A flurry of announcements and pledges marked the first several days of the UN climate summit in Dubai. Notably, a call to triple renewable energy expansion by 2030 — signed by over 100 countries, including Canada — is being pushed by some world leaders to be a binding goal in the final agreement. While this commitment represents ambition for some, people from around the world attending COP28 with an eye to human rights and forest destruction (myself included) are warning about a powerful impostor: forest biomass. With devastating impacts on communities, biodiversity and the global climate, the growing forest biomass industry could turn clean energy dreams into nightmarish destruction. …Countries around the world — including Canada, the United States, the U.K., Japan and members of the European Union — are promoting burning wood pellets made from forest biomass as a “clean” energy solution. However, forest biomass is anything but a safe alternative to fossil fuels.