‘Food estate’ projects eating up Indonesia’s forests: cascading threats on global environment and communities unveiled

by Sergio Baffoni | Mar 4, 2021 | Media Release, Pulp Finance, Responsible Virgin Fibre

Indonesia’s government recently announced plans for several new ‘food estate’ projects in Central Kalimantan, Papua and North Sumatra Provinces.  Despite their name, these developments are not about securing ‘food’: a new report reveals that, once in place, they would...

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

by Karen Vermeer | Feb 15, 2021 | bioeconomy, EPN-International, Media Release

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...

EPN and Leading Experts Launch SolvingPackaging.org to Accelerate the Shift to Sustainable Packaging

by Anne Pernick | Feb 10, 2021 | Media Release, Reducing Consumption

Asheville, NC – The Environmental Paper Network-North America launched SolvingPackaging.org today to accelerate the solutions to the packaging crisis. SolvingPackaging.org brings together the expertise of leading conservation, zero waste and public health...

Paper giant APP evades voluntary forest protection pledges, binding safeguards by banks and buyers needed

by Sergio Baffoni | Dec 3, 2020 | Media Release, Social Responsibilty

Jakarta/Berlin, 3 December 2020 –  New evidence indicates that buyers and banks’ ineffective due diligence systems have allowed Asia Pulp and Paper (APP), a global market paper supplier, to ignore its own forest conservation and human rights pledges, with the...

New evidence of profit shifting in Indonesia’s pulp sector

by Sergio Baffoni | Nov 3, 2020 | Media Release, Transparency and Integrity

Jakarta, Indonesia, 3 November 2020  – A coalition of 25 civil society groups published evidence (1) of pulp industry’s practices of profit shifting in order to reduce corporate tax bills (2). The organisations called on the Government of Indonesia to crack down on...

APRIL’s Links with Supplier in Borneo Undercut “No Deforestation” Pledge

by Sergio Baffoni | Oct 6, 2020 | Media Release, Responsible Virgin Fibre, Transparency and Integrity

Today a coalition of civil society organisations published a report about deforestation and peatlands degradation on the rainforest-rich island of Borneo in Southeast Asia. Based on analysis using satellite imagery, the report documents significant deforestation,...