Press Release – For Immediate Release As Indonesian Forest Fires Bellow Smoke, U.S. Visit by Indonesian President Joko Widodo Presents a Crucial Leadership Opportunity on Climate Change, Deforestation and Investment Indonesia’s Fire Outbreaks Producing More Daily Emissions than Entire US Economy Washington, DC – Indonesian President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, will make his […]
Read MoreFor Immediate Release Boston, Vancouver, October 8, 2015 – Today at Sustainable Brands’ New Metrics conference, New Leaf Paper released a new Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) revealing significant environmental benefits of Reincarnation (100% PCW recycled coated paper) over alternatives made with virgin wood fibre. The study, conducted by SCS Global Services, is the first in the […]
Read MoreRolland Enterprises Inc., the Canadian-based producer of fine recycled paper, is today announcing its commitment to advance the protection of endangered forests, engage in R&D of alternatives to tree fibre and avoid all controversial forest fibre sources. With this policy, developed in cooperation with international environmental not-for-profit Canopy, Rolland sets a new standard for the […]
Read MoreFor immediate release Contact: Joshua Martin, Environmental Paper Network, 828-242-4238 Emeryville, CA – The North American Environmental Paper Network (EPN) today announced that SCS Global Services (SCS), a leader in third-party environmental and sustainability certification and standards development, will serve as the Program Operator for the development of Product Category Rules (PCR) Modules for Roundwood, […]
Read MoreInternational environmental not-for-profit, Canopy, has released a report that profiles the environmental performance of North America’s largest printers at Sustainable Brands, a conference where major print customers are gathered. “The Blueline Report 2015: North American Printers: Sustainability, Transparency, Paper Sourcing and Forest Conservation” ranks major printers on a set of twenty-nine key criteria and directs […]
Read MoreA new film produced by the European EPN and expressing a vision for the future of paper was launched today in advance of Paper World, a major gathering of the industry in Frankfurt, Germany. The film invites us all to look at this everyday material with new eyes, and transform the way we use it to […]
Read MoreFor immediate release November 19, 2014 Contact: Joshua Martin, Environmental Paper Network, 828-242-4238, joshua@environmentalpaper.org Asheville, NC – Environmental Paper Network Director Joshua Martin today issued the following statement on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) release of its proposed Accounting Framework for Biogenic CO2 Emissions and policy memorandum. “With today’s proposed framework, it appears that […]
Read More(Montreal) – Early this morning, 10 Greenpeace activists and volunteers transformed the iconic Mount Royal Cross into immense scales of justice representing the imbalance between the destructive practices of Canada’s largest logging company, Resolute Forest Products, and the defenseless Boreal Forest. Two giant scales were suspended from the arms of the cross: the heavy side […]
Read MoreVancouver, BC, February 4th, 2014: Today, Canopy is supporting Kimberly-Clark Corporation, global producer of Kleenex, Huggies and many other major brands sold in over 175 countries, on the release of a cutting-edge study of the existing and potential raw materials for their products. This comprehensive Lifecycle Analysis was authored by the Georgia Institute of Technology, with […]
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