What are the risks with wood burning in Japan?

Alasdair talks to Roger Smith, Japan Director for Mighty Earth, about Japanese biomass imports and the risks of the country's coal power stations switching to wood-burning.

Further reading: 

• SMOKESCREEN: SUMITOMO’S “CARBON NEUTRAL” FAILURES 
• SUMITOMO CORPORATION’S DIRTY ENERGY TRADE: Biomass, Coal and Japan’s Energy Future
• Biomass cofiring loopholes put coal on open-ended life support in Asia, Mongabay
• As biomass burning surges in Japan and South Korea, where will Asia get its wood?, Mongabay
• Fossil Free Japan
• Biomass Info, a resource library  (Japanese) 

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