Timber: Carbon Emissions

(asked on 1st March 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, whether he has made an assessment of the implications for his policies of the reports from (a) the European Academies' Science Advisory Council, (b) the Ember think tank and (c) Chatham House which suggest that burning wood pellets risks making climate change worse.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 9th March 2022

The Government only supports sustainable biomass and generators only receive subsidies for biomass that comply with strict sustainability criteria.

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