Regulations Debate
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Baroness Ritchie of Downpatrick
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Forest Risk Commodity Regulations
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Lord Benyon (Con)
Biomass is a perfectly legitimate renewable energy source if the wood that is being used is a renewable and sustainable harvest. My noble friend and the noble Baroness are absolutely right that if the wrong sort of timber is used and being shipped to this country at huge carbon cost, taxpayers, shareholders and investors need to know the precise and genuine cost to our net zero commitments that that poses.
