Sustainability
22nd January 2021
What is a biomass wood pellet?
Biomass is organic matter that can be used to generate energy. It can include wood, plant materials and even animal dung, used to fuel fires for warmth and cooking.
Sustainability
Drax Group's environmental, social and governance (ESG) management and performance data
- Approach
- The Biomass Carbon Calculator
- Carbon Emissions
- Catchment Area Analyses
- Environmental impact
- Ethics and Integrity
- ForestScope
- Health, Safety and Wellbeing
- Independent Advisory Board on Sustainable Biomass
- People and Culture
- Positive Social Impact
- Sourcing Sustainable Biomass
- Towards Carbon Negative
- Reports and factsheets
Sustainability
17th December 2020
What is renewable energy?
Renewable energy is produced from a resource that is infinite or can be replenished on a human timescale, such as the sun, wind, water or sustainably managed forests.
Sustainability
6th December 2020
The US South’s biomass sourcing areas analysed
Five catchment area analyses of wood pellet mills in our sustainable biomass supply chain show robust evidence of healthy forests.
Sustainability
25th November 2020
Burns Lake and Houston pellet plant catchment area analysis
Biomass has had a critical role in helping local communities and the forest industry respond to natural disasters, in this primarily State owned and managed, stable forest area in Canada. The Drax Forestry team assesses the evidence.
Sustainability
17th November 2020
Find out about sustainable forest biomass
Discover our wood pellet supply chain via ForestScope.info
Sustainability
16th October 2020
How to make batteries more sustainable
Recycling, repurposing and reimagining batteries
Sustainability
13th October 2020
Georgia Mill Cluster catchment area analysis
An extensively forested, active, and finely balanced landscape with a substantial resource and dynamic forest industry. The Drax Forestry team assesses the evidence.
Sustainability
18th September 2020
What is carbon dioxide?
Everything you need to know about the climate changing greenhouse gas
Sustainability
21st August 2020
What are negative emissions?
Everything you need to know about removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
Sustainability
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