26/06/2024. Palas de Rei, Ulloa, Lugo, Galicia, España © Greenpeace/Pedro Armestre BankTrack’s Dodgy Deal launched today exposes the devastating environmental and social costs of the Altri-led mega-project. Santiago de Compostela, Spain — [30 May 2025] – A new profile of the controversial Gama pulp and paper factory proposed in Lugo, Galicia, has been published today […]
Read More52 Environmental Paper Network member organizations consider the investment not environmentally sustainable. In letters sent to the Environment and Industry authorities of the Xunta de Galicia and the Spanish Government, they warn of the serious negative impacts Altri’s new pulp mill would generate. November 28th, 2024 – Fifty-two environmental NGOs, part of the Environmental […]
Read MoreIn 2024 our planet has endured epic flooding in southern Poland, the southeastern US, and southeastern Spain, in addition to wildfires in Portugal and California. EPN-North America is headquartered in Western North Carolina, where Hurricane Helene recently left a devastating mark in the region. Our EPN-North America staff witnessed both heartbreaking losses and the resilience […]
Read MorePhoto: Drax wood pellet mill in Smithers, B.C., Canada Feb. 2022, photo credits to Bulkley Valley Stewardship Coalition by Ruairi Brogan, RSPB, United Kingdom, and active member of the Biomass Action Network team at the climate talks Question: Which source has the biggest share of renewable energy in OECD countries primary energy mix? Answer: […]
Read MoreThe mid year UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn takes place 3 June – 13 June 2024 and EPN Biomass Action Network is represented there by several network members. Once again we are bringing opposition to biomass burning as a climate solution to the UNFCCC. A group of campaigners from our network are attending the […]
Read MoreThe meetings of the Subsidiary Bodies to the Convention on Biodiversity (CBD) that took place in May in Nairobi ended in disarray, as Parties ended up in polarized discussions
about financial resources and other means of implementation for the historic Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) that was adopted in December 2022. As a
result, no agreement was reached on many issues.
On 28 November, Mr. Antônio Sapezeiro, leader of the Quilombola community of Nova Vista in Sapê do Norte, São Mateus, (Espirito Santo, Brazil) was filmed lying, immobilised and defenceless, on the concrete road, surrounded by Suzano security guards and military police officers called by them. This is not uncommon behaviour for Suzano, the biggest pulp […]
Read More“The huge expansion in so-called ‘modern’ biomass, doubling the current levels by 2030 and trebling them by 2050, is dangerous and unacceptable. It would exacerbate the climate crisis whilst also harming communities and biodiversity, and we already have numerous examples of its adverse impacts.” “Planning to ally energy production from biomass burning with carbon […]
Read MorePhoto credits: Tom Brennan – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – At COP28 civil society calls for exclusion of big biomass from global renewable energy target Large-scale biomass energy undermines international climate ambition at the United Nations summit 8 December, 2023 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates – As COP28 enters its second week, civil society organizations […]
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