When the EU wastes the climate: the EU policy of subsidising energy from burning waste is worsening the climate
This report analyses the contradictions of EU (European Union) policy when promoting and funding a false renewable energy - that is, the energy from burning waste. A big part of the energy produced by European incinerators is considered to be renewable energy, which allows them to receive considerable rate premiums and subsidies. This has the effect of a false green subsidy to burn waste that could be recycled or composted. In reality these subsidies end up creating the opposite of the intended effect: more greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the short term, less sustainability and less incentive to green the economy.