March 25, 2022
Picture: A Sappi logging site and pine plantation near Ngodwana, South Africa. EPN’s Forests, Climate and Biomass working group have published a new case study, undertaken by our South Africa based member group GeaSphere. The case study looks into the biomass power station built by Ngodwana Pulp and Paper mill and the impacts of burning […]
Read MoreMarch 21, 2022
by Sergio Baffoni I first met Lafcadio by hearsay. In Papua New Guinea, after having left years before, he was a legend among the clans’ people. Yet, when I finally met him in person, it was a great discovery. And it was immediately an intense friendship, because it was very easy to be friends with […]
Read MoreMarch 21, 2022
Bielefeld, Germany, 21 March 2022 – On the International Day of Forests, the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) is sounding the alarm about the growing threats to the world’s forests, posed by the biomass energy and pulp & paper industries. Governments should become aware that the industries’ current levels of forest exploitation and growing volumes of […]
Read MoreMarch 15, 2022
Year long Investigation Reveals Deforestation Throughout Pulp & Paper Supply Chain Merauke, Papua, Indonesia (15 March, 2022) — A new investigation released today by Environmental Paper Network (EPN), Mighty Earth, Pusaka, Solutions for Our Climate (SFOC), Korean Federation for Environmental Movement (KFEM) and Advocates for Public Interest Law (APIL) details the devastation of pristine forests […]
Read MoreMarch 7, 2022
Vladimir Putin’s military invasion of Ukraine has brought a terrible toll of deaths and injuries across borders. These are horrible days for the people of Ukraine, for the civilians in Russia and Belarus, for all those caught in this conflict and for Europe, which faces its biggest crisis in many years. We have all seen […]
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2022
Image: Bois Rouge plant; All rights reserved – Albioma Ce blog est aussi disponible en Français The French energy company Albioma is in the process of converting or replacing at least four coal power plants in French Overseas Territories to biomass. The company’s website implies that it relies on sugarcane, but in reality it increasingly […]
Read MoreFebruary 2, 2022
Blog post by Peg Putt, Co-coordinator of the Forests, Climate and Biomass Energy Working Group Beyond Burning, the video from Stand.earth and Emma Thompson, is timely in calling out forest biomass burning as a false solution to climate change. A clamour of false solutions pushed by vested interests followed the Climate COP 26, held in […]
Read MoreJanuary 27, 2022
Portugal to decide on future of Pego power station by late February. The Pego power station in Portugal represents a high risk for investors and financiers, according to a “Dodgy Deal” briefing [1] published today by five environmental groups [2], who urged funders to steer clear of financing the proposed conversion from burning coal to […]
Read MoreJanuary 20, 2022
HaKI has been working very closely with the community, including indigenous people, to ensure their rights are respected. Peter Gerhardt from EPN reached out to Aidil Fitri from the Hutan Kita Institute – HaKI. What motivated you to become an environmentalist? I was born in a very small village in South Sumatra surrounded by healthy forests […]
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