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We need a global renewable energy target without big biomass energy expansion

[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″][et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] – For immediate release – Contact: Ms Peg Putt +61 418127580, email – peg.putt@gmail.com We need a Global Renewable Energy Target without Big Biomass Energy Expansion Dubai, 1 December 2023. As climate COP28 convenes in Dubai, the Biomass Action Network of EPN* warns that burning forest […]

Co-firing with biomass in Indonesia: Debunking Emission Reduction Claims

Download the Briefing here: Co-firing with biomass in Indonesia_English Version Co-firing coal with biomass in power stations is claimed by Indonesia’s state electricity company (PT PLN) to be a necessary part of the country’s transition to renewable energy. Currently, 52 coal power stations plan to co-fire with 5-10% biomass in order to meet the countries […]

Sumatra burning, the legacy of throw-away packaging

Fire brigade helicopters fly back and forth, but are unable to stop the columns of smoke rising from Ogan Komering Ilir, in the Oki district on the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. In the same district stands the massive paper mill of the paper giant Asia Pulp & Paper (APP), also called ‘Oki’, which is at […]

Prevention and reuse – the only solution to record levels of packaging waste.

As the European Union is experiencing a sharp rise of its packaging waste, with an all time record of 188.7 kg per capita, the European Commission has responded with a proposal for Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR). Among its goals, this proposal aims to: Prevent the generation of unnecessary packaging waste: reduce it in […]

Paper giant should lose green certification amid records on deforestation, social abuses and forest fires

Greenpeace Canada and Indonesia’s Auriga Nusantara have submitted a complaint to the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) calling it to acknowledge that Canadian forestry giant Paper Excellence and Asia Pulp & Paper (APP) are “two sides of the same coin.” FSC formally disassociated with APP in October 2007 citing “substantial, publicly available information that APP was […]

APP Sinarmas breaches its Forest Conservation Policy – a report by Greenpeace on 10th anniversary of APP’s commitment.

Ten years ago (2013) Asia Pulp and Paper (APP) Sinarmas published its Forest Conservation Policy (FCP), in which it pledged to halt deforestation and peatland conversion as well as to respect human rights while carrying out its activities. Yesterday (25 October), on the tenth anniversary of the APP declarations, Greenpeace International published a report analyzing […]

International Day of Action on Big Biomass 2023

It’s Time to Go Beyond Burning Forest Biomass for Energy! #BigBadBiomass On 19th October 2023 groups from six continents took a stand against large-scale forest biomass burning to produce energy, a false climate solution. The international day of action took place one month before COP 28 in Dubai, during which the Global Renewable Energy Target […]

International Day of Action on Packaging #MakeThrowAwayGoAway

European citizens want less waste, be it plastic or paper On September 12th 2023, European citizens and organizations from all over the world joined hands to say we need to Make Throw Away Go Away. From Spain to Poland to France, from Germany to Portugal to Sweden, from Indonesia to Italy, from Germany to Finland […]

Borneo communities want their land back!

Deforestation is expanding again in the tropical rainforests of Borneo. And indigenous peoples are not backing down from defending their land. The timber company PT Mayawana Persada is expanding its plantations in the forests of the Dayak indigenous people of Kualan Hilir. PT Mayawana Persada is linked to the conglomerate controlled by Sukanto Tanoto, which also owns APRIL […]