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French company’s greenwashing unveiled: converted energy plants depend on imported forest wood, not sugarcane

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 […]

Got Accountability? The USDA’s Paper and Packaging Commodity Checkoff Program Continues to Operate in Secrecy

The need to ensure transparency and oversight for government sponsored commodity marketing programs: The Opportunities for Fairness in Farming Act is a start. By Environmental Paper Network – North America (EPN-NA) Cue the snappy catch phrases and animated characters designed to convince you that you need and love a product. You may not know what […]

Activists protest first eucalyptus shipment from Mozambique to Portugal and ask World Bank to stop funding ‘afforestation’/operating company

Conversion of forests and land to plantations doesn’t solve climate change The first delivery of eucalyptus trees to Aveiro in Portugal from the port of Beira in Mozambique has been received with strong criticism by Mozambican and Portuguese groups and two international coalitions. The wood is from eucalyptus plantations operated by Portucel Moçambique, a subsidiary of The […]

Keep bioenergy out of the Energy Charter Treaty, say 50+ groups

Including bioenergy within the Energy Charter Treaty would make harmful treaty even worse Brussels/Amsterdam/London – 6 July, 2021 – 58 civil society organisations have asked signatories of the Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) in a statement to withdraw from the treaty rather than allow it to be broadened to include bioenergy. The ECT, an international investment treaty for cross-border […]

It’s Time for the U.S. Paper and Packaging Board to Tell the Whole Story

Applauding the growing call for more transparency in US commodity checkoff programs Tyson Miller, Forests Campaign Director, Stand.earth Anne Pernick, Reducing Consumption Coordinator, Environmental Paper Network Beth Porter, Climate Campaigns Director, Green America The U.S. Paper and Packaging Board (P+PB), like the National Pork Board and the American Egg Board, is one of the federal […]

New maps launched to track the expansion of the biomass industry

The Environmental Paper Network’s Working Group on Forests, Climate and Biomass has today launched new tools to track and monitor the expanding biomass energy and pellet industries. The two maps published make publicly available for the first time an extensive global database of existing and planned energy plants running on woody biomass, and of mills […]

Featured Member: Markets For Change

Creating Cup Consciousness Markets for Change is one of EPN’s Australian member organisations. Based in Tasmania, it is a group of campaigners who have taken the fight to protect Australian and other forests directly to the companies that drive and profit from their destruction. Market-focused campaigning is an exciting alternative to traditional campaign efforts to […]

Jikalahari and Wetlands International host Jakarta launch of EPN report “Too Much Hot Air” detailing the failure of the Indonesian paper industry to reform its peatland management

On August 10, Jikalahari (Riau Forest Rescue Network) are launching a report from the Environmental Paper Network (EPN) titled ‘Too Much Hot Air’. This event is also supported by Wetlands International. Read the report in English or in Bahasa Indonesian. The report focuses on the current failure of the pulp and paper industry in Indonesia to reform its peatland […]

In the Red – Bank Policies fail to ensure they will avoid irresponsible investment in the paper industry

A new assessment by the EPN of bank policies has been completed and published here: http://www.environmentalpaper.eu/in-the-red/ The assessment studied how ready the financial sector is to manage the environmental and social risks of financial involvement with the pulp and paper industry. From 2016 to 2017 we carried out a benchmark assessment of the pulp and […]