EPN-International - Environmental Paper Network

Investors to reconsider financing Dutch RWE’s biomass and coal plants because of climate impacts, say environmental groups

Amsterdam/ Berlin, 15 February 2021 — The environmental and climate NGO, the Environmental Paper Network, [1] and Dutch campaigners have asked international financiers of RWE to reconsider their investment in the energy company’s Dutch coal and biomass-burning power plants, in light of the serious impacts on the climate, people and on forests. The letter was […]

#JOBS: EPN-International seeks candidates for Coordinator for the Finance Working Group

JUNE 2020 – THIS VACANCY HAS BEEN FILLED The Environmental Paper Network – International is looking for a Coordinator for the Finance Working Group. The vacancy will run until the position is filled. The Finance Working Group Coordinator will be a member of the EPN International Steering Committee, in charge of two working sub-groups, one […]

Amazar Pulp Mill: EPN submits complaint to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on incomplete disclosure by Kiu Hung

The 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 […]

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 […]

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The International part of Environmental Paper Network is recruiting a new coordinator to support the work of our growing membership across the globe to transform the paper and pulp industry.

100+ Organizations sign statement against new UPM mill in Uruguay

Over 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 […]

All Uruguayan political parties at debate question contract between government and UPM

During a roundtable debate with environmental experts from political parties that are participating in the upcoming national elections in Uruguay, all participants expressed their concerns regarding the contract signed between the Government and UPM, the multinational pulp and paper company based in Finland. In this controversial contract, UPM agreed to invest in a new large […]

Uruguayan citizens opposing UPM’s new pulp mill appeal to the Finnish government

In Uruguay, the citizen opposition to a new pulp mill planned by the Finnish paper giant UPM continues to grow. Last Friday, a citizen movement calling itself as the “national coordination of social organisations against UPM”, representing more than 40 organisations and campaigning under #UPM2NO, went to the Consulate of Finland in Uruguay. They handed […]

UPM’s Paso de los Toros mill poses financial and reputational risks

In Uruguay, protests are rising against the installation of UPM’s planned new pulp mill project in Paso de los Toros. There has been strong social criticism on the conditions of the contract that the government signed with UPM, on the expected impacts of the pulp mill as well as on the impacts of the associate […]