US forests

Ascertaining the Trajectory of Wood-Based Bioenergy Development in the United States Based on Current Economic, Social, and Environmental Constructs [2019]

IEA Bioenergy - Assessing the wood sourcing practices of the U.S. industrial wood pellet industry supplying European energy demand [June 2020]

Bioenergy at the centre of EU renewable energy policy [January 2018 letter signed by 63 scientists via EURACTIV]

Bioenergy Europe Statistical Report (2020)

Bioenergy Europe Statistical Report (2020)

Biomass sustainability factsheet

Biomass UK Resource Centre

Biomass UK – Resource Centre

Foresters in working forest, Mississippi

Catchment Area Analysis of Forest Management and Market Trends: Amite BioEnergy [August 2019]

British Columbia, near Barriere, North Thompson River, aspen trees, dead pine trees behind infected with pine bark beetle (aka mountain pine beetle)

Catchment Area Analysis of Forest Management and Market Trends: Burns Lake and Houston [November 2020]

Catchment Area Analysis of Forest Management and Market Trends: Enviva Cottondale pellet plant [August 2021]

View from Suur Munamagi over forest landscape in South Estonia.

Catchment Area Analysis of Forest Management and Market Trends: Estonia [February 2020]

Forest in LaSalle catchment area

Catchment Area Analysis of Forest Management and Market Trends: Georgia Mill Cluster [September 2020]

LaSalle Bioenergy Pellet Plant

Catchment Area Analysis of Forest Management and Market Trends: LaSalle BioEnergy [June 2020]

Panorama view of Latvian forest and road from above

Catchment Area Analysis of Forest Management and Market Trends: Latvia [May 2020]

Working forest in southern Arkansas within the Morehouse catchment area

Catchment Area Analysis of Forest Management and Market Trends: Morehouse BioEnergy [August 2019]

Working Forests US South

Catchment Area Analysis of Forest Management and Market Trends: The US South’s biomass sourcing areas analysed [December 2020]

Ecometrica - Biomass Carbon Accounting [October 2021]

LaSalle forest

Expansion of US wood pellet industry points to positive trends but the need for continued monitoring [2020]

FAO Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) - Collection of examples: Positive Relationships between Sustainable Wood Energy and Forest Landscape Restoration [June 2020]

US forests canopy map

Forest Atlas of the United States

Forest Carbon 201: Land Use Effects of Wood Product Markets [March 2021]

Forest Research - Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU

Forest Research - Carbon impacts of biomass consumed in the EU [2018]

Forest Research - Forestry Statistics and Forestry Facts & Figures [2019]

Forest Research - Forestry Statistics and Forestry Facts & Figures [2019]

ForestProud community research

ForestProud community research

Home page of ForestScope.info website

ForestScope: Discover the steps we take to ensure our wood pellet supply chain is better for our forests, our planet and our future

Future Forests + Jobs

Future Forests + Jobs

Giving up coal – Tony Juniper questions if using biomass can be the right thing to do for forests and climate change [December 2017]

Global Forest Resources Assessment 2020

Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2018

Greenhouse gas emissions and removals from forest land, woodlands, and urban trees in the United States, 1990-2018

Healthy Forest Landscapes

Healthy Forest Landscapes [2020]

Historical Perspective on the Relationship between Demand and Forest Productivity in the US South [Forest2Market, July 2017]

IEA Bioenergy - Campaigns questioning the use of woody biomass for energy are missing key facts [February 2021]

IEA Bioenergy Logo

IEA Bioenergy - The Use of Biomass for Climate Change Mitigation Dispelling Some Misconceptions [August 2020]

Minimalist tree top with light blue sky background

IEA Bioenergy - The use of forest biomass for climate change mitigation [December 2019]

Forest and biomass residues at Drax's LaSalle BioEnergy wood pellet plant in Louisiana

Independent Advisory Board on Sustainable Biomass

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - 2019 Refinement to the 2006 IPCC Guidelines for National Greenhouse Gas Inventories: Volume 2, Energy

IOP Science - Quantifying forest growth uncertainty on carbon payback times in a simple biomass carbon model [March 2020]

Model: What increased woody biomass use looks like for the global forest ecosystem [March 2020]

Pöyry - Assessment of the benefits of sustainable forest management [November 2018]

REA Bioenergy Strategy

REA Bioenergy Strategy [2019]

front cover of 'Responsible sourcing' PDF

Responsible Sourcing [October 2019]

Science Advances - Forests: Carbon sequestration, biomass energy, or both?

Science Advances - Forests: Carbon sequestration, biomass energy, or both? [2020]

Science Fundamentals of Forest Biomass Carbon Accounting [October 2019 letter signed by 100 scientists via NAUFRP - National Association of University Forest Programs]

The Southern Working Forest - A Guide to Sustainable Management

Supergen Bioenergy Hub - How UK plantations can help mitigate the climate crisis [March 2020]

The Forest Lifecycle

UPM Forest Life

US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) – Assessing Carbon Impacts of Woody Biomass

USIPA FAQs

US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) – Frequently Asked Questions

US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) – Positive Carbon Studies

US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) – Rebuttal to Negative Carbon Studies

Wood Supply Market Trends in the US South

US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) – Research

US Industrial Pellet Association (USIPA) – The Facts About Biomass

USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory & Analysis One-Click Factsheet

USDA Forest Service Forest Inventory & Analysis One-Click Factsheet

What are the impacts of the wood pellet industry on biodiversity in Southeastern USA? A systematic evidence synthesis [November 2020]

World Bioenergy Association (WBA) - Resources