A coalition of 32 environmental organisations worldwide sent a letter to the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, asking it to divest from Drax Plc, owner of the world’s largest wood-burning power station in the UK, and to clarify its position on biomass energy. BlackRock is Drax’s joint third largest shareholder, holding a 5% stake in […]
Read MoreSocial organizations from Uruguay, Finland and other countries, have published a letter which questions UPM’s greenwashing campaign. The company presents itself as a leading global corporation in the fight against climate change, but the letter provides the results of 15 years of scientific research which show the impacts of monoculture tree plantations on grasslands: QUESTIONING […]
Read MoreKiu Hung International Holdings Limited has announced the decision of its Board of Directors that it will not proceed with the project. Of the many pulp and paper capacity expansions around the world, few were are as misguided and as threatening to native and intact forests as the Amazar Pulp and Saw Mill (APSM, also […]
Read MoreYesterday, at an event organized by EPN and its partners at the People’s Summit, in Santiago de Chile, people from different regions and countries denounced the impacts caused by plantations for the pulp and paper industry, and discussed their similarities. In Chile, the plantation industry made its great boom during the dictatorship of Pinochet, when […]
Read MoreOriginally published by Rivers without Boundaries Civil society attempts to prevent the worst environmental and social impacts from Chinese-owned pulp-mill development in Zabaikalsky province scored a new important tactical victory at Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The KHI toy-manufacturing company, which previously claimed that it wants to take over management of the “highly profitable Polaris Company” […]
Read MoreLast Friday, thousands gathered in Montevideo to participate in another march opposing UPM 2, the Paso de los Toros pulp mill plan in Uruguay. The march was organized by the National Coordination against UPM, which gathers over 60 organizations. “The contract that has been signed with UPM will damaged the economic, social and environmental interest […]
Read More(Photo: Planta de Celulosa Arauco en Mariquina | INDH) A field observation mission by the Chilean National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) revealed that Mapuche communities in the Mariquina commune, in the Los Ríos Region, face water shortages and pollution caused by the forestry industry, reports Rio en Linea. According to the article, the INDH […]
Read MoreThe Environmental Paper Network (EPN) has submitted a complaint to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on possible violations of disclosure requirements by Kiu Hung International Holdings Limited (Kiu Hung).[1] This company is interested in buying the Amazar pulp mill project located in the Zabaikalsky Province of Russia, also known as Polaris Project or Polarnaya. The […]
Read MoreOver one hundred Uruguayan, Finnish and International organizations have signed a joint statement against the plans of the Finnish pulp producer UPM to build a new pulp mill in Uruguay. The mill would have a capacity to produce 2.1 million tonnes of pulp a year. According to the statement, the megaproject will contribute to environmental […]
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