As world leaders pledge more action on climate change, one so-called solution—burning trees for electricity—could undermine progress.
Europe is betting big on wood to replace coal, but the industry is taking heat for stoking carbon emissions and air pollution.
Drax received more than £800m in subsidies last year for burning woody biomass at its Selby plant, but the UK's classing of biomass as renewable is contentious.
Researchers from MIT Sloan School of Management have found that wood pellets burned in European and UK power plants actually emit more CO2 per kilowatt hour than that generated by coal.
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