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Copenhagen is using biomass from monoculture plantations in Brazil to become “carbon neutral”: Yet another false solution to the climate crisis

Posted on 13 March 20201 April 2020

By Chris Lang Copenhagen plans to be the world’s first carbon neutral capital city by 2025. One of the city’s targets is to produce electricity from wind and “sustainable biomass”. Two weeks ago the ship IDC Pearl arrived at the Amager BIO4 power plant in Copenhagen carrying more than 32,000 tons of wood chips from…

How did DLH, a company trading illegal timber from Liberia, get Forest Stewardship Council certification?

Posted on 17 February 201512 March 2015

Last week, the Forest Stewardship Council announced that it was kicking out Danish timber giant Dalhoff Larsen and Horneman (DLH). FSC did so after investigations by Global Witness revealed that DLH had traded illegal timber from Liberia.