Europe’s Dark Winter - How will people and forests survive the energy crisis?

Most of the of forests, their health and the climate, because growth in woody biomass use the past decade wood burning remains the cheapest source of has been driven by the energy sector (heat and heat and living in cold houses is also a major electricity). [...] Despite the fact that climate for energy has been causing to forests and the and right-to-energy campaigners have been climate, and the enormous profits that energy calling for change for decades, 75% of the EU’s producing companies are generating in the building stock is deemed inefficient, leading to current energy prices crisis. [...] The country’s government and state forest agency have The same story – of wood replacing gas as the relaxed guidelines to make it easier for the energy crisis deepens – is also playing out in public to collect firewood. [...] Public electricity and heat is now more or less equal to wood burning in the The RED trilogues – the final negotiations residential sector, which does not benefit from between the Parliament, the Commission and RED incentives (except in some countries for the Council of the EU before the legislation’s the purchase of wood burning appliances). [...] Hungary has the highest petition, and the energy price in the EU per relative household Hungarian Green income, and the fair way of supporting families Party submitted would be to provide support based on the an appeal to the household income.