A new film expressing a vision for the future of paper was launched by civil society today in advance of Paper World, the paper industry gathering in Frankfurt, Germany. The film argues that as a global society we need to look at this everyday material with new eyes, and transform the way we use it […]
Read MoreA new film produced by the European EPN and expressing a vision for the future of paper was launched today in advance of Paper World, a major gathering of the industry in Frankfurt, Germany. The film invites us all to look at this everyday material with new eyes, and transform the way we use it to […]
Read MoreToday is the one year anniversary of the announcement of a new Sustainable Forest Management Policy (SFMP) by Indonesia’s second largest pulp and paper company, Asia Pacific Resources International, LTD. (APRIL) APRIL is part of the Singapore based conglomerate known as Royal Golden Eagle group (RGE). The policy was criticized widely by international and Indonesian […]
Read MoreOne year ago the second largest Indonesian paper company APRIL published a “Sustainable Forest Management Policy”, to try to regain customers it had lost because of its unsustainable impacts on the environment, on local communities and on the global climate. But NGOs say the policy doesn’t address APRIL’s impacts, and has not even been properly […]
Read MoreOn-the-ground interviews with 17 affected Indonesian communities reveal policy implementation problems while hundreds of unresolved land conflicts remain [Originally posted at RAN.org] Nearly two years after Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) made groundbreaking commitments to transform its notoriously destructive business practices, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has partnered with one international and nine local Indonesian allies […]
Read MoreThe case against Indonesia’s largest forest destroyer, APRIL, grows stronger by the day. Indonesian NGOs have found even more evidence that the company and its suppliers are trashing rainforests and are about to put endangered orangutans at even greater risk. At the start of the year, APRIL announced a new sustainable forest management policy. But […]
Read MoreAPRIL is the second largest Indonesian pulp and paper company and its impacts on forests and local communities is devastating. The negative impacts of their logging to source fibre for paper include social conflicts, destruction of the habitat of rare species like Sumatran rhinos, elephants, tigers and orangutans, and damage to peatlands which causes huge […]
Read MoreFor immediate release November 19, 2014 Contact: Joshua Martin, Environmental Paper Network, 828-242-4238, joshua@environmentalpaper.org Asheville, NC – Environmental Paper Network Director Joshua Martin today issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of its proposed Accounting Framework for Biogenic CO2 Emissions and policy memorandum. “With today’s proposed framework, it appears that […]
Read MoreWhat is China’s impact on forests and communities, given that it is the world’s biggest paper consumer and the fastest-growing investor in the pulp and paper industry? Activists from Indonesia and from the Chinese Environmental Paper Network are working together to increase understanding of this question. To assist this learning process, we are organising an […]
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