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EU nations set to wipe out forests and not account for emissions

By Paul Homewood From the New Scientist: By Fred Pearce It looks like greenwash. European nations publicly keen to boost their climate credentials by switching to “green” biomass are accused of working behind the scenes to expunge their carbon emissions from burning wood in power stations from national emissions statistics. “If we don’t measure emissions when trees are cut, we won’t measure them at all,” says Hannah Mowat of FERN , a European NGO working to save the continent’s forests, who has followed the EU negotiations on the issue.

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