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Re:Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil ... by londons_explore on Saturday January 08, 2022 @07:11AM (#29850928)
Wood pellets are shipped across the ocean in large quantities because of a loophole in carbon accounting, allowing coal power stations to burn wood pellets across the EU, 'carbon free', as long as the wood came from outside the EU.
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Re:Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil ... by zeristor on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:30AM (#29851482)
Green washing.

this:

https://archive.fo/VwYJQ

from this:

https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/drax-green...

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Re:Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil ... by rob74 on Saturday January 08, 2022 @09:33AM (#29851988)
I would say wood pellets are a grey area, similar to nuclear power. On one side, if the pellets are produced from wood that can't be used for other purposes and from responsibly managed forests, they're better than burning fossil fuels. On the other side, if they are produced from cutting down virgin rainforests and are then shipped halfway around the world, that's definitely not good.
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Re:Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil ... by guerby on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:10AM (#29851323)
Interesting!

Do you have a reliable source for this?

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Re:Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil ... by adpcm on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:39AM (#29851554)
Wood pellets are counted as renewable. Creating something of loophole. Not sure what difference non-EU would make other than making tracking of regrowing trees more difficult.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/europ...

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Re:Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil ... by weberer on Saturday January 08, 2022 @12:39PM (#29854009)
I don't see how that's a loophole. It sounds reasonable to me.
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Re:Forty percent of the world’s shipping consists of fossil ... by londons_explore on Saturday January 08, 2022 @08:25AM (#29851441)
https://www.biofuelwatch.org.uk/axedrax-campaign/

(biased source, but nobody seems to disagree with their wood source claims)

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