Chatham House biomass report: dancing on a pinhead!

Peter Wilson FICFor

Why is one of the oldest uses of wood quite so controversial? How is it that European regulators regard using woody biomass for industrial-scale heat and power generation as ‘carbon neutral’ for purposes of carbon accounting but that some NGOs claim it is ‘dirtier than coal’ or poses an existential threat to the World’s forests? […]

ICF is Delighted to Announce its New President

Leading on from a successful first day of the Trees, People and the Built Environment 3 (TPBE3) conference (which it hosts), the Institute of Chartered Foresters announced its new President following its Annual General Meeting at University of Birmingham, on the evening of the 5th April 2017. During the meeting David Edwards FICFor was elected as the successor to David Henderson-Howat FICFor, who […]