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France is seeking a waiver to EU bioenergy rules that would allow the forest-covered territory of French Guiana to receive subsidies to produce biofuels for the space industry.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wedged between Brazil and Suriname, the overseas department has little in common with mainland France bar the name. The Amazon rainforest covers more than 90% of the territory.<\/p>\n

However, French Guiana is critical to Europe\u2019s soft power. It is home to the continent\u2019s spaceport where the European Space Agency launches its satellites.<\/p>\n

Now, the French government is seeking exemptions from proposed EU rules that would restrict the use of bioenergy on the territory. The loophole would allow French Guiana to receive public financing to produce biofuels \u201cespecially for the space sector\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Local lawmakers argue the dispensation is necessary to protect French Guiana\u2019s forestry sector and accelerate its energy transition. But campaigners have warned the exemption risks setting an incentive for increased logging in Europe\u2019s corner of the Amazon forest.<\/p>\n

\u201cThousands of hectares of Amazon forest could be cleared to be replaced with monocultures designed to produce energy\u2026 with the help of public financing,\u201d Marine Calmet, a lawyer specialised in environmental law at NGOs Maiouri Nature Guyane and Wild Legal, told Climate Home News<\/p>\n

Rules for biofuels<\/h3>\n

The EU considers burning wood a renewable energy and subsidises its production. Bioenergy accounts for almost 60%<\/a> of the EU\u2019s renewable energy mix. But a mounting body of evidence<\/a> is showing that burning wood emits more carbon dioxide than coal per unit of energy \u2013 worsening climate change.<\/p>\n

Regrown trees may eventually remove the emitted carbon from the atmosphere but the process could take decades to a century<\/a> \u2013 time which scientists say the world doesn\u2019t have to prevent the worst impacts of global heating. To start addressing the issue, the EU is negotiating<\/a> stricter sustainability criteria for producing and using bioenergy.<\/p>\n

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Draft legislation adopted<\/a> by the EU parliament proposed to exclude “primary woody biomass” \u2013 untransformed wood such as whole trees, logs and stumps \u2013 from receiving renewable energy subsidies, with limited exceptions. It also caps the amount that can count as renewable energy to current use.<\/p>\n

Biomass from agricultural crops can\u2019t be considered renewable if they are grown on land of great biodiversity value or replacing primary and ancient forests.<\/p>\n

But French lawmakers introduced an exemption for \u201can outermost region where forests cover at least 90% of the territory\u201d. It would allow biomass fuels and biofuels \u201cespecially used in the space sector\u201d and regardless of their origin to receive public financing if they incentivise the transition away from fossil fuels.<\/p>\n

Analysts told Climate Home French Guiana is the only known EU region where this could apply.<\/p>\n

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The Guiana Space Center is surrounded by 90% of forest covered territory in the Amazon. (Photo: CNES\/ESA\/Arianespace\/Optique Video CSG\/P Baudon<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

Biofuels in the rainforest<\/h3>\n

The loophole would allow France to count woody bioenergy production in French Guiana towards its own renewable energy target \u2013 despite a cap in the rest of the continent. In 2020, France was the only EU member state to fail to achieve<\/a> its renewable energy target.<\/p>\n

Authorities in French Guiana argue<\/a> the EU\u2019s proposed rules threatened the territory\u2019s goal to move away from fossil fuels, including at the spaceport<\/a>, which consumes 18% of the electricity produced locally.<\/p>\n

Two biomass plants, totalling 9MW, are being built<\/a> to produce electricity and cooling for operations at the space station. By 2030, French Guiana wants 25% of its electricity mix to come from woody biomass.<\/p>\n

Thibault Lechat-Vega, a local official responsible for European affairs, told Climate Home that halting subsidies to the sector would require the territory to import wood pellets from Canada and China \u201cat a catastrophic carbon cost\u201d.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere is clearly no question of cutting the forest to produce biofuels but to support research to green the European space launcher,\u201d he said, adding that the logging sector in French Guiana followed some of the world\u2019s strictest sustainability criteria.<\/p>\n

Waste from forest clearance to give way to agriculture and to build homes and infrastructure would be used, he explained.<\/p>\n

But Calmet said these assurances were insufficient. \u201cElected officials are providing no guarantees about the origins of the biomass. On the contrary, they want to contravene all legal obligations designed to protect primary and old forests, and ecosystems with high biodiversity value,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Cleaner rockets<\/h3>\n

While rocket launches account for a tiny fraction<\/a> of the space industry\u2019s emissions, a number of companies are developing greener propellants, including using biofuels<\/a>. In French Guiana, researchers are working to scale up biofuels production from micro algae.<\/a><\/p>\n

Andreas Sch\u00fctz, a chemical propellant expert at the German Aerospace Center (DLR), told Climate Home that producing rocket fuels from wood, using a process known as gasification, is feasible.<\/p>\n

But Mike Mason, an engineer who researched biomass at Oxford University, said the process was \u201cvery expensive\u201d and that burning wood to produce electricity remains inefficient.<\/p>\n

\u201cWood is a renewable resource but burning it has a global warming impact,\u201d said Mason, warning of the risk of creating a precedent for climate-damaging activities in the Amazon.<\/p>\n

Negotiations on the draft rules are ongoing. Sources close to the discussions told Climate Home that while the EU Council showed willing to accommodate France\u2019s request, the Commission was concerned about the biodiversity impacts.<\/p>\n

France recently closed a consultation<\/a> on requesting the waiver. 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