Media Release - Environmental Paper Network

EPN and Leading Experts Launch SolvingPackaging.org to Accelerate the Shift to Sustainable Packaging

Asheville, NC – The Environmental Paper Network-North America launched SolvingPackaging.org today to accelerate the solutions to the packaging crisis. SolvingPackaging.org brings together the expertise of leading conservation, zero waste and public health organizations, with the inspiration of sustainable packaging success stories and cutting-edge business innovations. It offers case studies, guidance, and other resources for companies, […]

Paper giant APP evades voluntary forest protection pledges, binding safeguards by banks and buyers needed

Jakarta/Berlin, 3 December 2020 – New evidence indicates that buyers and banks’ ineffective due diligence systems have allowed Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a global market paper supplier, to ignore its own forest conservation and human rights pledges, with the result that conflicts and violence continue unabated in the Indonesian regions where the company produces and […]

New evidence of profit shifting in Indonesia’s pulp sector

Jakarta, Indonesia, 3 November 2020 – A coalition of 25 civil society groups published evidence (1) of pulp industry’s practices of profit shifting in order to reduce corporate tax bills (2). The organisations called on the Government of Indonesia to crack down on profit shifting, a practice that costs Indonesia at least US$15.6 billion in […]

APRIL’s Links with Supplier in Borneo Undercut “No Deforestation” Pledge

Today a coalition of civil society organisations published a report about deforestation and peatlands degradation on the rainforest-rich island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Based on analysis using satellite imagery, the report documents significant deforestation, including clearance of forests on peatlands, in the concession area of PT Adindo Hutani Lestari (Adindo), one of global pulp […]

APRIL Group Keeps Destroying Peatlands and Natural Rainforests Amid Covid-19

Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Limited (APRIL) is Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper producer, and one of the world’s largest producers of rayon, a textile widely used by the fashion industry. After a decade of business expansion at the cost of Indonesian rainforests and of increasing boycott campaigns, in 2015, APRIL committed to stop […]

Civil society denounces Indonesia’s government siding with companies threatening Indigenous Peoples, endangered species and the environment

Jakarta, 4 June 2020 – The National Coalition to Preserve Natural Resources (GN-PSDA) has called on the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry to stop ignoring the environmental and criminal destruction caused by Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), one of the world’s largest paper producers. (1) The Ministry chose APP as a sponsor of “Indonesia […]

UPM: Pulp and Bioenergy Company’s Claim of Green Leadership Fails Fact Check

Berlin, 24 March 2020 – A discussion document released by the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) unveils the social and environmental risks associated with the Finnish company UPM-Kymmene and its operations in Uruguay, and highlights the importance of strong social and environmental risk management policies and close scrutiny of individual investments. UPM is one of […]

Global Finance Sector Failing to Apply Conservation Criteria to Pulp and Paper Funding

*** The Environmental Paper Network and our 156 member organisations want to acknowledge the extraordinary circumstances of this moment, given the terrible impacts of COVID-19 for people around the world. The urgent need to respond to the pandemic and its impacts is rightly taking priority. However, climate change and deforestation remain existential threats, they make […]

Newly Published Investigative Research Reveals Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) Involved in Hundreds of Conflicts with Local Communities in Indonesia

San Francisco, CA – New research conducted by a coalition of Indonesian organisations and the Environmental Paper Network has found that the second-largest Indonesian paper company Asia Pacific Resources International Limited (APRIL) is involved in hundreds of conflicts with communities across the Indonesian islands of Sumatra and Borneo. Conflict Plantations: Chapter 2 delivers research results showing that in […]